An ex-detective is tracking down knock-offs to counter a dangerous trade. In his second-floor office at an industrial park 30 miles southwest of London, Tim Ramsey sits down at his laptop and heads to a website called Agora, where he pages through lists of prescription drugs for ailments like cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. Choosing…
with Clarissa Batino Along the narrow roads leading into the Philippine village of Ibabao, billboards highlight traditional crafts such as baking cassava cakes, rope making, and sea-shell jewelry. There’s no mention of a less salubrious trade that has swept the area in recent years: child porn. The area has developed a reputation as a global…
Sweetie looks much like other unfortunate young Filipinas. Just 10 years old, her user profile shows, she spends her days online fielding requests from men who offer her money to perform sexual acts in front of a webcam. When she logs on, invitations pour in — “Are you a working girl?” or “I’m into girls…
OCT 30, 2013 LONDON — Last year, John Malone bought Humewood Castle, a neo-Gothic jumble of towers, gables, and turrets at the foot of Ireland’s Wicklow mountains. The landscape of forest and heath could hardly be more different from Colorado’s high plains, where the cable cowboy owns thousands of acres — but it reflects a…
Oct 25, 2010 LONDON — Photographs of three murdered journalists line the glass cabinet at the entrance of Alexander Lebedev’s Novaya Gazeta newspaper in Moscow, below a shelf with a computer Mikhail Gorbachev once used. The portraits, including one of Anna Politkovskaya, gunned down four years ago this month, are a reminder that although Russian…