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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
 Lionsgate studio has released a clip for the upcoming remake of Bangkok Dangerous, the new crime thriller starring Nicolas Cage. Nic plays a contract killer who runs into trouble in Bangkok. The movie is directed by the Pang brothers, who directed the original Hong Kong version of the flick.
Movies Online
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
 Manchester City football club owner and former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra revealed recently that he believed flying rocks thousands of kilometers away are the direct cause of Thailand's political turmoil. The former premiere said the "headache" situation in Thailand would abate once Mars moves away from Saturn, on approximately July 2. Meanwhile, Luck Rekhanitade, an astrologist famous in Thailand for his predictions, foresees bloodshed on July 2. Throughout its orbital cycle, Mars is between 100 million and 380 million kilometers away from earth. Mars had no comment.
The Telegraph
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
 Warangkana Chomchuen of U.S. news broadcaster NBC said in this opinion piece that the tradition of giving a bride's family a dowry is changing in Thailand. Chomchuen said the Thai groom typically pays the "Sin Sod" of cash, jewelry, gold or property to prove to the bride’s family that he will be a good provider. In a marriage between two affluent families, the dowry can reach as high as $500,000. Chomchuen said that in recent times, young Thai grooms give dowries as a simple symbolic gesture, and then have the money returned to them by the bride's family after the wedding is over.
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Monday, 09 June 2008 |
A 40-year-old Thai man who was found dead from an apparent cobra attack was wearing a condom at the time. Wiroj Banlen was discovered along the side of the highway near Ayuthaya with cobra bites to his legs and backside. Investigators also found that Banlen was wearing a condom at the time, although no semen was found inside of the condom.
The Nation
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Sunday, 08 June 2008 |
 A Canadian pedophile suspect has pleaded not guilty to four charges of molestation and distribution of pornographic pictures of two Thai boys. Christopher Neil was caught after police computer experts unravelled his digitally scrambled face from images found on the internet. If found guilty the 32-year-old former teacher could spend up to 20 years in jail. The pictures are thought to have been taken in Vietnam and Cambodia, and thus fall outside Thai jurisdiction. However, after he fled to Thailand from South Korea, where he had been teaching English, two Thai brothers came forward and accused him of paying for sex when they were nine and 14 years old.
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