January -- 7 items
February -- 11 items
March -- 12 items, all of which are
April -- 19 items, all of which are
May -- coming soon

January 2010

04 JAN....UNITED KINGDOM: Smacking 'makes your child more successful'
Claims made for not spanking are not consistent with the data, finds study

06 JAN....UNITED STATES: Study: Spanking may not be all bad for children (with video clip)
Spanked kids had highest rate of academic achievement

11 JAN....MALAYSIA: Maintain strict discipline to achieve excellence, principals told
Caning is "an influential factor in all successful schools"

13 JAN....CANADA: A good spanking
Columnist considers research into spanking and cultural differences

14 JAN....CANADA: Spanking bans: bad for kids and society
Don't diminish parental rights, warns writer

22 JAN....UNITED STATES: Spare the Spanking, Spoil the Report Card?
Study "undermines rationale for banning spanking", says writer

27 JAN....BOTSWANA: Police Commissioner to hand two flogging dockets to DPP
Attorney-General lays down the law on JCP

February 2010

03 FEB....BOTSWANA: Bailiffs to administer corporal punishment
Courts are recruiting applicants to deliver canings

03 FEB....UNITED KINGDOM: Registrar offered fake degrees for spanking
Suspended sentence for man who filmed himself caning women

04 FEB....UNITED STATES: School Board asks: To spank or not to spank?
Paddling at issue in a Florida district

05 FEB....PAKISTAN: New video shows Taliban flogging men, boy (with video clip)
Offenders are filmed receiving public unofficial JCP

05 FEB....UNITED STATES: Paddling students still common in New Mexico (with video clip)
Mother claims boy's punishment was excessive

06 FEB....UNITED STATES: Some Ky. schools still use paddling as disciplinary measure for students (with video clip)
Suspensions "have not been effective"

10 FEB....UNITED STATES: La Vega principal's arrest puts spotlight on corporal punishment policies
650 Texas school districts allow paddling

17 FEB....UNITED STATES: Teacher suspended without pay for spanking student
Alabama district permits it, but parent had asked for exemption

18 FEB....MALAYSIA: 3 women caned for having illicit sex
First-ever religious CP of women is carried out

18 FEB....TONGA: Tongan teens appeal flogging
Two boys sentenced to be whipped

19 FEB....MALAYSIA: Caning 'has done us a world of good'
Women say they are grateful for punishment

March 2010

All the items for March are

02 MAR....UNITED STATES: Fed suit seeks state paddling ban
Paddled schoolboy, 16, wants Mississippi to outlaw school CP

03 MAR....NIGERIA: Student caned for stealing goat
Court order of 12 strokes for 21-year-old is carried out in public

04 MAR....UNITED STATES: Teachers in Fountain Lake want corporal punishment (with video clip)
40 Arkansas teachers say "bring back spanking"

09 MAR....SINGAPORE: 25 years' jail, 24 strokes for rapist
Court orders maximum penalty for 27-year-old who bound and gagged his victim

10 MAR....UNITED STATES: To spank or not: Gaston one of few school districts still using the paddle (with video clip)
Map shows incidence of school CP in different N. Carolina counties

11 MAR....SINGAPORE: Geylang knife attack: Jail, caning for gang of 7 (illustrated)
Seven young gangsters, pictured, receive heavy caning sentences after knife fight leads to death

11 MAR....UNITED STATES: Hess: No criminal case at reform school (illustrated)
No proof that long-ago Florida spankings were abusive, says state; 1974 photo shows paddle and strap

15 MAR....UNITED STATES: Columbus County Schools: Spanking and the drop-out rate (with video clip)
A district in North Carolina that uses the paddle has fewer school drop-outs

16 MAR....BOTSWANA: "Give me back my trousers"
27-year-old gets three strokes for attacking his cousin in domestic dispute

19 MAR....BOTSWANA: The wages of theft
"Three strokes on the bare buttocks" for thief, 24

21 MAR....AUSTRALIA: Australia to defy the ban
Govt rejects UN pressure to outlaw spanking at home

29 MAR....MYANMAR (BURMA): Burma bus company told to 'stop caning drivers'
On-the-spot corporal punishment for drivers and conductors who let too many passengers on buses

April 2010

All the items for April are

01 APR....UNITED STATES: Senior Suspended For Skimpy Prom Dress (with video clip)
17 students paddled in AL for inappropriate attire

08 APR....MALAYSIA: Cook gets one year, whipping for consuming liquor (illustrated)
24-year-old, pictured, gets rare Shariah caning sentence for alcohol

08 APR....SINGAPORE: Duo get jail, cane for loan shark activities (illustrated)
Twentysomethings, pictured, sentenced to receive 8 and 10 strokes

13 APR....MALAYSIA: Man who splashed acid on wife gets six years' jail (illustrated)
And two strokes of rotan for husband, 47, pictured

14 APR....AUSTRALIA: Give 'em a smack
Northern Territory hasn't outlawed school CP, but officials say it's not used

14 APR....UNITED STATES: School Board's ban on paddling draws mixed reviews
A Florida school board abandons CP

15 APR....UNITED STATES: Bill to limit school paddlings shelved
Louisiana House rejects limitations on school CP

15 APR....UNITED STATES: Houston Man Paddles New York Congresswoman (with video clip)
But only metaphorically. Federal bill seeks to outlaw school CP

16 APR....MALAYSIA: Man gets jail, rotan for cheating company staff (illustrated)
39-year-old, pictured, ordered to receive 7 strokes of the cane

16 APR....SWAZILAND: Only 4 strokes please - Education Ministry
Article sets out official rules for school canings

16 APR....UNITED STATES: Paddling still used as punishment in schools (with video clip)
Report on CP in Texas

16 APR....UNITED STATES: Texas city takes a swat at student misbehavior with an old custom
Restoration of CP in Temple, TX is a success

18 APR....UNITED STATES: High school paddling: 'It Works' teachers say (with video clip)
Students interviewed in Temple, TX

19 APR....UNITED STATES: Corporal Punishment legal in Texas, lawmaker in D.C. wants to ban it (with video clip)
Texas school districts' paddling policies vary

21 APR....MALAYSIA: Youth gets five years, two strokes for statutory rape (illustrated)
19-year-old, pictured, had sex with underage girl

24 APR....UNITED STATES: Paddling not controversial at local schools
Only with parental permission in many Texas districts

27 APR....US VIRGIN ISLANDS: Teachers protest superintendent's policies
Local authority trying to stop paddling, but teachers object

28 APR....UNITED STATES: Parent: Written policy on spanking needed
CP policy challenged in a N. Carolina district

29 APR....UNITED STATES: When does discipline become a crime? (illustrated)
Father, 37, pictured, spanked boy, 12, for fifteen minutes

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