Police issue warrant

Thai police hunting a Canadian pedophile suspect unmasked by a unique Interpol Internet appeal won an arrest warrant yesterday after a boy accused him of paying for a sex act.

Police said a second Thai teenager alleged Christopher Paul Neil paid him for sex in 2003, when he was nine, giving them grounds for an arrest warrant for the Canadian fugitive who fled a teaching post in South Korea last week.

"The court just approved the request to arrest this man who paid the boy 200 baht ($6) for (a sex act) at his Bangkok apartment," said Major General Wimol Powin, head of the child crime unit.

On Wednesday, another teenager alleged Neil molested him at his Bangkok apartment, photographed and paid him between 500 and 1,000 baht for each sex act when he was 14.

Pigs can fly

Well not quite - but they can jump through rings of fire and twirl on pedestals, as a new show at a Thai zoo proves.

Five pink and black piglets are the unlikely new stars of the performance, outbilling tigers and crocodiles in the Chinese year of the pig.

They also dance, pick up tennis balls and zig-zag through poles.

In five months of pig shows at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in the Thai resort province of Chon Buri, around 80 km east of Bangkok, not a loin of pork has been charred.

"We didn't think they could do anything like this. We thought pigs just lie there and do nothing. It's great!" said 28-year-old Dutch tourist Tanja van den Bogert.

(China Daily 10/19/2007 page10)