– PARIS – Is a 13-year-old old enough to agree to sex with an adult? That’s a question France is asking as the government prepares to...
– BANGKOK – The chief of the Mental Health Department said on Saturday that children who are bullied in school can develop depression and become paranoid....
– BANGKOK – Demand for sex with children is an emerging cause of human trafficking in the Mekong region, the United Nations said on Thursday, as...
– BANGKOK – Child advocacy networks have urged the government to introduce a ban on corporal punishment of children to avoid inflicting long-time mental suffering...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – The general sat on a plastic lawn chair in the garden of his mother’s home, the scent of tropical blooms filling the...
PHNOM PENH – A 53-year-old Dutch Old Catholic church official has been arrested in Cambodia on suspicion of producing child pornography involving young teenage boys....
BANGKOK – Thailand’s National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) said on Monday that violence against women and children in Thailand was committed by people they...
– SIEM REAP – A Cambodian court has sentended Dutch National Sebastian Reuyl, 44, for five years for sexually abusing children over a decade, after several...
. . MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed off on a law that partially decriminalizes domestic abuse, a measure that sailed easily through the...
. . Child slavery, especially in the form of child sex tourism, is a slowly unfolding disaster. Thailand’s resort town of Pattaya has more expat paedophiles...
. . ISTANBUL – Thousands of angry protesters marched through Istanbul’s Kadikoy district, Saturday, to express their disagreement with a proposed bill that would overturn men’s...
. . Registering Street Beggars . The Thai government recently passed a law revising Thailand’s laws on begging in public areas. The new law replaces the...
. . CHIANG MAI – British Expat Fabian Frederick Blandford, 64, who is a former ordained monk, father of two and long term resident of Chiang...
. . ATHENS – Charities claim youngsters and women are too afraid to leave tents after dark at government-run camps, children as young as seven have...
. . MOSCOW – Women across Russia and Ukraine are uniting and speaking out – for once, not about the tensions between their two nations, nor...
. . JAKARTA -The Indonesian president, Joko Widodo, signed a decree on Wednesday authorizing chemical castration for convicted child sex offenders and requiring those released on...
. . BANGKOK – The sexual abuse of children by tourists and travellers is a growing scourge around the globe that has largely managed to outwit...
. . YANGON – Myanmar’s military has released 46 children and young people from service, the United Nations said in a statement on Monday, in its...
. Teachers Canadian Neil Bantleman and Indonesian Ferdinant Tjiong – Photo AP . JAKARTA – Indonesia’s top court overturned the acquittals of a Canadian and an...
. . UDON RATCHATHANI – Police have detained Australian National Peter Dundas Walbran, a former head of the Australian International School in Jakarta, with a warrant...