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• Why Do Men Buy Sex? (Scientific American)

  3 Dec 2008 at 12:09am
  Arthur is an alleged john, a man who patronizes prostitutes. After his arrest on September 5, 2008, a photograph of this 41-year-old appeared on the Web site of the Chicago Police Department. Arthur (not his real name) was far from the only person...
   

• Etihad Relief Flights From Thailand Continue (Zawya)

  2 Dec 2008 at 8:34am
  Abu Dhabi, 1 Dec. 2008 (WAM) - Etihad Airways is to operate its fourth special flight today between U-Tapao airport in Thailand to Abu Dhabi to help passengers who have been stranded in the country since the start last week's of civil unrest and t...
   

• Qatar Airways set to resume normal services to Bangkok (Zawya)

  4 Dec 2008 at 7:05am
  04 December 2008 Doha: Since the closure of Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi International Airport, Qatar Airways has laid on several special flights from U-Tapao International Airport, south of the Thai capital, to repatriate passengers stranded in Thailan...
   

• Sex workers take part in Tripura AIDS rally (New Kerala)

  2 Dec 2008 at 2:31am
  Agartala, Dec 2 : About 50 sex workers of different age groups got together at a rally organised here as part of the World AIDS Day celebrations, along with thousands of students and other people.
   

• Kuwait Airways resumes regular flights to Thailand on Friday (Zawya)

  3 Dec 2008 at 9:34am
  KUWAIT, Dec 3 (KUNA) -- Kuwait Airways Corporation (KAC) will resume regular flghts to the Thai capital Bangkok as of Friday.
   

• Asian Chronicles (Hartford Advocate)

  3 Dec 2008 at 12:36pm
  I have a friend who is currently trapped inside Thailand. He accompanied his sister, who's there on a government mission. Just prior to the headline-grabbing events in India, Thailand was also in the news. Protesters shut down the Bangkok Airport ...
   

• Cluster Bomb Ban (St. Petersburg Times)

  4 Dec 2008 at 4:06pm
  After more than two weeks of repeatedly failing to find a venue to hold a conference, new democratic movement Solidarity looks set to finally hold the event on Saturday.
   

• Chaos reigns at Thailand's tourist airlift (AFP via Yahoo! News)

  30 Nov 2008 at 3:29am
  Not even the dancing girls provided by a local hotel could cheer thousands of travellers as they tried to flee protest-hit Thailand through this Vietnam-era airbase.
   

• Commercial sex and dirty needles are main HIV risk (Radio Netherlands)

  1 Dec 2008 at 8:40am
  Targeting the general public in the fight against HIV/AIDS is useless, argues author Elizabeth Pisani. Instead, focus on commercial sex, intravenal drugs users, and gay men - that's where the risks are, she says.
   

• Arrest made in Madison 'bike rage' case (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

  4 Dec 2008 at 1:43pm
  An arrest has been made in the case of a Madison bicyclist who was beaten by another bicyclist after a confrontation Nov. 26, Journal Sentinel reporter Tom Held reports in his Off the Couch blog.