Gaddafi wants thieves to lose hands
LONDON: Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi called on Friday for stricter implementation of the Sharia (Islamic law), including cutting of the hands of thieves and public (loggingof adulterers, state television reported, says Reuter.
The television, monitored by the British Broadcasting Corporation, quoted Gaddafi as saying thieves who stole from public rather than private funds, or who stole only small amounts, were getting away without punishment.
" The Quran says the hand of the thief— male or female— must be cut off. I want a law to be Introduced, or the original law to be amended, so that the hands of the thief, both male and female, be cut off regardless of the amount the have stolen," he said in a televised speech.
Gaddafi said the punishment should be more severe when the theft involves public funds.
“Robbery must be punished by cutting off of the hands whether it involves public or private property. In fact tt should be applied especially when (the theft) is committed, against public property", he said.
“Also, the man or the woman who commits adultery should be given 100 strokes of the whip and the whipping must be witnessed by a group of believers or on television," he added
He urged Libya's Basic People's Congress, due to meet over the weekend, to Include the Issue of implementing Islamic law on its agenda.
They send their children to prostitution
BANGKOK: Four women have been arrested and charged with supplying their five children for prostitution, police said yesterday, reports AFP.
The women and their five children, ranging tn age from seven to 15, were picked up in downtown Bangkok Friday evening by undercover policeman posing as potential cus-tomers.
Police were told about the mothers selling the children's by an outraged member of the public, an officer said.
The children were kept at a police station Friday night and were due to be sent to a children’s welfare home later Saturday, the officer said.
Age doesn't matter
BANGKOK: A man who is reported to be 115 years old is planning to marry a 106-year-old woman whom he met at a health contest for the elderly, a Thal newspaper said Saturday, reports AP.
Prom Kaew-ngarm won the contest in the northeastern province of Udorn Thani Thursday while the woman he wants to wed, Bal Onnok, came in second.
Prom, married twice before at ages 20 and 40, told the newspaper he hadn’t wanted to do so again because hts children may protest. .
"But after meeting Bai, 1 think we can get along well anti I want to marry her. I’m lonely," he said. " 1'11 ask my children to have sympathy for ap old man."
Prom said frequent exercise and a diet of only cooked food, particularly fish, fruit and vegetables, accounted for hts longevity and sexual potency.
The newspaper did not say If the reported ages of Prom and Bai had been verified.
A tragic end
KATHMANDU: A deer hunter wearing a fox-skin cap met a tragic end in a forest as a fellow hunter mistook him for a deer, the Nepalese news agency reported Saturday, says AFP.
The Incident took place tn .the Qaharbise forest in Sakhuwasbha district^ 380 kilometers f 298 m(les) northeast of Kathmandu last week, the Rastria Samachar Samltl (RSS) report said, quoting police sources.
Two brothers wearing fox-skin caps were hiding in a bush hunting spotted deer when a third hunter fired his doublebarrel gun at them, killing one instantaneously the report said.