the head of the bangkok office of one u.s.-based ngo says legalizing prostitution could benefit underground organizations instead. >> to try to protect their rights in prostitution is only to try to protect them while they're being harmed. but we offer them the opportunity to have a good job, to get paid fair wages, to have benefits that come with a real job. >> reporter: night light is teaching former sex workers to make jewelry and it pays them about $300 a month, close to the average income in thailand. night light sells the jewelry online, and shares the profits with the women. this vocational training makes it different to other support groups that focus on teaching literacy. take recently started visited night light. she works at the global bar five times a week. she used to be an accountant but after losing her job life now is very different. she says the only way she can pay her sick mother's medical bills and her daughter's university tuition is to work as a prostitute. >> translator: i had no choice because of my sit

about 30 kilometers southwest of bangkok there is a town which has become known as little myanmar.n may, myanmarese laborers flooded the streets to see aung san suu kyi. suu kyi remained in myanmar for 24 years, after finally being elected, she chose this time as the first time to give a place for a public speech. maha chai has long been known for its fish and shellfish, taken from the gulf of thailand. thousands of seafood processing factories of all sizes line the streets. maha chai's population consists of roughly 480,000 thais and 150,000 legally working myanmarese migrants. in addition there are reportedly about the same number of undocumented migrants working here. currently roughly 90% of the workers on fishing boats are myanmarese. these myanmarese workers arrive in thailand with no connections and just a handful of belongings. they make about $9 a day. they are provided with meals and a place to sleep but living conditions are less than adequate. on this ship three workers share three square meters on a ship's sleeping space. in principal, thailand prohibits the hiring of

so if we take bangkok, it has bangkok, tokyo, qualalumpur.g disposable income and residents who have an apt attitude for international travel. >> roger, you go to bangkok a lot. it has ten times the traffic. >> you don't go to a bangkok to avoid traffic. you go there to shop and go on to other places. i love bangkok. i go there a lot, at least once a year. and my point of view, though, is that, in fact, from mastercard's point of view, you might be missing some people who come there because i don't use mastercard when i'm there. i use cash because i have bank accounts there. i get there, i draw the cash and just spend. and i just wonder how many people you think do that and how many people, in fact, feel that, in fact, drawing cash or spending on mastercard is a smidgenon expensive. >> actually, this index is based on public data. it has really nothing to do with mastercard. the data has come from the imf world economic outlook. it has the u.n. data, it has some of the oeg data. so actually, it is independent of whether you use cash or master

welcome back to the kaiser report imax guys are time now to go to bangkok and seek with john came of smart knowledge you john welcome back to the kaiser report thank you max always a pleasure. john we hear stories of traffic jams a billion shops in bangkok in asia have you witnessed this elaborate for us if you can. sure we see some of the strongest buying in asian markets this time around on the bank a raid on gold and silver paper prices and a lot of lives of the boys shops here bit of east a couple hour waits and you know the interesting thing is so we've had probably the strongest buying in physical gold since two thousand and eight in bangkok the same has been reported hong kong were the president the home com gold and silver shade society said that they received this strong they see the strongest buying on this takedown in fifty years max so you know everywhere in asia whether it's china of course has been reported so you have imported as beginning of the year over a thousand tons of gold from hong kong permits has reported the strongest buy since the take down in two thousand

cholaphansa narula in bangkok is following the story. >>> may 28th marks 15 years since pakistan conducted its first nuclear weapons test. then-prime minister nawaz sharif what was seen as a national success. and 15 years on he's set to return to office. nazar ul islam reports from islamabad. >> reporter: lahore is currently hosting a conference to mark the anniversary. prime minister in waiting sharif used the occasion to highlight his role in pakistan becoming the first islamic nation to develop its own nuclear weapons program. >> translator: pakistan's achievement made us the seventh nation to become a nuclear power in its own right. >> reporter: pakistani scientists began developing the country's nuclear program in the 1970s. it culminated in the first successful test in may 1998. india had previously beaten its neighbor to become a nuclear power almost a quarter century earlier, provoking an intense rivalry between the two nations. sharif emphasized pakistan's nuclear development repeatedly during the recent general election campaign, emphasizing that it had been achieved despite stro

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a new outbreak of sectarian violence. .olice arrested 18 people we have a report from bangkok. >> the latest violence in yanmar ended with this, hundreds of homes set on fire. 10 people were injured. hit.mosques were >> most of the people were from this town. there were around 50 of them. >> my husband is a muslim. son wants to be a buddhist that.he is allowed to do >> a government appointed a committee issued a report on how to stop the violence against the muslim minority. last year 200 were killed. myanmar does not recognize the muslim minority. some were born in myanmar. burne houses continued to into the night, the government has to do with anti-muslim violence closing in on sensitive areas. the commercial center and biggest city. a growing challenge as it works to distance itself from five decades of repressive military rule. >> barack obama has renewed his promise to close the military prison in guantanamo bay in cuba. 2/3 of the remaining detainees --are now0 strikes. on hunger strikes. >> 100 prisoners are starving themselves. president obama a push congress to close down the

here is your highs, 35 in bangkok. extremely hot out there. and tokyo looking at 27 degrees, a couple degrees higher than seasonal. on wednesday, things will turn quite wet. >>> now across north america on your memorial day weekend. things are severe from texas up to saskatchewan. heavy rain has caused floods in many areas. of san antonio, texas on saturday. several millimeters fell in several hours. unfortunately, there's more rain to come for the next couple of days. we'reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee e t colefffffff condndndndndndndndndndndndndndn across the same area. today the heaviest rain will be found in iowa. now back behind it, very wendy and very hot. so conditions are ideal for drifting into the northwest once again providing wet and windy conditions. as the system moves through, temperatures will go down. going up to 23 degrees in new york. nice and pleasant. 20 degrees for you in toronto. and over 30s in oklahoma city a. >>> all right. f finally, in europe then, a new system will be creeping in. parts of france will turn wet withininini

get need every weekday, live from bangkok. >>> the people of myanmar are hungry for education as their economy booms. in southern japan -- >> this is asia pacific university. it is located in southern japan. about 2500 students from 80 countries and regions study here. there are 31 students from myanmar. in recent years, apu has accepted more students from myanmar than any other university in japan. >> after my graduation, i will go back to my country and my ministry, so i will contribute to my society. >>> about 100 students have graduated from apu. last november, some of them launched an alumni association. the tourism minister attended. >> you're going to do the business opportunities for these people. >> this is the president of the group. he runs a tourism agency. he studied at apu 14 years ago. but he says he went to apu because he wanted as many perspectives as we could. >> i have to believe that myanmar will open up to the world and serve as a bridge with japan. >> this is his office. much of his business is with japanese private parks. with the management style inspired by jap

scorching hot in bangkok at 38 degrees. towards north america, we have been talking about the heat across the west and north really heavy rain battering ontario. towards the south, the mid-leak states where we will probably see strong thunderstorms in the course of the day and super cell thunderstorms could be ignited in northern texas due to the clash of the two big masses. oklahoma city at 26 degrees, houston at 29. san francisco at 17 degrees. eureka, you're only down to 13 for your high, well below your average. here's our extended forecast. >>> that wraps up this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. do stay with us. announcer: california's gold is produced in association with kcet los angeles and is seen statewide on... this series is endorsed by... [captioning made possible by kcet public television and friends of nci] second announcer: is it possible to drive a car and still have a clean environment? to refine a cleaner gasoline? to build a bridge from oil to renewable energy? could business go fu

scorching hot in bangkok at 38 degrees. towards north america, we have been talking about the heat across the west and north really heavy rain battering ontario. towards the south, the mid-leak states where we will probably see strong thunderstorms in the course of the day and super cell thunderstorms could be ignited in northern texas due to the clash of the two big masses. oklahoma city at 26 degrees, houston at 29. san francisco at 17 degrees. eureka, you're only down to 13 for your high, well below your average. here's our extended forecast. >>> that wraps up this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. do stay with us. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> ifill: the obama administration was back on the defensive today, as attorney general eric holder faced questions on capitol hill over the i.r.s.'s targeting of conservative groups and the secret seizure of the a.p.'s phone records. good evening, i'm gwen ifill. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight, we follow up w

get news and inhave the right every weekday, live from bangkok on nhk "newsline." >>> people who had to evacuate near the fukushima nuclear plant have been waiting to go home. they may have to wait longer. workers have cleaned less than 5% of the designated clean up area after that work is completed, radiation levels in many places have not fallen to government standard. the town hirono lies 30 kilometers south of the plant. >>> it's 0.3 now >> translator: the radiation level is not falling. >> residents are calling on authorities to decontaminate these areas once again. >> translator: the radiation must drop to a level that we feel safe to live with. otherwise, we can never rebuild this area. >> the workers washed down roads and roofs and scraped off the surface soil in gardens, but town officials say it's difficult to remove substances from the tiny gaps in asphalt. heavy snow hampers the work in winter. sometimes the homeowners have evacuated and officials can't contact them. it's also difficult to find a place to temporarily store the contaminated soil. one expert suggests it's t

scorching hot in bangkok at 37 degrees. we move over to north america. we've till got sominshows and some snow to talk about in the eastern canada region. and back behind that, due to the very cold air blanketing the area, we've got frost warnings and freeze advisories. we have a system creating thundershowers. we have a cold front sagging down to denver. so that region could possibly see some thundershowers. the warm air is creating this kind of temperature. denver at 31 degrees. if you recall yesterday, that was 17 degrees in chicago. now a high jump to 3degree a quick look here in europe. still a messy picture here across the british isles. it will be quite severe across northern regions here as well as southern norway. and down towards the lower countries as well. wet and wendy across the turkey region with athens reaching to 25 degrees and moscow, take a rook at that, 30 degrees. a rare sight fhi the year. i'll leave you now for your extended forecast. >> those higher temperatures are giving an early boost to something that's associated with summer

patchari raksawong in bangkok is following the story for us. patchar >>> the boat hit rocks after hitting pauktaw township. aid workers called for an evacuation because the storm is expected to tear through the camps that dot the coast. most that live there are rohingya muslims who fled there last year. >> we're worried there is no protection for us here. the government has just announced that a storm is coming soon, but there is no support for us. >> u.n. officials estimate about 69,000 people are living in low lying areas that are at high risk of flooding and landslides, authorities fear the cyclone could make the humanitarian crisis in the camps worse. they say the damp conditions could lead to a outbreak of disease. a cyclone hit this part of myanmar two years previously. it killed more than 140,000 people. >> state run media shows the case of online whistle blowing in the fight against corruption. they are saying they suspect him for issues that require serious discipline. he used the social networking site to accuse him of wrong doings. t

with plenty of sunshine. 31 for you in beijing. 31 in taipei and cooling down to the lower 30s in bangkoknday. >>> all right. in north america extreme weather is happening in the mid section of the u.s. through texas into the dakotas. we're talking about heavy rain and thunderstorms. in fact, several tornados have been reported in parts of oklahoma as well as kansas. hail the size of a baseball in kansas as well as nebraska. and heavy rain is coming down across the northern half of the u.s. this system is slow moving. that means the nasty weather will continue into tuesday. across the east scattered thunderstorms with a southeastern part of the u.s. as well as eastern canada. eastern canada will see rain intensifying on your monday. across the west, looking dry, but conditions are ideal for wildfires, especially in parts of texas as well as new mexico. temperatures will be extremely warm for many areas. the cooling down to 17 in denver and 14 degrees in winnipeg. >>> finally, in europe, then, wet and windy weather will persist in the southern parts of scandinavia. rain is coming down acro

i'm pachari raksawong in bangkok. >>> people who had to evacuate their houses near the fukushima nuclear plant have been waiting for the day they can return home. some of them may have to wait longer. an nhk survey shows workers have succeeded in cleaning less than 5% of the designated area. after that work is completed, radiation levels in many places have not fallen to government standard. the town hirono lies 30 kilometers south of the plant. workers have almost finished cleaning up residential areas. the government's safe limit for radiation is 0.23 microsieverts per hour. >> translator: it's 0.39. >> translator: the radiation level is not falling. >> residents are calling for another round of decontamination work. >> translator: the radiation must drop to a level that we feel safe to live with. otherwise, we can never rebuild this area. >> the workers are washing down roads and roofs and scraping off the topsoil in gardens. the town officials say it's difficult to remove radioactive substances from tiny gaps. the work is demanding and it takes a lot of time. in winter, the task is h

temperatures are as follows, looking at 36 degrees in bangkok. 31 degrees for beijing. it will stay almost the same into your friday, and cooling down to 23 in tokyo. and 30 degrees for you in taipei on wednesday. okay, in north america, a tropical depression has formed just to the south of mexico. it could strengthen to a tropical storm and then head towards the north. we will keep updating you on the storm's progress. and to the north we talked about 14 tornados and hail the size of a softball yesterday in the midsection of the u.s. the severe weather remains for the same area. across the central plains, as well as the lower great lakes region and the ohio valley. the severest area is going to be found in kansas, nebraska, and oklahoma. oklahoma is still recovering from the damage caused by the deadly tornado last week. severe weather is, certainly, not welcomed. as we go into wednesday, we're expecting more severe weather, i'm afraid, further tornados, heavy rain, and large hail are likely into the next couple of days across the same area. now, back behind it, dry an

from bangkok, jonathan hang reports. >> when the cyclone struck by years ago the government was unprepared. now more than 150,000 -- more than 150,000 people lost their lives. this time the authorities are trying much harder. haslocal red cross says it already moved and 90,000 people from the storm and can help more if necessary. senior ministers have been going out to check that the evacuation is going smoothly. in some places, it is. but not here. nor in several other camps housing muslims displaced by last year secretary and a tax. eight agencies have described this as chaotic and inadequate. it is hampered by the deep distrust of the government and army. and having been driven from -- having been driven from their homes once, they did not want to move again, even though they are terribly exposed in these primitive settlements close to the sea. >> i lost my mother and two daughters last year. i lost everything. i am not going anywhere. ownhey are making their preparations. how can these flimsy shelters withstand the power of local strength cyclone? it probably cannot. these camps have b

. >> discipline and good behavior are on parade as the day begins at a state school just outside bangkok. their appearance is a national -- is a matter of national policy. every student is expected to cut their hair in the same way under regulations imposed in the 1970's after a military coup. even young men like this 18- year-old. >> it is terrible. we are grown up. it should not be about the hair. long hair looks ahead -- good too. >> it has been one of the least popular rules of school. for decades, most kids would not say anything about it. in recent years, some students decided to speak out for their rights. and on-line campaign began four years ago with a manifesto that says the regulations are contrary to the thai constitution and makes young people only learn how to follow orders. >> they said they would cut my hair to the right flank. it is my hair. i do not want anyone to do anything with it. my hair style does not have anything to do with my academic performance. >> the issue got more public exposure in 2011 when a student who wanted to be allowed to grow his hair took his cas

it's bangkok.he most ins ta grammed part besides maybe the palace, i know you have been there. >> this is the most surprising thing about the story. it's not that it's the most instagramed city, but the shopping mall is just a shopping mall and the airport is just an airport. i am surprised by that fact. >> up next a most special edition of street talk. we're going to check out the most tweeted about stocks. and we're going to look at the most surprising stocks of the year so far. >> and we're going to lee you now for the break with the number three most popular youtube video of 2013. the ironm maman iii trailer whis now the fifth highest grossing movie of all time. >> it may be street talk time but today we are keeping with the theme of today's show. we have got for you, we have dug out the most tweeted stocks edition. >> we looked at the most tweeted stocks in the douw over the pas 30 days. the ones that all of you were talking about the most. >> first up we have disney. >> it's been a heck of a

and vegas it was a bangkok. it was the same film.ture fromfm that formula, but the problem is it's too dark. first half of the movie is awkward, violent, dark, unfunny. i didn't find it to be funny whatsoever and then it turns into this hilarious no, sir tajc movie when they get to vegas.ve. >> so they should have never left vegas. >> yes, it's too allen centered, i love him but he is only good in supporting role, he is not good when they focus on him in i the lead. if you saw due date, it was the same. they were forcing his odd humorr but it works in smaller doses. i gave the movie 2.5 out of five, leading to the credits. there's a scene at the end that is the fu funniest thing that ty have done in the series. the sad part is it's in the end credits. imake sure you stay after the te credits. nowhere near hang over 1.1. the credit sequence will makeile you die. 2.5 out of 5 for the movie. the credits are really funny. fu >> i will be back next week. >>> bdk. >> you're here. >> you can check it out there. h i sat down with the entire

may be taken the consideration the number one tourist destinatio which is bangkok, thailand, what isg is th reason that thailand is being dubbed becaus ofa shopping. are you gng to go to thailand to go shopping? >> probably not. i don't think so. iactually edged out london. >> ladies, ladies you're so sweet. you really think it is shopping? thats what these guys are telling you. shopping. yes, of course it is. in a day of internet you can ge anything that you want from thailand or timbuktu over the iernet. people go, man go to thailand. did you ever see hangover to? that is what is all about. it is for e sex trade. i'm sorry. sex trade. sex sex, sex, that's it for. melissa: that's it? melissa: whenevert was there with a littl -- >> there are laughshat are worn in different places. melissa: i can't believe i walked ito that one. >> whate is saying is sexx cells. melissa: that is shocking. you know what, who knew? well, there is no lie, the united states has a fascinaon with the britis royal family. w the in-laws are coming to paid middleton -- take middleton's parents are plannin to e

. >> we've had people here from bangkok, we've had people here from australia, from spain.e've had all kinds of consultants and engineers who have studied automated parking. every one of them have said wow, this totally changes what you can do with automated parking. >> even better, robots eliminate the need for humans to walk through empty garages alone. >> many bad things have happened in parking garages but the patron never has to be in the garage in an unsafe environment. >> mark patterson is the ceo of boomerang and has worked on wall street for more than 20 years, covering real estate. he says developers are starting to take notice. >> there's no question it's challenging because it is something new, something innovative, but the savings are so dramatic, the ability to gain great rewards from using a new system or having break-through technology versus the competitors is very powerful. >> piers morgan live is next. s. ♪ and she forgot to pay her credit card bill on time. good thing she's got the citi simplicity card. it doesn't charge late fees or a penalty rate. ever

in a 50-word computerized test where scores count toward the preliminary round. 13-year-old audrey bangkokand niha calikaha are competing. this year the preliminary rounds include a vocabulary content. students must spell the words correctly and know what they mean and use it in their own sentence. this is the first time in the bee's 86-year history, that vocabulary will be a part of the scoring. >>> 5:53. wall street back to work after a three-day weekend. investors trying to get on a winning track >>> they broke a winning streak after they took comments from ben bernanke way too seriously during a briefing. he said during a briefing rather off handedly that the fed would eventually end many of its programs known as quantitative easing. what got lost in the speech was the much more important message saying it was the federal government itself that was most responsible for the poor performance of our economy. so the markets lost ground after four straight weeks of gains. canada ace biggest drugmaker this morning buying baush & lomb for nearly $9 million. folks at the pat tillman foundation

stabilize the whole region -- >> well, in the wake of the recent bombings in boston, the next day bangkok got bombed. western press doesn't can really appreciate -- [inaudible] but it happened the next day where, like, 16 people were killed. it's a big indian city, if you don't know. so the thing is, your book says, okay, give them technology, we'll provide the moderate muslims, that is, which i don't have any opinion about because for me, religion is as good as its followers. anyone, it's true for, it's true for exiles, it's true more -- >> yeah. and -- >> i'm a spiritual hindu. >> i would agree that the danger is the use of religion to gain political power. >> that is what is happening everywhere. >> jihadists are doing. >> do we have a point by saying, okay, radicalism is what we need to blame and not islam or any other religion for that matter? >> again, i'm not a scholar of islam. i would say that i oppose, you know, the what has beenist extreme interpretation of islam that gives women no rights and thinks that they should create a 12th century caliphate. and i think there's many pac

david piper streaming live from bangkok, thailand with the latest. >> reporter: it's been toning downtoric over the past week or so after all of that talk about nuclear war against the u.s. but it now seems to have changed now they jailed that american. the announcement, that 44-year-old kenneth bay is given sentence of 15 years hard labor, came from the north korea state news agency. held from last year after entering the country as tourist. last week, pyongyang announced charges of crimes against north korea,be including attempting toover throw the country. pyongyang said he was accused of what they describe as antigovernment crimes. according to activists in north korea, he is believed to be operator of korean defense. the press news agency reports the trends describe him as devout christian. south koreanbe activists say he may have gone over the boarder to take picture of starving north korean children. the state agency an department said they want him released immediately humanitarian grounds. swedish diplomats are giving council to bay. north korean has arrested several citizens

. >> theater from bangkok is my designer. >> mcl. >> i'm wearing kavoni by michael d. >> i'm wearingl. >> i'm wearing a neon pepham jacket by a designer called christopher dress. >> the world's fashion houses are looking to asia where younger shoppers have more to spend to spruce up their wardrobe. >> there's a lot of wealth coming into the region. there's al of people that are being employed and just a lot of personal consumption. so i think it's a really good growth story. whereas in the u.s. and europe, it's a little bit of an aging population. >> and for many labels, singapore lies in proximity to china. china's retail market is expected to overtake the u.s. by the world's largest by 2016. by then, it will be worth a whooping $12 trillion u.s. wa exactly does the does the asian fashionist want? >> everyone wants to see something new. that is the first question. what is new? >> but as more and more shopping moves online, designers will have to adjust their strategies. >> i think in general, all the big labels are start to go think about an online strategy. i think it's obvious tha

. >>> first there was las vegas, then bangkok.gover" franchise have in store for part three? zach galifianakis will join us in a few minutes. >> coming up tomorrow on "today" an exclusive live interview with jimmy connors. we know the tennis legend. he has an explosive new memoir. he opens up with his past relationship with fellow tennis star chris evert, his struggles with gambling and his fierce rivalry with john mcenroy. we'll talk more with him "rock center" with brian williams. stay tuned for that. >>> natalie's got a check of all the headlines. >> good morning, matt and savannah. a court appearance today for the former school bus driver accused of keeping three women and a child captive in his cleveland home. 52-year-old ariel castro looked down at the floor and did not enter a plea. bail was set at $8 million. his two brothers arrested with him have not been charged in the kidnappings but were in court today on unrelated warrants. the victims have told police that they had been chained, beaten and starved. they only recall

in bangkok. --in benghazi. let me step back to tripoli and what's going on there at this point. at about 10:45 or 11:00, we can for -- we confer -- and i asked the defense attache is anything coming? will they be sending any help? he answered that the nearest help was in the on oh -- in aviano. they said it would take two or three hours for them to get on site but there were also no takers available for them to refuel. i said thank you very much. as we went on with our work. phase three begins with news that the ambassador's body has been recovered and david mcfarland is the individual who began to receive that name. from his -- receive that news from his contacts in benghazi. the ambassador was taken to a hospital. we don't know initially which hospital it is but through david's reports we learn it is in a hospital controlled by sharia, a group that twitter feeds identified as leading the attack on the consulate. we are getting this information as the tripoli response team arrives in benghazi at the airport. both our annex chief in the annex chief in benghazi in our defense att