Topless Girls With A Cause – Security Puts A Stop To Demonstration

A topless demonstration in Ukraine got ugly outside the Georgian embassy when a security guard fought with half-naked women on Monday.

The shirtless ladies from the women’s activist group FEMEN were part of a larger protest in Kiev criticizing the Georgian government for jailing three photographers accused of spying, the Guardian reported.

A security guard shoved FEMEN members and kicked a photographer taking their picture before a policemen separated them, as seen in a video posted on Animal New York.

It was a busy week for the women of FEMEN who just can’t seem to keep their shirts on. Last week, the group splashed around in a Kiev fountain to draw attention to expected hot-water shortages during the Euro 2012 soccer tournament which will be held in Ukraine and Poland.

Najib speaks with a forked tongue, M'sian Christians warn Pope

In a telling sign of the changes sweeping Malaysian society, a group of Malaysian Christians warned the Pope and other foreign leaders against Prime Minister Najib Razak's forked tongue and his growing disconnect with reality.

"The conduct of Prime Minister Najib and his Barisan Nasional government at home, at least recently, has been anything but moderate! In our Malaysian colloquialism, we might say of the prime minister that dia cakap tak serupa bikin, meaning that ‘he does not do what he preaches’, or that ‘he does not walk the talk’!,"  the group said in a letter to Pope Benedict XVI.

"In this regard, we are very concerned about the timing of this official visit which follows immediately after recent repression of civil society groups which are fighting for clean and fair elections. We are also deeply concerned that some top leaders of this democratic initiative have been painted unjustly as ‘anti-Islam’ by the authorities without any basis whatsoever."

The group of 365 Catholics and other Christians in Malaysia, including a string of priests and religious leaders, signed the joint letter expressing their concern over Prime Minister Najib Razak’s official visit to the Vatican on 18 July 2011 in view of recent developments in the country.

The letter also highlighted concerns about the lack of democratic rights and religious freedom in Malaysia to enable the Pope to “understand more critically and comprehensively the political and social realities” lest the pontiff is “presented with a one-sided view of developments” in the country.

Conversations with a sex worker

A young Cambodian relates the appalling events that led her into prostitution.

It was the sort of day that made you want to really seize all opportunities. There was a beautiful blue sky dotted with white wisps of clouds and the kind of sun benevolent enough not to burn your skin. It was 8am in Cambodia and the adventure at hand was a trip through Angkor Archaeological Park. My guide? A 22-year-old sex worker named Samnang, the Cambodian word for Good Fortune.

“You can call me Sam,” she said, smiling shyly.

I had met Sam two days earlier, by accident, when I got lost meandering through the streets of Siem Reap. At first, she tried giving me directions, but when I failed to comprehend, mostly because I’m not good with maps, Sam offered to walk me back to where I was staying during my week-long visit.

When we arrived, I asked Sam to have dinner with me, but she declined, saying she had to work. When I asked what she worked as, she explained in halting English that she was a sex worker. I tried to sound casual, telling her why I was in Cambodia and that I was looking for someone who could show me around. I asked if she would be interested.

And so, two days later, on a gorgeous day in Siem Rep, Sam takes me on a journey very different from the one I had in mind.

As we walk down Sivatha Road, we talk about our lives and I ask her if she would tell her story for me to share with others. She agrees but asks that no photographs be taken. We find a restaurant and seat ourselves for a meal. Spicy chicken rice at 8.30am is indeed the breakfast of champions.

The Journey Begins

Sam’s life began as a rather happy one, but it quickly turned into a horrific series of events. Born in Vietnam, she went to Thailand when she was 17 in search of a better life. She found a job as a waitress. One day, she met a foreigner named Gerard who was very pleased to learn that she was a Vietnam native. He was a businessman who was enthusiastic about importing cheap scooters into Vietnam.

After several lunches and dinners, Sam agreed to take Gerard to Vietnam to help him start his business. Felicitations of love followed soon after, and a promise of marriage was extended. One thing led to another and Sam found herself pregnant two months into the relationship. The business was also warming up. But Gerard’s ardour toward her cooled drastically.

“He began ignoring me and wasn’t shy about doing it openly,” she shares. Gerard also turned out to be a paedophile, having his way with many underage girls. “In Vietnam, if you have money, you can get away with anything; you just pay the police to keep them quiet,” Sam says, frowning. I tell her that this happens around the world.

Gerard left Sam in her third month of pregnancy. “I tried asking him to help me and the baby with some money, but he said it’s not his problem anymore,” she says, her voice thick with emotion. “He told me that I should get an abortion, which he was willing to pay for. I didn’t want to do this and I had nowhere to go. One day, while I was looking for odd jobs, I met an old friend who was working as a seamstress. She took me in without question.”

On the Run

Months later, Sam gave birth to a beautiful girl and named her Maelea, which means Flower Garland. Soon after this, she found a job as a cleaner and life seemed better for a while.

About a year later, while she was out with her baby, Sam bumped into Gerard at the local market. The man who initially wanted to get rid of the baby now wanted her for himself when he saw how cute she was. “I refused of course,” Sam says. “I knew what he did with the other young girls. I didn’t trust him anymore and I was afraid that he would hurt my baby.”

But Gerard got his way through his connections and by using corrupt officials. But after a month, Sam got Maelea back with the help of a visiting social worker from the United States.

“I cried for days after I saw what he had done to my baby. Her private parts were swollen and discoloured. She was only one year old.” Sam’s petite body shook with heavy sobs from this terrible memory.

When confronted, Gerard rejected the accusations and threatened to hurt Sam and the baby if she continued to pester him. But he still wanted Maelea. “He would come to the house that I shared with my friend and send thugs over to threaten us. I was afraid for our safety and decided that I would leave and hide out in Cambodia.”

Starting Anew

After a difficult journey, Sam found herself in a foreign country. She couldn’t speak the language, and had a little child to feed.

“I tried for three months to find a job. No one would hire me. I had to beg on the streets with my daughter in my arms. We were staying at bus stands and wherever else that we could find shelter. I thought that if feeding my daughter and providing her with a roof over her head meant that I had to sell my body, then it was a small price to pay.” And so she turned to prostitution.

“I will never forget the first time I did it. I just kept my mind on the food that I will be able to buy for my child and me. That made it easier.

“I have been doing this for four years now and have met many women like me. In the early days, one of them told me that I would get used to it, that it would get easier. This is not true. I have never gotten used to it and I will not be doing this for much longer.” There was conviction in her voice.

Sam says she will give it another half a year. “What will my daughter think?” I am stumped for a reply.

“Soon, she will be old enough to start asking me questions,” she adds. Later, I ask her if she would ever tell Maelea of her past. Sam takes a long pause and says, “Right now, I don’t know if I will. I want to be honest, but I also think that she doesn’t have to know the ugly side of my life.”

I ask what she would like to do for a living.

“I am saving some money to go back to school and study. I want to become a teacher.” And then she asks shyly, “Do you think I can?”

I am too overwhelmed to say anything and I nod my answer.

At the time of writing, Sam has already started her classes. After so much misfortune, it does look like she is going to live up to the meaning of her name after all.

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Teaching Assistant, 35, Had Sex with Boy of 13 in Classroom – Instead of Tutoring

 A married teaching assistant has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a 13-year-old boy she was tutoring after school.

Holly Polson, 35

Holly Polson, 35, is accused of having sex with the student in an empty classroom at Palmdale Middle School in California.

They had allegedly been having sex for two weeks before the boy’s parents found inappropriate texts on his cell phone and called police.

Polson, a mother of four, has been booked for four felony counts of lewd acts with a child, and is due to appear in court tomorrow.

Sergeant Brian Hudson of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department told ABC Polson was supposed to be giving the boy extra tutoring – but instead she was sleeping with him.

He said: ‘We entrust our children to teachers and school instructors and in this case that trust was violated.’

When confronted, the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told police the relationship had started about two weeks earlier.

Officers say Polson confessed to the affair when she was arrested at her family home on Tuesday.

Sergeant Hudson said: ‘She admitted to several instances of having sexual intercourse with the victim on school grounds.’

Polson is being held in custody. Her bail is set at $100,000.

She is the 15th female teacher in the U.S. to be arrested or charged for having sex with a pupil this month alone.

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Man runs away with groom on his wedding day

CHINA - A Chinese bride had her wedding day rudely disrupted when her groom's male lover turned up uninvited.

A video posted on Youtube showed the bride and the lover wrangling over the groom and almost trading blows at one point. The story was also featured on Chinese website, Chinasmack.com.

In the video, the bride kept asking the man who had turned up to disrupt her wedding who he was, while her groom tried desperately to calm her - and his male friend - down.

Male lover runs away groom Click on thumbnail to view (Photos: Youtube)

In response, the man, dressed in blue, told her that he and her groom had been together even before she was in the picture. All this time, the groom kept trying to keep the two warring parties away from each other, as he tried to tell his increasingly angry bride that he would explain.

At one point, the man grabbed the groom's hand and ran away with him, as they left the bride to chase after them.

Meanwhile, Chinese netizens are divided over the video. Some feel that the bride was the third party in the relationship, since she met her groom later, while others felt sorry for the woman who was lied to. Yet some did not believe in the authenticity of the video, claiming that some Weibo blogs have said that the video was a fake.

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World’s Biggest Family – Man with 39 Wives, 94 Children, 33 Grandchildren

 He is head of the world’s biggest family – and says he is ‘blessed’  to have his 39 wives. Ziona Chana also has 94 children, 14-daughters-in-law and 33 grandchildren.  They live in a 100-room, four story house set amidst the hills of Baktwang village in the Indian state of Mizoram, where the wives sleep in giant communal dormitories.

“I consider myself a lucky man to be the husband of 39 women and head of the world’s largest family.” The family is organized with almost military discipline, with the oldest wife Zathiangi organizing her fellow partners to perform household chores such as cleaning, washing and preparing meals. 

One evening meal can see them pluck 30 chickens, peel 132lb of potatoes and boil up to 220lb of rice. Coincidentally, Mr Chana is also head of a sect that allows members to take as many wives as he wants. He even married ten women in one year, when he was at his most prolific, and enjoys his own double bed while his wives have to make do with communal dormitories.

He keeps the youngest women near to his bedroom with the older members of the family sleeping further away – and there is a rotation system for who visits Mr Chana’s bedroom. Rinkmini, one of Mr Chana’s wives who is 35 years old, said: ‘We stay around him as he is the most important person in the house. He is the most handsome person in the village. She says Mr Chana noticed her on a morning walk in the village 18 years ago and wrote her a letter asking for her hand in marriage. Another of his wives, 

Huntharnghanki, said the entire family gets along well. The family system is reportedly based on “mutual love and respect.” And Mr Chana, whose religious sect has 4,000 members, says he has not stopped looking for new wives. ’To expand my sect, I am willing to go even to the U.S. to marry,’ he said. One of his sons insisted that Mr Chana, whose grandfather also had many wives, marries the poor women from the village so he can look after them.

 “I consider myself a lucky man to be the husband of 39 women and head of the world’s largest family.” The family is organized with almost military discipline, with the oldest wife Zathiangi organizing her fellow partners to perform household chores such as cleaning, washing and preparing meals.

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