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Daily Tribune
23-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Tribune
Nine-Year-Old Thai Tattoo Artist Makes His Mark at Bangkok Expo
Email : Nine-year-old Napat Mitmakorn, a young Thai tattoo artist, showcased his skills at the 2025 Thailand Tattoo Expo in Bangkok, where he worked on a tattoo for his uncle. Wielding a tattoo gun that seemed too large for his small hands, Napat carefully inked a fanged serpent design on his uncle's thigh. 'I want to be a tattoo artist and open my own tattoo parlour,' Napat told AFP, as curious attendees stopped to watch and film his work. 'I like art, so I like to tattoo.' Despite his young age, Napat is already making a name for himself in the world of tattooing, a centuries-old tradition in Thailand. Napat's father, Nattawut Sangtong, an amateur tattoo artist himself, introduced his son to the craft. To keep Napat engaged and away from video games, Nattawut began teaching him tattooing by watching TikTok tutorials. The father-son duo even shares their tattoo sessions on TikTok, where their channel "The Tattoo Artist with Milk Teeth" has gained a large following. The channel streams Knight's sessions and has drawn hundreds of thousands of viewers. While Napat has been tattooing family and friends, he's aware that working on public clients would require more training, especially in hygiene. "I just wanted to keep him away from his phone because he was addicted to gaming," Nattawut explained, adding that his son's passion for art and school subjects helped him quickly pick up the skill. At the expo, Napat's artistry drew attention, as he completed the first part of an eight-inch Naga serpent design. The tattoo was set to take 12 hours to finish. Despite the techno music blaring from the speakers, Napat remained focused, eager to continue his work.
BBC News
10-03-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Lalit Modi: Vanuatu PM cancels passport of former IPL cricket chief
The prime minister of Vanuatu has ordered the cancellation of a passport issued by the island nation to fugitive Indian businessman Lalit Modi, who is wanted by Delhi in a corruption order came three days after India confirmed that Mr Modi had got citizenship of Vanuatu, a string of more than 80 islands in the Pacific Modi, the former chief of the Indian Premier League (IPL), is wanted for allegedly rigging bids during his tenure as the head of the world's richest cricket Modi, who has been living in the UK since 2010, has always denied the allegations. India has made several unsuccessful attempts to extradite Friday, India's foreign ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal told reporters that Mr Modi had applied to surrender his Indian passport in London."We are also given to understand that he has acquired citizenship of Vanuatu. We continue to pursue the case against him as required under law," Jaiswal had news of Mr Modi becoming a Vanuatu citizen had made headlines in India, where he was once the face of the glamorous, cash-rich IPL tournament. He was a regular presence on the social scene, rubbing shoulders with Bollywood stars and India's on Monday, Vanuatu's Prime Minister Jotham Napat announced that his country had decided to cancel Mr Modi's citizenship. Napat said a Vanuatu passport was a "privilege" and that "applicants must seek citizenship for legitimate reasons"."None of those legitimate reasons include attempting to avoid extradition, which the recent facts brought to light clearly indicate was Mr Modi's intention," a media release quoted Napat as said that background checks and Interpol screenings conducted during Mr Modi's application for a passport had shown no criminal he added, that in the past 24 hours, he had been made aware that Interpol had twice rejected India's requests to issue an alert notice on Mr Modi, citing a lack of "substantive judicial evidence"."Any such alert would've triggered an automatic rejection of Mr Modi's citizenship application," the release added. The move is likely to bring relief to Indian authorities. Unlike the UK, Vanuatu - an island nation in the Pacific Ocean - does not have an extradition treaty with India. Extradition treaties allow repatriation of people accused of crimes between countries.A day earlier, Mr Modi wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter) that there were no cases pending against him in any court in India and accused the media of peddling "fake news" about Modi was instrumental in founding the IPL in 2008, which has now become a multi-billion-dollar industry. The main accusations against Mr Modi relate to rigging bids during the auction of two team franchises in 2010. He was also accused of selling broadcasting and internet rights without 2013, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) banned Mr Modi from any involvement in cricket activities for BBC News India on Instagram, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.
Yahoo
11-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Pacific nation Vanuatu elects prime minister
Vanuatu's parliament resoundingly elected a former foreign minister as premier Tuesday, less than two months after a deadly earthquake rocked the Pacific nation. Jotham Napat, a senior disaster management official before entering politics, was backed to be prime minister by 50 of the 52 members of parliament, a livestream of the proceedings showed. Two ballots were declared void. The 52-year-old had been favoured to take the top job after his Leaders Party of Vanuatu won nine seats in January elections -- more than any other party. While foreign minister from 2022-2023, he told local media of the government's commitment to "strong diplomatic relations" with China but also said the two countries did not discuss security matters. Vanuatu, home to around 330,000 people, has strong relations with Australia, which touts its role as the archipelago's largest single aid donor and strongest security partner. Napat was a weather forecaster in his early career, later taking a string of top positions including as chairman of Air Vanuatu and head of the country's national disaster committee, the parliament website showed. After entering parliament in 2016, he served in senior roles including as deputy prime minister and foreign minister. The January general election date was postponed for two days after a 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit Vanuatu in December, killing 14 people, rupturing roads and flattening buildings in the capital Port Vila. Vanuatu's parliament had already been dissolved in November, before disgruntled MPs could launch a no-confidence motion designed to topple Charlot Salwai, who was then prime minister. The motion reportedly cited a grab bag of grievances including the flagging fortunes of national carrier Air Vanuatu, a teachers' strike and financial transparency questions. Such political instability has become familiar in the former British and French colony, which changed prime minister 20 times between 1991 and 2017. The tumult reached crisis levels at the end of 2023, when Vanuatu churned through three premiers in the space of a month. lec/djw/cms/rsc
