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) Finance minister to discuss capital flow at ASEAN +3 meeting
BANGKOK, Oct 22 (TNA) � Thai Finance Minister Chalongphob Sussangkarn is set to unofficially discuss a plan to contain large-scale capital inflows and outflows in ASEAN with his counterparts this week.A ministry source said the minister would attend an ASEAN investment and development 'road show' in New York on Tuesday after participating in the meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
Thai officials believe it is perfect timing for combined investment promotion road shows by ASEAN, in order to attract foreign investors to invest directly and indirectly in all of the region's economies.
The source said Thailand will give priority to investments in the metropolitan Bangkok electric mass transit projects and joint investment with the private sector in other mega-projects. More>> - (
) Arrest puts end to 3-year global manhunt for suspected pedophile
BANGKOK, Thailand -- A three-year global manhunt for a Canadian schoolteacher suspected of sexually abusing Asian boys ended Friday when police raided a house in northeastern Thailand -- off the usual tourist trail -- and arrested Christopher Paul Neil.Police tracked Neil to the house in Nakhon Ratchasima province that he shared with a Thai transvestite friend whose phone calls were traced by authorities.
Neil, who surrendered peacefully, was found though high-tech police work that relied on digitally unscrambled photos and tips from the public after an unprecedented worldwide appeal via the Internet.
"I think he knew we were coming," said police Col. Paisal Luesomboon, who was on the five-member police team that made the arrest. "He knew that there was an arrest warrant issued and that his face was posted everywhere."
He said Neil, 32, acknowledged being the man they were seeking but didn't comment on whether he was the person depicted in about 200 Internet photos having sex with a dozen different boys between the ages of 6 and 12. More>>
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) In Tomorrow's Paper
BANGKOK, Thailand � A Canadian schoolteacher suspected of having sex with dozens of young boys will be held in a Thai jail for at least 12 days pending a trial on molestation charges, a court ordered Saturday.Christopher Paul Neil, one of the world�s most wanted alleged pedophiles, denied he did anything wrong following his arrest Friday at a house in Thailand�s rural northeastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima, which he rented with a Thai transvestite friend whose phone calls police had traced.
A judge in the Bangkok Criminal Court signed a police order to extend his detention to 12 days, and could move later to keep him behind bars up to 84 days. After the closed-door hearing, Neil was incarcerated at the Bangkok Remand Prison.
Neil 'stressed out'
Neil, 32, arrived in court wearing a red-striped T-shirt, baseball cap and sunglasses. More>>
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) Internet predator suspect arrested in Thailand
BANGKOK, Thailand A Canadian schoolteacher suspected of sexually abusing boys was arrested in rural Thailand and charged today after an international manhunt that relied on digitally unscrambled photos and tips from the public.Police found 32-year-old Christopher Paul Neil after tracing the phone call of a Thai acquaintance who then led them to the suspect, officials said at a news conference in Bangkok where Neil also was present.
"I think he knew we were coming," said police Col. Paisal Luesomboon, who was in the five-man team that made the arrest in the northeastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima. "He knew that there was an arrest warrant issued and that his face was posted everywhere."
Driven to Bangkok, about 130 miles away, Neil was in handcuffs and had a blue shirt draped over his head as officers led him into national police headquarters. More>>