Quotes of the Week

'He avoided further questioning by seemingly becoming obsessed yet again by ghosts and by praying to chase away the ghost.'

Prosecutor Paul Madigan, describing how chef Somphong Arancharatorn, 42, told police he was driven by a ghost to commit burglary

'The international body was not impressed to hear of the error and neither were the exhibitors from Hong Kong who are going to Bangkok.'

Hong Kong Philatelic Society chairman Andrew Cheung, angry about a glaring error printed on a first-day cover that said the 20th Asian International Stamp Exhibition in Bangkok was under the patronage of the Federation Internationale de Philatelie when in fact it had nothing to do with the exhibition

'The young lady who used urine on her skin may look strange to us. But it is a traditional remedy in her own home country.'

Defence lawyer Michael Vidler, representing Indonesian maid Manik, 29, who pleaded guilty and was jailed for six days on a charge of administering poison or other destructive or noxious thing with intent to injure after claiming that she accidentally splashed her urine, intended for her own facial treatment, on a cup of drinking water she gave to her employer