Entrapment!

Temasek Poly confirms arrest of staff on sex charge

SINGAPORE : In a press statement Thursday, Temasek Polytechnic confirmed that a member of its staff, Mr Darwis Rianto Lim, had been arrested in Bangkok for alleged involvement in a sex-related offence.

The polytechnic said the Singaporean had been suspended from his duties with immediate effect.

"As the matter is in the hands of the Thai police, the polytechnic has no further comments," it said.

According to a report, Mr Lim, 31, was arrested for trying to buy sex with underage boys over the Internet.

He had allegedly posted notices on the Web offering $329 for sex with a boy aged between 12 and 16.

He was caught at a Bangkok hotel by undercover police officers, who posed as sex agents, after he was shown three boys and paid for a 16-year-old, the paper said. -TODAY

Bangkok very happening hur...

1,000-year sentences in 17-year court case

Now we know we cannot go and steal the royal orders and decorations. 10+ generations on and you'll still be in jail. So girls arh. Don't see pretty pretty then go and take... you're on your own...

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BANGKOK, Apr 27 (TNA) – It has taken 17 years for the court to reach a verdict, and during that time eight of the original 16 defendants have passed away. 

But today the Bangkok Criminal Court finally found five men guilty of stealing royal orders and decorations, and handed down sentences of over 1,000 years each.

The case, which has been dragging on since 1988, involves the now-deceased deputy temple abbot and 15 other men accused of forging documents relating to temple donations in order to request royal decorations from the Ministry of Education, and of soliciting charitable donations for their own personal use.

Accused on 10 counts, the men faced prison sentences of over 1,000 years each, with one defendant facing a prison spell of 2,660 years. 

Thankfully for the defendants, eight of whom have already died since the case was first brought to the attention of the court 17 years ago, under the Thai law the maximum sentence that any will actually be made to serve is 50 years.

The profile of the case was raised by the fact that one of the defendants was assistant to the permanent secretary for education, whose roles was to verify the authenticity of documents relating to donations, and to determine whether the granting of royal orders was appropriate. 

Another defendant was a high-ranking official in the Prime Minister’s Office.

Since 1988, the defendants and accusers have been passing evidence back and forth to the court, and in the intervening years four of the attorneys and one of the judges working on the case have died. 

Over 100 witnesses have been interviewed, out of a total of 538 cited. (TNA)--E006

Revenge bombing in Bangkok feared

Police are on the lookout for a separatist who has arrived in Bangkok and may be preparing a car bomb in the capital on the first anniversary of the fatal crackdown on militants at Krue Se mosque in Pattani province on May 7th last year, a police source said.

A reliable source at the Metropolitan Police Bureau said yesterday that deputy Bangkok police chief Pol Maj-Gen Krisada Pankongchuen had a meeting with senior investigators from all sub-divisions of Bangkok police over the weekend and discussed the arrival of the suspected separatist terrorist.

With information from the National Intelligence Agency, Pol Maj-Gen Krisada distributed the photograph and profile of the suspect to his subordinates and told them to be on the alert.

As the suspect had no criminal record, Bangkok police could not take any legal action against him but would be on the lookout for any unusual moves, the source said.

He said the suspect speaks the central Thai dialect fluently and may be preparing a car bomb attack, particularly to take revenge for the Krue Se bloodshed.

200 COWS TO BE PUT UP FOR AUCTION TO CATER TO STRONG PUBLIC DEMAND

(Taken off the comfort delgro website)

18 April 2005 –

Since the “Cows on the Moove” Campaign was launched to commemorate the set up of our new advertising arm, Moove Media, ComfortDelGro has been getting many requests from members of the public for the cows to be put up for sale. Some want them for display in their gardens, others want to put the cows in their bedrooms, and yet others want them as gifts for friends. Some of these requests have come from as far away as the United States.

In response to such strong feedback, ComfortDelGro has decided to put 200 of the cows up for auction on our website (www.comfortdelgro.com) to raise funds for our adopted charity, the Home Nursing Foundation. In so doing, we will be able to raise money for a good cause.

To bid for the cows, simply log onto our website and fill in a simple form. The top 200 bids, as at 12 noon, 30 April 2005, will walk away with the cows. Winners will be notified by email.

It is our hope that by putting the cows up for auction, members of the public will not resort to “helping” themselves to the cows. In the one week since launch, as many as 30 cows have gone “missing”. We have even heard of an incident where a motorist got out of his car, walked to the grass verge, uprooted a cow and spent 5 minutes trying to squeeze it into his car boot with no success. In the end, he had no choice but to leave the cow on the grass verge.

Once again, we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their interest and warm reception to our cows. We promise more interesting advertising ideas will come from our new advertising arm, Moove Media.

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hurhurhur. i guess Mo and co are not alone. i really really want a pink cow.

Operation Cow : EXPOSED!

[while doing research on the DelGro cows and how to procure one, i stumbled upon this blog. Apparently this has been tried, and failed. But i think we can learn a few things from this blogger's experience.]

2 nights ago, Mo and I tried to steal a cow.
For those of you fortunate enough to be in some other part of the world, Comfort Delgro has planted wooden cows all over various plots of grass fields as part of some advertising campaign.

10.10pm: Mo and I arrive at Laurelwood Avenue along Sixth Avenue.
10:11pm: We get out and compare the size of the car door against ourselves. We figure the cow looks smaller than it is.
10.13pm: Climbed over railing, crawled and trudged through the grass.
10.16pm: A pink cow has been spotted. We estimate that at least the height will fit.
10.25pm: Cow is next to car.
10.26pm: Light on main road turns red. No traffic! Good time to shove cow in car
10.29pm: Cow is in car. BUT, head and tail stick out.
10.30pm: SHIT. No way I can close either door. Operation Cow FAILED.
10.32pm: Cow is out of car.
10.40pm: Cow is back to grass field.

Tip: Don't bother trying unless your car/lorry/van is bigger than the E class. A convertible might work better.

We are not the Tataps

Tatap is the name of our client. Client. Doesn't mean that next time my client called Marigold then I will be called Marigold right? No sense hur. Cow sense! Hur hur hur. Anyway, we are not the Tataps. This is a strong signal out to those that call us the Tataps. We are not the Tataps. Unlike the Borstals, the Giggly Girls and the Freaky Friends, we do not call ourselves the Tataps. We have names. We just don't have a name for our group. We don't want to have a name for our group. We do not aspire to be an organisation, we do not wish to associate ourselves with juveniles, nor juvenile delinquents by name. (Though we do aspire to take over A&G someday...) We are not faceless souls hiding behind a pseudo-name. We have names. Hear us roar.

*meow*

PS: We're also not called the CMI (Cannot Make It(s?)).

Heh.

Crim!

Re-organisation

Yes "XIAOHUI!ROCKS!", i agree that Tatap (poor man) is going to hang with our current levels of proficiency in the defence of provocation. However, we can still save him if we organise the team properly, establish a hierarchy in the litigation team. Ange you can head the team, with the rest in intermediate positions. I am resigned to making coffee, photocopying cases and binding our bundles of authorities. yippee.