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Divers take on 'ghost gear' threatening marine life
Reuters, Published on 20/04/2024
» PHUKET - Beneath the surface of the turquoise waters off a beach on this southern resort island, divers laboriously collect abandoned fishing gear, much of it made from plastic, that is tangled on coral and trapping sea life.
150 Rohingya stranded on leaking boat off Ranong
Reuters, Published on 07/12/2022
» At least 150 ethnic Rohingya people are stranded at sea off Thailand after their boat broke down, activists said on Wednesday, adding that several may have died and urging authorities to rescue the survivors.
Thailand allows visitors back to Maya Bay
Reuters, Published on 04/01/2022
» PHI PHI LEH, Thailand: Thailand has reopened Maya Bay, a white sand beach made famous by the 2000 film "The Beach" starring Leonardo DiCaprio, more than three years after closing it to allow its ecosystem to recover from the impact of thousands of visitors each day.
Deserted beaches lure rare turtles to build most nests in 20 years
Reuters, Published on 20/04/2020
» Rare leatherback sea turtles have built the largest number of nests in two decades on beaches in Phuket and Phang Nga bereft of tourists because of the coronavirus pandemic, environmentalists say.
Stranded Rohingya people linked to trafficking
Reuters, Published on 13/06/2019
» Police said on Thursday there is enough evidence to press human trafficking charges against the captain and crew of a boat carrying 65 Rohingya Muslims that was shipwrecked this week on a southern island.
How two young reporters shook Myanmar
Reuters, Published on 09/08/2018
» YANGON: Late in the afternoon of Dec 12 last year, Wa Lone's cell phone rang. It was a man named Naing Lin, a lance corporal in Myanmar's 8th Security Police Battalion.
Thailand 'preparing to receive' those fleeing Myanmar violence
Reuters, Published on 29/08/2017
» Thailand is preparing to receive people fleeing fighting in Myanmar and send them back "when they are ready", the prime minister said on Tuesday, following a series of attacks by Rohingya Muslim insurgents on Myanmar security forces last week.
Climate change 'threatens fight against illegal fishing'
Reuters, Published on 28/11/2016
» SAMUT SAKHON - Climate change threatens to undermine the government's efforts to combat illegal fishing and avoid a potential European Union ban on exports by the multibillion- dollar seafood industry, environmental groups say.
IOM urges Thailand, Asean to block repeat of migrant crisis
Reuters, Published on 01/12/2015
» Southeast Asian countries were urged on Tuesday to treat migrants landing on their shores humanely and avoid a repeat of this year's disaster in which hundreds of refugees were either lost at sea or died in jungle camps.
No trafficking camps left in South - police
Reuters, Published on 25/05/2015
» Police on Monday said there were no human trafficking camps left in the South following a month-long crackdown and the discovery of seven camps in mountainous jungle near the Thai-Malaysian border.