Restricting activities denied:

China denied on Wednesday that the government had restricted the activities of a visiting United Nations-appointed human rights envoy.

Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, said the Chinese government interfered with his work during a visit to China by BANGKOK, Aug 24, (AFP): A gang of foreign criminals stole millions of baht by hacking a Thai bank’s ATM network in a theft believed linked to a similar one in Taiwan, police said Wednesday.

The hackers made off with at least 12 million baht ($346,000) by inserting cards installed with malware into multiple cash machines run by Thailand’s state-run Government Savings Bank (GSB) in late July.

The theft came shortly after Taiwan announced that a group of foreigners had managed to steal $2.5 million from cash machines using a similar method.