Crazy World: Rape victim advised suicide; to be paraded naked

INDIA: A tribal woman was gang raped by five men in a village in the Indian state of West Bengal. What is more horrifying is that the villagers are up in arms against the victim! She has been threatened that she would be paraded naked throughout the village if she did not leave the village.

The woman has been penalised for being gang raped. She has been fined Rs12,000 and her cattle has also been seized, reports NDTV.

The victim has been advised to commit suicide either by hanging herself or consuming poison. She has been beaten up by by the villagers, who have also broken down by the villagers.

The villagers are determined to punish the poor construction worker by making her leave the village.

Student kills himself after mother's scolding

INDIA: A grade 10 student in New Delhi killed himself by hanging after his mother brought him to task for not studying hard.

The 16-year-old's board examinations were on. He did not leave behind any suicide note, reports NDTV.

The mother was not at home at the time of incident and had gone grocery shopping. She returned home to find her son hanging from a ceiling fan in one of the rooms.

Maid, 16, gets 10 years for killing 'demanding' boss

SINGAPORE: An impatient, demanding and verbally abusive employer hired a 16-year-old housemaid. However, she could not nothing right and within five days of starting work, she was thinking of ending her employer's life, reports The New Paper. 

The young maid had lived a sheltered life in a village in Indonesia and found it very hard to cope up with the pressures of her new job. Her father had forged her passport and changed her age from 16 to 23 to ensure that she gets employment as a maid in Singapore. 

However, she was too young to handle the abuse and dissatisfaction of her emoployer. She ended up strangling the 59-year-old woman to death.

The maid is on trial for murder in Singapore.

71-year-old man arrested with 40,000 fake Viagra pills

SOUTH KOREA: A 71-year-old former law enforcement officer from South Korea was arrested Wednesday, days after customs officers found his luggage and golf bag stuffed with nearly 40,000 phony Viagra and other erectile dysfunction pills at Los Angeles International Airport, federal authorities said.

Kil Jun Lee was returning from a trip to South Korea on Feb. 25 when the officers at LAX found 29,827 fake Viagra tablets, 8,993 fake Cialis pills and 793 counterfeit Levitra tablets concealed in packets of aluminum foil and valued at more than $700,000, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement.
Asked whether the medication was for his own use, Lee told officers he had a heart condition, and if he used all the pills it would kill him, according to the criminal complaint.

An analysis by a federal forensics lab showed that none of the pills matched the ingredients in the real thing.

He was arrested at his Los Angeles apartment Wednesday morning by agents from Homeland Security Investigations. "When it comes to counterfeit pharmaceutical products, never has the expression 'buyer beware' been more true," Claude Arnold, special agent in charge for HSI Los Angeles said in a statement.
Lee was charged with trafficking in counterfeit goods and was scheduled to make his initial appearance in court later Wednesday, though it was not immediately clear whether he has hired an attorney or entered a plea.

Wedded bliss for Van Dyke, 86

MALIBU: Dick Van Dyke is a very happy newlywed at age 86, his spokesman says.

Van Dyke and make-up artist Arlene Silver, 40, were married in a small Leap Day ceremony at a Malibu chapel near the actor's home, publicist Bob Palmer said.

"I've never seen him happier. She adds a lot to his life," he said, adding that the two have much in common, including a love of singing.

Members of Silver's family and some of Van Dyke's close friends were on hand for the intimate wedding. Van Dyke suggested the couple may hold a bigger ceremony in the future, Palmer said.

Silver and the stage, film and TV star became friends about five years ago after meeting at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, Palmer said yesterday.

Michelle Triola Marvin, Van Dyke's partner of 30 years, died in October 2009 at age 76.

Van Dyke gained fame in the musical Bye Bye Birdie, for which he won a Tony Award in 1961, and starred in the 1963 film based on the play. His other film credits include Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961-1966) made him a TV star, and he's proved an enduring one: His other series include Diagnosis Murder (1993-2002) and made for television films such as 2008's Murder 101: New Age.

Van Dyke, who had a long-time marriage that ended in divorce, has four children.

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