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Woman's search for stolen sister
Chanteya Macphail has never seen or spoken to her older sister Jenny, though her sibling's fate weighs heavily in her heart and mind.

BBC America March Highlights: Primetime Original "No Kitchen Required" and the Return of Dramaville's Acclaimed ...
Plus: look for the debut of "Katy Brand's Big Ass Show" and season four of "Kitchen Nightmares."

Who is Kim Schmitz? Megaupload Founder Had $23M Home, 18 Luxury Vehicles and Lots of Cash
Kim Schmitz, founder of Megaupload and otherwise known by his alias "Kim Dotcom," was arrested by the Department of Justice Thursday for content piracy and losses to copyright owners that amount to $500 billion. Schmitz was found by police in his New Zealand mansion's safe room, with what looked like a sawed-off shotgun Detective Inspector Grant Wormald said.

Local fire chiefs fear sky lanterns could spark fires
Known as sky lanterns or aerial luminaries, the devices have been used for years to create massive spectacles of light in Asian countries, particularly Thailand. But now that their popularity has reached the United States, fire officials on the South Shore worry the lanterns could collide with homes and trees and spark fires far from where they are set off.

John Burdett's 'Vulture Peak': Smart and sordid
John Burdett's fifth book starring morally elastic Thai cop Sonchai Jitpleecheep is the usual compelling read with the usual dark undercurrents. The Royal Thai police detective's latest mission: to penetrate and quash the burgeoning pan-Asian trade in body parts.

Gallant cop, reporter on quest hit right notes
It is pleasing to note that among the growing number of Asian-Americans producing works of fiction are authors who specialize in stories of crime and detection. Wisconsin-born Milton K. Ozaki (1913-89), credited as the first of these, published more than two dozen works set mostly in the U.S. Midwest. Living writers who have contributed to this genre include Dale Furutani — the first Asian ...

The Raid on Dotcom's Compound: All the Odd Details
Before seizing nearly $9 million in cash and 18 luxury cars -- including a 1959 pink Cadillac -- police found Megaupload's founder, Kim Dotcom, hiding in a panic room with a sawed off shotgun. Dotcom has been in jail since, and on Monday, a judge ordered him to stay there until Wednesday, when a final ruling on his bail request is due to be made. In the meantime, everyone is gawking at not only ...

Police find upload mogul in $23m mansion's safe room
WELLINGTON: A computer hacker turned online file-sharing tycoon is the man at the centre of an FBI-led crackdown on online piracy.