Publishing the latest news from Bangkok, Phuket, Samui, Pattaya, Chiang Mai and Krabi in Thailand.http://www.asinah.net/index.php?thailandAsean News Networkhttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssenSun, 11 Jun 2006 01:09:47 +0700webmaster@asinah.net (Wolfgang Holzem)Sun, 11 Jun 2006 01:09:25 +0700webmaster@asinah.netFeedForAll v1.0 (1.0.2.0)http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/ann.gifhttp://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/Latest Thailand Headline News from Asean News Network8831In Thailand, a special commission on the violence in the Muslim-dominated south says that separatism and religious extremism are aggravating the strife but that the root causes are poverty, alienation and government neglect.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2006/06/poverty-in-thailand-blamed-for-unrest.htmlSun, 11 Jun 2006 01:09:25 +0700Thailand is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the coronation of its revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world's longest reigning monarch. Dozens of royal leaders from around the world are attending the celebrations, which include religious ceremonies, royal exhibits and lavish tributes to the Thai monarch. The most spectacular of these is a procession Monday night of 52 royal barges down Bangkok's Chao Praya River before the king and his guests.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2006/06/thailand-marks-kings-diamond-jubilee.htmlSun, 11 Jun 2006 01:07:35 +0700An international panel in Thailand has awarded the tsunami memorial design to a team of Spanish architects in a competition that had drawn entries from more than 40 countries. The memorial will honor the thousands of people who died in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2006/05/spanish-architects-win-tsunami.htmlMon, 22 May 2006 16:33:08 +0700A senior U.N. envoy has met with Burma's detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. The envoy is the first high-ranking U.N. official to be allowed into Burma in more than two years.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2006/05/senior-un-envoy-meets-burmas-detained.htmlMon, 22 May 2006 16:32:24 +0700Thaksin Shinawatra has been accused of toying with Thailand after announcing that he will chair a cabinet meeting, signalling a possible return to power two months after stepping down as prime minister.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2006/05/thaksin-toying-with-thailand.htmlMon, 22 May 2006 16:28:41 +0700U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan says he will send an envoy to East Timor where violence has escalated between government forces and disgruntled former East Timorese soldiers.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2006/05/un-sends-envoy-to-east-timor-as.htmlMon, 22 May 2006 16:27:44 +0700Floodwaters receded Thursday, leaving behind a sea of mud and debris in the worst-hit province of Uttaradit, where most of the casualties occurred. Workers are digging through mud up to two meters thick in search of missing villagers.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2006/05/48-dead-50-missing-in-thai-floods.htmlMon, 22 May 2006 16:27:16 +0700A court in Thailand has ruled last month's parliamentary elections unconstitutional, and has called for a new vote. Both the ruling party, which won the elections, and the opposition, which boycotted the poll, have said they will participate.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2006/05/thai-court-rules-april-elections.htmlSat, 13 May 2006 21:52:46 +0700In Thailand, security has been tightened in several southern provinces on the eve of the anniversary of a clash between security forces and Muslim separatists in which more than 100 people were killed. Two years after the clashes, human rights groups say the situation has not improved, though the Thai government says progress has been made in stabilizing the region.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2006/04/human-rights-groups-see-no-improvement.htmlSun, 30 Apr 2006 16:10:38 +0700The resignation of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra Tuesday ended the tenure of the longest-serving civilian prime minister in modern Thai history. It was a development that few would have predicted one year ago, following his landslide re-election.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2006/04/thai-pm-thaksin-steps-down-but-remains.htmlThu, 6 Apr 2006 13:19:57 +0700We have launched today our new Thailand Travel Guide including a small hotel directory. We hope you will visit our Thailand Travel Guide.http://www.asinah.netWed, 5 Apr 2006 10:07:36 +0700Economists are warning that corruption in Thailand is on the rise, and may threaten the country's democratic development. An analyst's report has raised concerns that powerful businesspeople in the government may be directing public policy in their own interests.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/12/economists-warn-corruption-on-rise-in.htmlThu, 12 Jan 2006 18:12:13 +0700The announcement by Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra of a plan to revitalize the country’s “Bangkok Process” in dealing with Rangoon may scuttle Asean’s recent moves to instigate change in the military dictatorship, according to several Southeast Asian experts.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/12/new-bangkok-process-raises-criticism.htmlThu, 12 Jan 2006 18:11:48 +0700A leading meteorologist, who warned a tsunami could strike Thailand seven years before one hit, said Tuesday that coastal hotels and resorts are still unprepared for another killer wave.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/12/tsunami-whistle-blower-says-thailands.htmlThu, 12 Jan 2006 17:59:09 +0700Chief negotiator Nitya Pibulsongkram told the forum that the Thai side has made it clear to the US that the outcome of this round of talks must not have any impact on Thailand’s list of essential medicine, and that the US acknowledged Thai concerns about pharmaceutical patent protection.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2006/01/thai-us-fta-negotiations-no-impact-on.htmlThu, 12 Jan 2006 17:40:28 +0700Former Thai Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh on Monday urged the government to opt for a political rather than a military approach in resolving violence in the Muslim-majority region, saying only such an approach could win the hearts and mind of local people.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2006/01/former-thai-pm-urges-political.htmlThu, 12 Jan 2006 17:36:13 +0700Rohan Gunaratna, a security analyst at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies (IDSS) in Singapore said Thursday that Bangkok could face a terrorist attack within a year as tension rises between Muslim and Buddhist communities in Thailand's south and suggested that the Thai government needed to expand its intelligence network, engage Thailand's Muslim political leadership and work with neighbouring Malaysia to stop the spread of cross-border terrorism.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2006/01/southern-violence-wont-spread-to.htmlThu, 12 Jan 2006 17:30:44 +0700I want to address my fellow Muslims in the Kingdom of Thailand who do not support violence, faithfully practice Islam, know it well and truly study our religion.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/09/to-my-fellow-muslim-brothers-sisters.htmlFri, 30 Sep 2005 18:09:50 +0700This week, Thai creations were the center of attention at the country's first Fashion Week - with hundreds of models showing off clothes designed in Thailand.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/08/thailand-hopes-fashions-will-put.htmlSun, 21 Aug 2005 15:08:38 +0700Thailand's energy users are beginning to feel the full impact of rising global oil prices, and economists warn the effect of energy costs could hurt the country's economy. The Thai government is calling for consumers to cut their use of oil products.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/07/thai-consumers-feel-impact-of-global.htmlFri, 29 Jul 2005 12:54:09 +0700In response to another major earthquake near the India's Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean (about 690 miles southwest of Bangkok, Thailand), the government agencies briefly issued tsunami warnings. It was later determined that the type of earthquake that hit, although strong, does not spawn large tsunami.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/07/tsunami-warning-briefly-issued-for.htmlMon, 25 Jul 2005 12:26:13 +0700Thai authorities allege Vo placed a backpack full of explosives in front of the embassy in Bangkok and threw over the compound's fence a box that contained 11 pounds of diesel fuel and ammonium nitrate. Notes were attached to both devices, which were supposed to be activated by cell phones, prosecutors said. Calls were made to the rigged phones, but the bombs didn't go off.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/07/us-terrorist-fights-extradition-to.htmlWed, 13 Jul 2005 09:57:59 +0700From the point of the government, maybe they can begin with legalising the ponoh schools and allocating the education budget fairly and equally to all Thai citizens, based on enrollment. This, I think, is easy for this government to do. I believe that our government has many plans and I hope they will contribute towards bringing peace soonest to our country.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/07/seperatism-isnt-way-forward.htmlWed, 13 Jul 2005 09:55:57 +0700Three wildlife smugglers have been captured by police with tiger carcasses and pangolins in Thailand's northeastern province of Udonthani, local press reported Sunday. The three suspects were nabbed on Saturday at one of the province's bypass intersection, local police was quoted by The Nation newspaper as saying.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/07/wildlife-smuggling-gang-busted-in.htmlMon, 4 Jul 2005 08:05:51 +0700No area was harder hit by the Dec 26 tsunami than the tranquil strip of beach known as Khao Lak. More than half of the total casualties came from this area, including hundreds of foreign tourists who had looked to Khao Lak as an escape from the larger, more developed beaches of Phuket, around 80 kilometres to the south.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/06/fresh-start-on-khao-lak.htmlSat, 2 Jul 2005 19:50:59 +0700Thai military officials say they have refused a group of Cambodian Muslims entry into the country for security reasons amid unrest in the country's Muslim-dominated south.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/12/thai-authorities-refuse-entry-to.htmlThu, 12 Jan 2006 18:17:08 +0700Across southern Asia, victims of last December's tsunami are still trying to put their lives back together six months after the giant waves devastated their communities. In Thailand, where more than 5,000 people were killed, including 2,000 foreign tourists, some communities are beginning to recover.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/06/southern-thailand-rebuilds-from.htmlTue, 21 Jun 2005 08:22:55 +0700I'd have to say graduation was the most interesting and memorable thing that happened to me. It marked an end to my youth and the long process of my official education. It was the last time that I got to see each and every one of my dear colleagues before we said our goodbyes and entered into a life of working and self-education.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/04/khun-chananporn-rosjan-is-miss.htmlThu, 26 May 2005 14:41:10 +0700Miss Thailand Universe 2005, Chananporn Rosjan, was last night selected to be the best among more than 80 world beauty queens of this year's Miss Universe contest when wearing a national costume.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/05/miss-thailand-universe-wins-top-prize.htmlThu, 26 May 2005 14:03:46 +0700Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra will use the 6th Global Forum on Reinventing Government to lobby support for Deputy Prime Minister Surakiart Sathirathai's candidacy for the job of UN secretary-general.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/05/thai-pm-to-lobby-for-surakiart-for-un.htmlTue, 24 May 2005 12:04:45 +0700Even if in the absence of any announced "ready, get set, go", the race for candidates to succeed Kofi Annan in the position of the No.1 chief of the United Nations has started nonetheless. No one yet knows exactly who are the favourites and the dark horses, or even who exactly is in the race.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/05/get-behind-surakiart.htmlSun, 22 May 2005 16:11:38 +0700If the government of Thailand does not try a new approach in dealing with a Muslim insurgency, Muslim radicals from elsewhere in Southeast Asia may join in the fighting. That warning comes in a new report issued Wednesday by the International Crisis Group.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/05/crisis-group-calls-on-thai-government.htmlFri, 20 May 2005 18:05:09 +0700Another 22 Thais involved in a trade show in the Myanmar capital of Yangon were evacuated home safely Sunday night after a series of three bomb blasts rocked the city on Saturday, leaving several people dead and hundreds injured.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/05/thais-in-myanmar-return-home-safely.htmlWed, 18 May 2005 09:34:01 +0700Following a recent Board of Directors Meeting of The Dusit Thani PLC it was announced that Thanpuying Chanut Piyaoui will assume the new position as Honorary Chairperson of the company; and Chatri Sophonpanich will become Chairperson.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/05/new-chairperson-for-dusit-thani.htmlSun, 15 May 2005 18:10:59 +0700Thailand's prime minister has promised new legislation respecting human rights will replace martial law in the country's troubled south. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra also says the new laws will protect officials in the area, where sporadic violence has killed more than 600 people in the past 16 months.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/05/thai-government-examines-measures-to.htmlThu, 12 May 2005 16:24:31 +0700Diethelm Events has been appointed the Official Ground Handling Agent for the Miss Universe 2005 pageant, to be held in Bangkok this month from 29 to 31 May. Diethelm Events will provide transportation, sightseeing excursions and pre- and post event tours for the Miss Universe contestants from 88 nations taking part in this world-renowned annual pageant.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/05/diethelm-events-has-been-appointed.htmlThu, 12 May 2005 18:40:15 +0700The Transport Ministry has threatened the low-cost airline Phuket Air with the temporary suspension of operations unless is resolves safety breaches which have led to bans in both the UK and the Netherlands.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/05/phuket-air-threatened-with-severe.htmlMon, 9 May 2005 12:42:02 +0700Thailand's National Human Rights Commission has condemned the Thai security forces' handling of a protest in southern Thailand last year that led to the deaths of more than 80 Muslim protesters.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/05/thai-rights-activists-denounce.htmlThu, 12 May 2005 16:35:44 +0700Malaysia has reiterated that it has no involvement in supporting Thailand's southern insurgency, Defence Minister Gen.Thammarak Isarangura Na Ayutthaya announced today.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/05/malaysia-distances-itself-from.htmlFri, 6 May 2005 21:36:03 +0700Thai army chief Pravit Wongsuwan announced the transfer of the three generals to inactive posts after a Defense Ministry inquiry found they had been negligent in the incident. He said the generals ...http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/03/thai-muslim-leaders-criticize-removal.htmlWed, 18 May 2005 09:41:05 +0700Thailand has announced that the bird flu outbreak in Thailand is under control for the first time since last July.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/05/thailand-announces-control-of-bird-flu.htmlFri, 6 May 2005 18:39:09 +0700The 4th Army Area Command today reiterated its commitment to help all those killed or injured at the hands of the security services in two incidents in Thailand's deep South last yearhttp://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/05/army-stresses-commitment-to-help-all.htmlWed, 4 May 2005 09:50:55 +0700Police in Finland have arrested a Finnish man for allegedly sexually abusing more than 400 Thai boys over the last 15 years, the country's largest case in terms of the number of victims.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/04/finnish-man-suspected-of-sexually.htmlWed, 4 May 2005 09:51:09 +0700A bomb exploded in Thailand's mainly Muslim south Sunday, killing two policemen and wounding three other people. The blast occurred near a border checkpoint in the district of Sungai Kolok in Narathiw...http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/04/bomb-kills-2-wounds-3-in-southern.htmlWed, 4 May 2005 09:51:11 +0700Thai Airways International Public Company Limited (THAI) and Singapore Airlines were at loggerheads today following an incident yesterday afternoon in which two planes clipped wings ....http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/04/airlines-in-dispute-over-airport.htmlWed, 4 May 2005 09:51:15 +0700Speaking in response to moves by the Singaporean government to open two casinos, Mr. Thaksin said that even though all of Thailand's neighbours had casinos, Thailand itself would not follow suit.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/04/pm-rules-out-jumping-on-casino.htmlWed, 4 May 2005 09:51:20 +0700Burma's military rulers have asked Thailand to send an estimated one million immigrant workers home so they can be officially documented by Rangoon.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/04/burma-asks-thailand-to-send-immigrant.htmlWed, 4 May 2005 09:51:23 +0700The Thai prime minister has announced a partial troop withdrawal from Thailand's restive southern provinces. The conciliatory move marks a turnaround in the government's much criticized hard-line..http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/03/thai-leader-rethinks-tough-security.htmlWed, 4 May 2005 09:51:25 +0700An armed attack on a train carrying police and troops in Southern Thailand has left more than a dozen people wounded. The attack appears to represent an escalation in the violent tactics used by ....http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/03/attack-on-thailand-train-injures-more.htmlWed, 4 May 2005 09:51:29 +0700Aung San Suu Kyi to Get UN Awardhttp://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/03/aung-san-suu-kyi-to-get-un-award.htmlWed, 4 May 2005 09:51:33 +0700The Thai government hopes to drive economic growth over the next four years with spending on infrastructure projects. But analysts are worried about corruption, and the government's ability to finance...http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/02/thai-prime-minister-looks-to.htmlWed, 4 May 2005 09:51:35 +0700Former US presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush arrived on Thailand's Phuket Island Saturday - the first stop on their tour of regions devastated by December's tsunami.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/02/former-presidents-clinton-and-bush-in.htmlWed, 4 May 2005 09:51:37 +0700The death toll from a powerful car bomb in Thailand has risen to six, with at least 40 others injured, some seriously. Police say the explosion Thursday occurred outside a hotel in the bar district of...http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/02/six-dead-in-thai-car-bombing.htmlWed, 4 May 2005 09:51:40 +0700I'd have to say graduation was the most interesting and memorable thing that happened to me. It marked an end to my youth and the long process of my official education. It was the last time that I got to see each and every one of my dear colleagues before we said our goodbyes and entered into a life of working and self-education.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/04/khun-chananporn-rosjan-is-miss.htmlThu, 14 Apr 2005 14:01:37 +0700Dr Pornthip Rojanasunan isn't interested in politics. What she really wants to do is teach little children. Dr Pornthip, 50, shot to fame in recent years when she proved successfully that police interpretations of two high-profile criminal cases were wrong. More recently, she stayed at a Buddhist temple in Phang Nga for six weeks to identify the bodies of tsunami victims and return them to their families.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/02/justice-minister-no-kindergarten.htmlMon, 21 Feb 2005 15:43:07 +0700Members of Thailand's minority Muslim community - based almost exclusively in the country's southern provinces - have been at loggerheads with Bangkok for decades.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/02/thailands-restive-south.htmlThu, 17 Feb 2005 09:52:30 +0700Prime Minister of Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra, appears likely to be returned to office, making history as the first elected Thai PM to win a second term. If exit poll indications are borne out, his Thai Rak Thai (Thais Love Thais) party will win in a landslide, to become the first single party majority in Thailand's relatively short history of parliamentary democracy.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/02/thaksin-shinawatra-leads-party-to.htmlMon, 7 Feb 2005 15:42:00 +0700My son told me - as a sure thing - he saw her leaving the bungalow (probably injured with glass pieces in the abdomen) through the back door (facing the hill), while he was hanging by one hand from the roof wall (the roof was already detached from the house). He said the water level was around my wife's abdomen at that time for a short while. This happened most probably between the first and the second waves. Not sure, though.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/01/tsunami-in-thailand-missing-person.htmlWed, 19 Jan 2005 15:41:05 +0700Upset by their failure to help identify bodies - These dead people are still in uniforms with hotel names and logos clearly on them. Some still with room keys tightly grasped in their hands. With this material evidence, the corpses can be easily identified but nobody has shown up to claim them,'she said.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/01/khunying-porntip-chides-hotel-bosses.htmlWed, 19 Jan 2005 11:19:27 +0700We also gave the full list to Khaosan Police Station in Banglampu, Bangkok as Khaosan Road is very popular with backpackers and many of those backpackers that survived the waves returned back to Bangkok's Khaosan Road.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2005/01/list-of-germans-missing-from-khao-lak.htmlSun, 9 Jan 2005 15:39:29 +0700Anand Panyarachun attended the Surasak School and Amnuaysilp School and later joined the Bangkok Christian College. When he was 16 years old, Anand was sent to Dulwich College in London, where he was granted the position of of House and School Prefect. Besides being a part of the School Choir and the Squash team, Anand was also named the Captain of the School Tennis team.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2004/02/biography-of-anand-panyarachun.htmlSat, 7 Feb 2004 15:35:26 +0700More than 11,000 people have been killed in South and Southeast Asia Sunday, after one of the largest earthquakes in a century struck off the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Most of the dead were victims of a tidal wave that spread out across the Indian Ocean, devastating coastal communities as far as Sri Lanka and Thailand.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2004/12/90-asian-earthquake-tsunamis-kill.htmlSun, 26 Dec 2004 15:38:39 +0700The Thai government says it will cooperate with a U.N. investigation into a violent clash in the Muslim South last month that left at least 87 people dead. The comment followed remarks by Thailand's king warning the country may fall into ruin unless the violence is stopped.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2004/11/thailand-to-cooperate-with-un-probe.htmlThu, 18 Nov 2004 11:20:51 +0700ASEAN leaders meeting in Laos discussed this year's violence in Thailand's mostly Muslim south, but did not address Burma's human rights record, despite news it is extending the detention of its top pro-democracy leader.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2004/11/asean-takes-up-violence-in-thailand.htmlFri, 19 Nov 2004 15:37:43 +0700Reports from Burma say Prime Minister Khin Nyunt has been removed from his position and placed under house arrest. Officials in Thailand first announced the development Tuesday in Bangkok.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2004/10/reports-burmas-prime-minister-fired.htmlTue, 19 Oct 2004 15:36:34 +0700Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has admitted that a prominent Muslim lawyer defending suspected Islamic militants was kidnapped by policemen. For weeks the government had denied accusations from rights groups that the police had anything to do with the activist lawyer's disappearance.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2004/04/missing-lawyer-abducted-by-police.htmlThu, 8 Apr 2004 09:28:40 +0700Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has set a deadline of this week for investigators to solve the case of a respected Muslim human rights lawyer feared kidnapped just over two weeks ago. Analysts fear the lawyer's disappearance and a Saturday night bomb attack indicate the simmering tensions in Thailand's largely Muslim southern provinces are far from over.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2004/03/thai-pm-orders-further-probe-into-fate.htmlSun, 28 Mar 2004 09:25:57 +0700Thailand began Monday repatriating more than 600 illegal Cambodian migrants as part of a larger campaign to clean up Bangkok's streets in time for next month's meeting of the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Bangkok. Three C-130 cargo planes are taking two trips each to return the first batch of 621 illegal migrants to the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, police Colonel Watchara Sungwornyothin said, noting that nearly 50 illegal Cambodia migrants were being detained daily.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2003/09/thailand-to-clean-up-bangkok-streets.htmlMon, 29 Sep 2003 09:15:12 +0700Thailand's foreign ministry will brief diplomats Monday over the government's current war on drugs as international concern grows over allegations of extra-judicial killings. But Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra says the campaign will continue even as the death toll climbs above 1,000.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2003/03/concern-grows-over-extra-judicial.htmlSat, 1 Mar 2003 09:03:44 +0700Former police commissioner Lt-General Chalor Kerdthet was yesterday sentenced to two life terms in prison after being convicted of abetting in the brutal double murder of a mother and her 8-year-old son in 1994.http://www.aseannewsnetwork.com/2002/12/saudi-jewel-case-chalor-given-life.htmlSat, 28 Dec 2002 15:34:35 +0700