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10 members of Thai ID fraud gang, including 6 govt officials, arrested
Published on 12/09/2025
» Ten people, including six government officials, involved in allegedly forging Thai ID cards for stateless people and foreign nationals have been arrested separately in Bangkok and three other provinces.
Bangkok Bank tightens account rules for some foreigners
Published on 28/05/2025
» Bangkok Bank has adopted stricter requirements for opening new deposit accounts in Thailand for foreign customers, affecting tourists and potentially any expats who do not hold long-term visas.
US must change course with Myanmar
Oped, Brahma Chellaney, Published on 11/04/2025
» Myanmar needs help. After more than four years of brutal civil war, the country has been hit by a 7.7-magnitude earthquake, the strongest it has suffered since 1946. The resulting humanitarian crisis is dire, and continues to escalate, but despite an extraordinary appeal for international aid from Myanmar's military ruler, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the US has largely failed to deliver.
Trump's tariffs will end in tears all round
News, Koichi Hamada, Published on 24/03/2025
» If US President Donald Trump is skilled at anything, it is demagoguery. By stoking voters' fears and prejudices, he manages to win support for, or distract from, extreme policies that benefit himself, his family, and his (mostly ultra-rich) cronies, and cause serious harm to virtually everyone else. The key to his success is knowing which buttons to push.
House urged to act fast to end trafficking
Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 17/03/2025
» Ten human trafficking victims who were rescued from a Chinese scam syndicate in Cambodia petitioned the House of Representatives to take urgent action to crack down on criminal networks operating along the border.
Thai authorities struggle to sort scammers from victims
Published on 02/03/2025
» Authorities are rushing to identify which of the 119 Thai nationals released from scam call centres in Cambodia and deported back to Thailand on Saturday were actual victims of human trafficking and who went there voluntarily.
East Asia braces for Trump's second term
Oped, Published on 08/02/2025
» The first two weeks of US President Donald Trump's second term were marked by a flurry of directives and executive orders.
New plan to combat scammers
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 04/02/2025
» The government will slash electricity supplies to areas in Myanmar that are suspected of being used by criminal syndicates to run their operations by 50%, according to Defence Minister Phumtham Wechayachai on Monday.
Nay Pyi Taw's goals still out of reach
Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 04/02/2025
» As Myanmar's crisis enters its fifth year this week, there is still no light at the end of the tunnel.
China families appeal to free relatives held by scam gangs in Myanmar
Published on 22/01/2025
» BEIJING/BANGKOK - The abduction and cross-border rescue had all the makings of the kind of action script struggling Chinese actor Wang Xing had hoped to land – only not as a reality star.