🗽 A corpse-robbing prostitute couldn't spend the $45 she lifted from a guy crushed in Midtown by a truck because the bills were bloodstained. nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-c…

🇮🇩🇰🇭does this mean we hit peak canggu and everyone can leave now? phnompenhpost.com/lifestyle/siem…

🇸🇬 An old-school robbery – with a replica flintlock pistol – of $900 from a Katong barber shop, will earn the alleged holduppers, if found guilty, an old-school punishment – 12 strokes of the cane. todayonline.com/singapore/2-pe…

🇹🇭 The police colonel gunned down outside his Bangkok precinct is a polygamist; the shooter is pregnant, and one of his four wives. bangkokpost.com/thailand/gener…

🇮🇩 No hypnotism was used in the case of the Tanjung Priok housewife who stole a kid's motorbike to buy her blood pressure medicine, say police. poskota.co.id/2022/10/24/wan…

🇮🇩 At The Jakarta Post, pearls have been clutched. thejakartapost.com/opinion/2022/1…

🇮🇩 A kerambit and a sangkur were used by robbers to stab fatally an online taxi driver (in North Jakarta, grand theft auto) and 12-year-old schoolgirl (in Cimahi, cell phone). wartakota.tribunnews.com/2022/10/24/det… wartakota.tribunnews.com/2022/10/19/ung…

🇹🇭 For serving to students lunches of rice noodles with fish sauce, Somchao Sitthichane, the former director of Ban Thai Mai school, has been sentenced to 385 years imprisonment. bangkokpost.com/thailand/gener…

🇨🇳 "Keep a fast junk in the harbour with gold bars and a second set of papers." todayonline.com/world/chinas-w…

🇮🇩 Doing well with some lacerations, Arya Tri Putra, an angler of East Kutai, fell asleep while waiting for the fish to bite and awoke with his head in the jaws of a four-meter long crocodile. regional.kompas.com/read/2022/10/2…

🇸🇬 In Singapore, four husbands with wife-sharing fantasies met online and conspired to have their own partners sedated and raped. asiaone.com/singapore/4-me…

🇹🇭 Ms. Pukthong Kuthong, a wheelchair-bound seller of lottery tickets on Pattaya's streets, has forgiven the pistol-wielding gambler who robbed from her a phone, several amulets, and 4,000 baht. Still pressing charges, though. thepattayanews.com/2022/10/31/27-…

🇵🇭 Edilberta, a missing grandmother from Quezon City, has been found. Robbed and slain by a taxi driver–Cosio–who, police say, was also a gun runner, drug pusher, explosives seller, and kidnapper. newsinfo.inquirer.net/1729141/fwd-ca…

✍️ I've done three ghost book projects. Writing is the easy bit–but it takes a reporter long years to learn how to connect with sources to get their story. A spot-on accurate, warm, great, funny, and illuminating read by J.R. Moehringer via Jason Kottke newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

🇧🇦 In Bosnia and Herzegovina, police seized 124 kilograms of cocaine hidden in packages of bananas mistakenly delivered to a company that had neither ordered the cocaine, nor the bananas. occrp.org/en/daily/17724…

🤖 I fed ChatGPT about 30,000 words of my articles, and it said I wrote like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Raymond Carver, Pico Iyer, and Anthony Bourdain. So I've got that going for me. Which is nice.

Could someone please explain why the new-ish Indonesian province of Southwest Papua (Papua Barat Daya) is located in the ***northwest*** (barat laut) part of the island?

🇮🇩 “A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.” abc.net.au/news/2024-10-1…