Police in the North are investigating a Facebook photo of a 2-year-old girl smoking amphetamine with the assistance of unidentified adults. Pol Lt-Colonel Wibool Kedchat said yesterday that the consumption method was popular among adult users. There was a lighter designed to produce a special flame and a sheet of aluminium foil formed into the […]
The popular social networking site Facebook agreed to purchase the Instagram photo-sharing mobile app for US$1 billion in cash and stock Monday. The app, which can be used to apply faux-vintage filters to photographs, allows users to share photos with one another both directly and through posts to social networking sites. Instagram was founded less […]
Two Japanese hacker brothers arrested in Chiang Mai distributing nude pictures of Japanese celebrities on the internet. CHIANGMAI – March 6, 2012 [PDN]; Pol. Lt. Gen. Suthep Dechraksa in co-operation with the Japanese and the International police arrested two Japanese hacker suspects who were staying in Chiangmai province. Read more: Pattayadailynews.com Pattaya Daily News
A middle school teacher has been indicted after it was found that he possessed a memory card contained over 500 pictures secretly taken with a cellphone. The Seoul Central Prosecutor’s office on crimes against women and children announced on the 2nd that it had indicted 31-year-old Mr. Ahn on charges of secretly photographing women’s legs […]
A ‘Blue Marble’ image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA’s most recently launched Earth-observing satellite – Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012. The NPP satellite was renamed ‘Suomi NPP’ on January 24, 2012 to honor the late Verner […]
Photographs of naked women dealing cards and facilitating gambling have hit Thai Internet pages. The photographs show the women surrounded by gamblers with Thai signs explaining gambling rules and Thai money being used to bet at the tables. It is, therefore, believed the illegal casino is located in Thailand. These photographs have been widely forwarded […]
Indian authorities today declared an intent to force web companies to screen content for “offensive” and “blasphemous material”. The move follows failed talks yesterday with Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft. Communications Minister Kapil Sibal says “My aim is that insulting material never gets uploaded”, and that web firms “will have to give us the data, […]
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has asked His Majesty the King for a royal pardon for a mistake on her Facebook page. On Saturday her staff uploaded the wrong photo when she posted a Facebook message urging all Thais to join in the celebration of His Majesty’s birthday. Read more: The Nation
