Thai Monks Told to Behave on Internet


	Thai Monks Told to Behave on Internet

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3-4-2008 12:22 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/21c8f233-318c-4533-aee0-14496c52bdab/D7E24504-495F-4515-B00A-AE872A82428F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKBKK20373820080304?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews" href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKBKK20373820080304?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews" style="font-size: 11px;">uk.reuters.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKBKK20373820080304?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews">Thai officials urged Buddhist monks on
Tuesday to avoid using social networking Web sites to woo women
after an advocacy group found some monks were doing just that.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKBKK20373820080304?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews"><P> The request came as police in the northeast detained a monk
accused of using a Web site to lure a woman to his temple and
raping her.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKBKK20373820080304?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews"><P> "I call on Hi5 users to tell the monks to leave the site if
they are found using it," junior minister Jakrapob Penkair told
reporters after a Buddhist monitoring group said some monks
were flirting on the Web site popular with Thai users.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKBKK20373820080304?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews"><P> Reports of monks caught using or selling drugs or having
consensual sex with women are not uncommon in the Thai media,
which reported on Tuesday a 23-year-old monk was caught raping
a teenager he lured to his room through the Web site.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKBKK20373820080304?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews"><P> "Instead of using the Net to flirt with young girls, monks
should find ways to preach Dharma and lead them in the right
direction," said Ladda Thangsupachai, head of the Cultural
Surveillance Centre.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D7E24504-495F-4515-B00A-AE872A82428F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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