Empowered by the Indian ruling, three Singaporean activists have launched separate bids in a renewed push to decriminalise gay sex in the city-state, where a high court is due to begin hearing their cases on Wednesday. The court has set aside six days in November for the legal challenges to be heard but it is unclear when the proceedings will wrap up. The law does not apply to homosexual acts between women.
Previous legal challenges to overturn the ban have failed, although recent opinion polls indicated there has been growing support for gay rights. Four Chinese men have been arrested for begging in Bangkok, with bogus stories to draw public sympathy that allowed them to earn 2, baht a day each.
Senior public health officials insist the hazardous substances committee neither eased nor delayed the ban on three toxic farm chemicals, as the industry minister announced. Civilians continue to flee into Thailand to escape clashes between Myanmar government troops and Mon fighters across the border from Kanchanaburi.
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