News: Bangkok

The barely seaworthy Sun Sea eluded authorities for months, and baffled officials warn more are likely to come to Canada Whispers about a boat headed to Canada began long ago in Thailand’s small and closely knit Tamil community. Among the regulars at the New Madras Café – a Tamil restaurant in the bustling commercial heart of Bangkok that serves roti, curry and lassis under photographs of the beaches of the Tamil heartland in northern Sri Lanka – there was frequent talk that the infamous Tamil Tigers, or at least some of their ex-operatives, were planning something: A money-raising operation that would also help the organization regroup after its devastating defeat ended Sri Lanka's three-decade civil war.