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Mark Schilling Japan Correspondent Boys’ Love, or ‘BL’ as it is also known, was once a minor and lightly regarded type of Japanese manga catering mainly to female fans, delivering stories of handsome young guys falling in love with each other. Now its popularity has spread beyond Japan to much of East Asia and beyond, while metamorphozing into a film, TV and online genre with millions of fans. Just how big BL has become was evident in a Wednesday TIFFCOM seminar on the BL phenomenon in Thailand: Beyond Borders: Exploring the Global Appeal and Diversity of Thailand’s Boys’ Love Contents. The eleven speakers, including an official from the Office of Commercial Affairs, Royal Thai Embassy in Japan, vigorously pitched partnerships with Japanese content companies, which seemed to be a classic case of selling ice to Alaska’s indigenous inhabitants. Members of the packed seminar room might beg to differ, however.

A paedophile who fled the UK before he could be sentenced on child sex offences has been caged for 18 months after being extradited back from Asia.

A fugitive paedophile who fled Scotland after being convicted of possessing indecent photos of children has been jailed.

Katie Price and fiance Carl Woods are risking the law - or huge fines - after making OnlyFans content in Thailand. The troubled 44 year old has been posting pics on OnlyFans while in Thailand. Carl, the former reality TV star, has also been sharing snaps.

A group of fake monks shaved their heads and donned robes to extort people of cash in Thailand.The men ran their evil scheme in the province of Rayong, on the east coast of the Gulf of Thailand, in the south of the country.They were busted after people raised the alarm when the gang would demand cash only donations and chomp rice and chicken after noon, when real monks fast after that time.The seven men were arrested by the Royal Thai Police force and taken to a nearby temple and searched for valid monk credentials by an actual man of the cloth, Noppadon Natataro.He found that one man had the certification, but he said he bought it from a real monk for about £116.Their bags also contained two knives, fake amulets and cash collected from people they managed to dupe. In late 2019, a group of individuals who appeared to be dressed as Buddhist monks, but who had allegedly been demanding large sums of money from people outside Waverley Station and the Balmoral Hotel on Princes Street, appeared in Edinburgh.

For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.A neighbour, who was a relative of the dead victim’s girlfriend, told police that he heard a loud noise while sleeping and then found the Brits on the floor outside their rented apartment.

StokeonTrentLive reports.The case had been weighted down with rocks and thrown into the Mae Klong River, a spot 95miles away from the capital Bangkok.Looker, from Stoke-on-Trent, sparked a global manhunt after he was identified in CCTV footage walking hand-in-hand with her in Bangkok before her death.The pair had left the Rainbow 4 go-go bar in the Nana Plaza region on November 1, 2014.Looker allegedly fled the country and was eventually arrested in Ibiza, Spain in 2017.He denies murder and his legal team has been fighting extradition ever since.But the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has now ruled Looker should face justice in Thailand.The ruling came after case files were submitted by the Royal Thai Police in Bangkok.Thai