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Brazil sues China's BYD over 'slavery' conditions on build site
AFP, Published on 30/05/2025
» RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian prosecutors are suing Chinese electric car giant BYD and two contracting companies for human trafficking and alleged slave labour conditions at a build site, according to legal documents seen by AFP on Thursday.
Brazil sues EV giant BYD over ‘slavery’ conditions at plant
Bloomberg News, Published on 28/05/2025
» SAO PAULO — Brazilian labour prosecutors are suing Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker BYD (Build Your Dreams) Company and two contractors over allegations of slave labour and human trafficking at the construction site of a manufacturing plant.
Daughter of detained Uyghur scholar spotlights Chinese oppression
Kyodo News, Published on 06/03/2025
» TOKYO — The daughter of Uyghur economist Ilham Tohti, who was given a life sentence on separatism-related charges in China in 2014, said recently her ongoing goal is to ensure as many people as possible are aware of the oppression her people have suffered.
Hope dies in Thailand's broken system
Oped, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 28/02/2025
» A woman, stunned, her husband holding her hand as she walks down the courthouse stairs. Prof Pirongrong Ramasoota, a respected scholar and commissioner of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), has been sentenced to two years in jail. Her crime? Having a dispute with a corporate giant during her work as a state media regulator.
Border power cut, but problems remain
Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 11/02/2025
» Hooray. After nearly a fortnight of to-and-fro brinkmanship and passing the buck among Thai agencies, the Thai government finally cut power to five border towns in Myanmar last week.
Thai waters in peril
Oped, Editorial, Published on 15/01/2025
» Thailand's waterways and seas both face ecological crises that could devastate ecosystems, food security, and millions of livelihoods if left unchecked. Two protests this week reflect the urgency of these issues. Small-scale fishermen and environmentalists have gathered at the Senate to oppose an amendment to the Fisheries Act allowing trawlers to sweep clean the sea. Meanwhile, fishermen and aquaculture farmers from 19 provinces have rallied at Government House, demanding the government address the spread of the invasive blackchin tilapia, or pla mor khang dam in Thai, a fish wreaking havoc in river ecosystems across the country.
Indonesia jails official who kept slaves in cages on plantation
Published on 26/11/2024
» JAKARTA - Indonesia's Supreme Court jailed a former government official accused of human trafficking for four years, reversing a lower court decision to acquit him after people were found in cages in his palm oil plantation.
King Charles acknowledges Commonwealth's 'painful' history with slavery
Reuters, Published on 25/10/2024
» APIA - Britain's King Charles said on Friday the Commonwealth should acknowledge its "painful" history, as African and Caribbean nations continue to advocate for reparations for the country's role in the transatlantic slave trade.
Decade-old sketch leads to woman's arrest
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 23/09/2024
» Police with the Anti Trafficking in Persons Division (ATPD) of the Central Investigation Bureau spent one month looking through loads of files to catch the last suspect in a decade-old human trafficking case. They had only one clue -- a sketch of an anonymous woman.
Human trafficking suspect arrested after 12 years on the run
Published on 18/09/2024
» Police have arrested a woman on charges of human trafficking in connection with forced labour on fishing boats after she was on the run for more than a decade.