A college student tried to smuggle drugs to Japan from Cambodia, the Japanese authorities say. The student donned a set of billowing Buddhist monk robes to mask the drugs, per the authorities. The ...
Two Buddhist monks walked into a rice shop in Southern Thailand, stole the shop owners iphone and hid it under their orange robes. The two men went into the shop under the pretence of seeking donation ...
Earlier this week, a Buddhist monk in Fukui, Japan, received a traffic ticket for driving in his monastic robe. Though he told the Yomiuri Shimbun he’d been driving that way for 20 years without ...
BANGKOK – At a Buddhist temple south of Bangkok, a monk watches as a machine presses down on thousands of water bottles, before a giant bale of crushed plastic rolls out with a thud. The plastic is ...
COLOMBO, March 22 (Reuters) - A Buddhist monk who applied to join Sri Lanka's police force and carry a gun has been turned down -- because he wouldn't give up his saffron robes. The monk applied for a ...