Hotels targeted for anti-child abuse software
BANGKOK, 23 September 2010 – Hotels and resorts are key targets in the latest move to introduce software to block child sexual abuse content on the internet in Thailand, a leading software provider NetClean stated yesterday.
Established in 1999, the Swedish-based company’s executives were in Bangkok to announce a partnership with local technology company, Asia Safe Tech. The Bangkok partner will distribute a suite of NetClean’s anti child sexual abuse software designed for companies, hotels, law enforcement and ISPs.
SAS will host mile-high gay wedding
STOCKHOLM, 1 September, 2010 – Scandinavian airline SAS said Wednesday it plans to host the first-ever in-flight gay wedding in December, and is searching for a suitable couple to walk down the airplane aisle.
“It will be a very traditional wedding,” SAS spokesman Anders Lindstroem told AFP. “There will be wedding cake and dancing in the aisles.”
SAS is accepting entries from gay couples who wanted to celebrate their nuptials mid-flight from Stockholm to New York, 6 December, with the winning entry will be chosen by an online vote.
Berry pickers ticked off over treatment
STOCKHOLM, 10 August 2010 – Around 120 seasonal berry pickers from Vietnam staged two demonstrations against their working conditions in Sweden on Tuesday, days after a similar protest by Chinese workers, officials said.
In one of the demonstrations, some 70 berry pickers locked six of their team leaders in a room at the former school where they were living.
“Six of them were locked in, they were Vietnamese foremen, and in addition to being locked in, they were beaten up and two of the six were tied up,” Hans-Aake Hedin of the Dalarna county police told AFP.
