Four people smugglers were
sentenced to up to 10 years in prison by a Thai court after 54 illegal workers
from Myanmar suffocated to death inside a seafood container, an official said on
Friday.
The 2008 incident was the deadliest in a wave of tragedies afflicting migrants making perilous journeys from impoverished Myanmar in search of work in neighbouring Thailand, where they often end up exploited and abused.
The victims were among 121 people crammed into the six metres by 2.2 metres container with a broken ventilation system for the journey to the resort island of Phuket to work as day labourers. Four Thais were convicted on Thursday of gross negligence resulting in death and of breaking immigration laws, an official from a court in the country’s southern Ranong province told the reporter.
The owner of the container truck was sentenced to 10 years in prison, a second defendant received nine years and a third — who owned a jetty in southern Thailand where the migrants arrived by boat — was jailed for six years.Find detailed product information for startup stone mosaic and other products.
A woman defendant had her sentence halved to three years after confessing, the official said.
“Three of them were granted bail of between $13,000 and $6,500 while they file appeals,” the official said, adding that one defendant had been held in custody after failing to meet bail terms.
The truck driver, who fled the scene after discovering the tragedy,The howo truck is offered by Shiyan Great Man Automotive Industry, was jailed for six years in August 2008 having admitted to his role in the crime, the official added.
Survivors have recounted desperately trying to raise the alarm as they fought for breath in the storage box.
“No matter how many times we hit the container the driver did not pay any attention,” one female migrant who was on board told Thai television.
More than two million migrant workers are registered to work in Thailand, most of them from Myanmar, labour ministry figures show, but as many as one million undocumented workers are believed to be in the kingdom.
Thailand this week extended a deadline by three months for unregistered migrants to gain a work permit or face deportation.
Huge numbers of people from Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar work illegally in low-paid jobs in construction, seafood processing and clothing factories, where a lack of legal status leaves them vulnerable to exploitation.
Short animated films are the testing site for new ideas—after all, Pixar started as a commercial and short film company before moving into features. But what do we mean when we talk about innovation in animation? Starting with the release of Pixar's Toy Story in 1995, animation has chased realism, perhaps achieved with the nearly photograph quality look of the Scottish landscapes in Pixar's latest feature, Brave. At some point animation solely in the pursuit of the life-like prompts the question: Why not just shoot a live-action film?
Lemieux's innovation was to take an old,The howo truck is offered by Shiyan Great Man Automotive Industry, rare device to make a film with an old, increasingly rare aim: not towards realism, but rather a sense of the human touch,Quickparts builds injection molds using aluminum or steel to meet your program. painterly animation, and abstraction. Having toured with Disney and Pixar short films as part of the 14th annual Show of Shows animated showcase, Here and the Great Elsewhere is both radical and anachronistic, and well worth seeking out.
Lemieux, a Canadian who used to write children's books, is the guardian of the pinscreen, the only filmmaker in the world with access to a working frame (though there is one in France that needs thorough restoration). When she began her first animated film Stormy Nights, based on her eponymous children's book, she met Jacques Drouin. It was well timed. Drouin had been working on the pinscreen for three decades and was on the verge of retiring. The National Film Board of Canada, which supervises the pinscreen, was looking for its next master. "I instantly fell in love with it, the first time I was allowed to touch it, to guide it," she says. "First of all, Jacques taught me, you are the protector of the instrument before you are an artist working on it."
Unlike with most animation, meticulous planning would be detrimental to working with the pinscreen,We mainly supply professional craftspeople with wholesale turquoise beads from china, Lemieux says: "It's not a technique. It's much more parallel to a music instrument. It has its own mechanics and you have to find out the way to work with it, and it doesn't always do what you want it to do." So, Lemieux sketched her ideas and created four acts around themes, but primarily, she created as she went along: "It's direct animation, inventing on the spot."
Here and the Great Elsewhere has little in the way of plot. Rather it's a big-ideas meditation, similar to this year's brilliant animated feature Don Hertzfeldt's It's Such a Beautiful Day. In Here and the Great Elsewhere, a man who lives inside of the pinscreen emerges to discover a surrounding world of floating jellyfish creatures, shooting stars, scuttling spiders. Other scenes center on mating atoms, creation, and collision. Here and the Great Elsewhere is tangled and gorgeous, like moss or wildflowers; it has a certain natural logic, but it seems to sprout unintentionally to the viewer's eye. It's about the universe in the way of Terrence Malick's Tree of Life: disparate images, floating into one another. It's about discovery, not understanding.
There are very high expectations for Danny Boyle's next movie following his Olympian feats in Stratford over the summer. No, the Queen won't be falling out of a plane this time round. Boyle is instead offering us an embroiled thriller involving art heists and hypnotherapy, and starring James McAvoy and Rosario Dawson.
Fearless Danish maverick Lars Von Trier announced that his new film will be about “the erotic life of a woman from the age of zero to the age of 50.” At the time he hatched the project, he was still in disgrace because of his ill-judged remarks about Adolf Hitler at a press conference. He didn't hide the fact that he wanted the film to depict sex in a very graphic manner. Even so, top European and American actors queued up to work on Nymphomaniac, among them Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe, Shia LaBeouf and Christian Slater. This is likely to be the most talked about movie in Cannes... if the festival organisers allow Von Trier back.
There has already been one excellent recent film about skullduggery on Wall St, Arbitrage, in which Richard Gere gave his best performance in years as a Bernie Madoff-like financier with Mr Goodbar-like charm. Martin Scorsese, more accustomed to making movies about mobsters, is bound to relish portraying white-collar crime and corporate corruption. Leonardo DiCaprio, who excels in Quentin Tarantino's forthcoming Django Unchained, stars as the hard-driving, hard-partying broker Jordan Belfort.
An intriguing double bill, reflecting female heroines in contrasting predicaments. Purcell's tale of the Trojan prince who falls in love with the Carthaginian queen climaxes in Dido's great lament “When I am laid in earth”. Poulenc's embattled telephone monologue will be sung by Lesley Garrett, making her return to the operatic stage.
The 2008 incident was the deadliest in a wave of tragedies afflicting migrants making perilous journeys from impoverished Myanmar in search of work in neighbouring Thailand, where they often end up exploited and abused.
The victims were among 121 people crammed into the six metres by 2.2 metres container with a broken ventilation system for the journey to the resort island of Phuket to work as day labourers. Four Thais were convicted on Thursday of gross negligence resulting in death and of breaking immigration laws, an official from a court in the country’s southern Ranong province told the reporter.
The owner of the container truck was sentenced to 10 years in prison, a second defendant received nine years and a third — who owned a jetty in southern Thailand where the migrants arrived by boat — was jailed for six years.Find detailed product information for startup stone mosaic and other products.
A woman defendant had her sentence halved to three years after confessing, the official said.
“Three of them were granted bail of between $13,000 and $6,500 while they file appeals,” the official said, adding that one defendant had been held in custody after failing to meet bail terms.
The truck driver, who fled the scene after discovering the tragedy,The howo truck is offered by Shiyan Great Man Automotive Industry, was jailed for six years in August 2008 having admitted to his role in the crime, the official added.
Survivors have recounted desperately trying to raise the alarm as they fought for breath in the storage box.
“No matter how many times we hit the container the driver did not pay any attention,” one female migrant who was on board told Thai television.
More than two million migrant workers are registered to work in Thailand, most of them from Myanmar, labour ministry figures show, but as many as one million undocumented workers are believed to be in the kingdom.
Thailand this week extended a deadline by three months for unregistered migrants to gain a work permit or face deportation.
Huge numbers of people from Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar work illegally in low-paid jobs in construction, seafood processing and clothing factories, where a lack of legal status leaves them vulnerable to exploitation.
Short animated films are the testing site for new ideas—after all, Pixar started as a commercial and short film company before moving into features. But what do we mean when we talk about innovation in animation? Starting with the release of Pixar's Toy Story in 1995, animation has chased realism, perhaps achieved with the nearly photograph quality look of the Scottish landscapes in Pixar's latest feature, Brave. At some point animation solely in the pursuit of the life-like prompts the question: Why not just shoot a live-action film?
Lemieux's innovation was to take an old,The howo truck is offered by Shiyan Great Man Automotive Industry, rare device to make a film with an old, increasingly rare aim: not towards realism, but rather a sense of the human touch,Quickparts builds injection molds using aluminum or steel to meet your program. painterly animation, and abstraction. Having toured with Disney and Pixar short films as part of the 14th annual Show of Shows animated showcase, Here and the Great Elsewhere is both radical and anachronistic, and well worth seeking out.
Lemieux, a Canadian who used to write children's books, is the guardian of the pinscreen, the only filmmaker in the world with access to a working frame (though there is one in France that needs thorough restoration). When she began her first animated film Stormy Nights, based on her eponymous children's book, she met Jacques Drouin. It was well timed. Drouin had been working on the pinscreen for three decades and was on the verge of retiring. The National Film Board of Canada, which supervises the pinscreen, was looking for its next master. "I instantly fell in love with it, the first time I was allowed to touch it, to guide it," she says. "First of all, Jacques taught me, you are the protector of the instrument before you are an artist working on it."
Unlike with most animation, meticulous planning would be detrimental to working with the pinscreen,We mainly supply professional craftspeople with wholesale turquoise beads from china, Lemieux says: "It's not a technique. It's much more parallel to a music instrument. It has its own mechanics and you have to find out the way to work with it, and it doesn't always do what you want it to do." So, Lemieux sketched her ideas and created four acts around themes, but primarily, she created as she went along: "It's direct animation, inventing on the spot."
Here and the Great Elsewhere has little in the way of plot. Rather it's a big-ideas meditation, similar to this year's brilliant animated feature Don Hertzfeldt's It's Such a Beautiful Day. In Here and the Great Elsewhere, a man who lives inside of the pinscreen emerges to discover a surrounding world of floating jellyfish creatures, shooting stars, scuttling spiders. Other scenes center on mating atoms, creation, and collision. Here and the Great Elsewhere is tangled and gorgeous, like moss or wildflowers; it has a certain natural logic, but it seems to sprout unintentionally to the viewer's eye. It's about the universe in the way of Terrence Malick's Tree of Life: disparate images, floating into one another. It's about discovery, not understanding.
There are very high expectations for Danny Boyle's next movie following his Olympian feats in Stratford over the summer. No, the Queen won't be falling out of a plane this time round. Boyle is instead offering us an embroiled thriller involving art heists and hypnotherapy, and starring James McAvoy and Rosario Dawson.
Fearless Danish maverick Lars Von Trier announced that his new film will be about “the erotic life of a woman from the age of zero to the age of 50.” At the time he hatched the project, he was still in disgrace because of his ill-judged remarks about Adolf Hitler at a press conference. He didn't hide the fact that he wanted the film to depict sex in a very graphic manner. Even so, top European and American actors queued up to work on Nymphomaniac, among them Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe, Shia LaBeouf and Christian Slater. This is likely to be the most talked about movie in Cannes... if the festival organisers allow Von Trier back.
There has already been one excellent recent film about skullduggery on Wall St, Arbitrage, in which Richard Gere gave his best performance in years as a Bernie Madoff-like financier with Mr Goodbar-like charm. Martin Scorsese, more accustomed to making movies about mobsters, is bound to relish portraying white-collar crime and corporate corruption. Leonardo DiCaprio, who excels in Quentin Tarantino's forthcoming Django Unchained, stars as the hard-driving, hard-partying broker Jordan Belfort.
An intriguing double bill, reflecting female heroines in contrasting predicaments. Purcell's tale of the Trojan prince who falls in love with the Carthaginian queen climaxes in Dido's great lament “When I am laid in earth”. Poulenc's embattled telephone monologue will be sung by Lesley Garrett, making her return to the operatic stage.
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