The Australian National University Za Kabuki Club has performed Japanese theatre in Canberra, around Australia and internationally for more than 40 years. It has described itself as the longest-running Kabuki group outside Japan and has been supported by the Embassy of Japan for more than two decades. About 30 of the 40 current members of…
Police in Laguna rescued a Chinese call center executive who was allegedly kidnapped in Makati City last Friday, Sept. 29, 2017. The victim was intercepted at a checkpoint in Calamba City (map) late Saturday night. WIKIPEDIA MAP SAN PEDRO CITY A Chinese call center executive was rescued by the police from his alleged abductors in…
These days volunteering to teach art classes at Bethlehem House keeps Robert Kreshl busy. But for 13 years Mr Kreshl was ruled by an addiction to poker machines. “It was a place for me to hide and hope to win enough money to get me out of trouble this vain, delusional hope,” he said.…
Ladbrokes is being investigated by the Gambling Commission over an allegation that staff watched a gambling addict take out payday loans to fund hundreds of pounds of bets on fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs). The claim, which comes as the government considers whether to slash the £100 maximum stake on the machines, drew fire from Labour…
Thailand. Roberto Trombetta/Flickr. CC (by-nc) A Thai woman sits alone behind the blinds in a brothel in a forest in Northern Denmark. Shes waiting for customers. Shes been selling sex in Denmark for two years now. She has no legal papers. Its hard and lonely work, but she earns well. When a car drives up…
A man convicted of murdering his friend in 2008 will spend at least two decades behind bars for the money-motivated Melbourne crime described as cold-blooded. Christopher John Lavery, 31, set up a meeting with 24-year-old cannabis dealer James Russouw. He knew Mr Russouw would be carrying about $13,000 in cash to buy drugs after the…
A man convicted of murdering his friend in 2008 will spend at least two decades behind bars for the money-motivated Melbourne crime described as cold-blooded. Christopher John Lavery, 31, set up a meeting with 24-year-old cannabis dealer James Russouw. He knew Mr Russouw would be carrying about $13,000 in cash to buy drugs after the…
A man who fatally stabbed his friend in the neck and set his body and car on fire in suburban Melbourne nearly 10 years ago is due to be sentenced on Thursday. Christopher John Lavery, 31, was found guilty in August of murdering 24-year-old James Russouw in March 2008. Lavery still maintains his innocence, standing…
Five people, including a prayer leader, were arrested on Friday evening for their suspected involvement in marrying off a five-year-old girl to a 15-year-old boy in Dadu’s Taluka Johi area allegedly to settle a gambling debt, police said. Shahid Ali, the father of the minor girl and a resident of Khandhani village, was amongst those…
Battle of the Sexes is a buoyant piece of propaganda about a buoyant, propagandistic episode in American culture: the 1973 tennis match between 55-year-old Bobby Riggs a self-proclaimed chauvinist pig who crowed that women shouldnt play on the same courts as men and 29-year-old Billie Jean King, a crusader for womens rights and a budding…