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Minor rescued, traffickers nabbed in cross-border raid
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 31/10/2022
» Authorities have arrested five Thai suspects who allegedly duped a 13-year-old girl into working in a brothel in Malaysia, and in a joint operation rescued her and four other victims, says the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB).
Cops arrest madam at gay sex shop
News, Published on 23/07/2020
» CHIANG MAI: Police have arrested a madam on charges of running a brothel under the guise of a massage shop that caters to homosexual men in downtown Muang district. Two young masseurs were caught in a sting operation on Tuesday night.
Virus misinformation stokes fear in Asia
AFP, Published on 29/05/2020
» HONG KONG: False alerts about a man shot dead at a coronavirus checkpoint, old footage of a supermarket stampede in reports of panic buying, and a 2015 video of a police raid on a brothel recirculated with a misleading claim.
Trio nabbed for luring Lao minors
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 04/01/2020
» Two men and a woman have been charged with luring five Laotian minors into prostitution, after undercover police busted a karaoke brothel in Rayong province.
Diving into sex work
News, Published on 21/07/2019
» Mai Janta, 29, came to Thailand from Shan State with her family when she was a year old. Her brother had been conscripted to the Myanmar army and her family feared that he would never return if he had to join.
Two parlour 'pimps' retract confession
News, Post Reporters, Published on 20/09/2018
» Two defendants in the third criminal case being tried at the Criminal Court in connection with the raid of Victoria Secret massage parlour in January yesterday retracted their confessions to human trafficking and other charges pressed against them.
Cops probed in brothel saga
News, Prasit Tangprasert, Published on 24/08/2018
» Chaiyaphum: Three senior officers from Muang police station have been transferred to inactive posts, pending a seven-day investigation of alleged bribery after the officers failed to act against underage sex trade at a karaoke bar.
More arrests in Victoria's Secret Massage scandal
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 26/07/2018
» Two more suspects in the Victoria's Secret Massage case have been nabbed for allegedly procuring girls for the massage parlour and other wrongdoing as the Department of Special Investigation continues to investigate if there are any links to human traffickers.
More suspects nabbed in Victoria's Secret case
King-oua Laohong, Published on 25/07/2018
» Two more suspects in the Victoria's Secret case have been nabbed for allegedly procuring girls for the massage parlour and involving in illegal assembling as the Department of Special Investigation is making progress in a probe into its link with human traffickers.
Somyot loans expose patronage roots
News, Soonruth Bunyamanee, Published on 07/02/2018
» The admission of former national police chief Somyot Poompunmuang that he borrowed 300 million baht from a fugitive massage parlour tycoon reminds us how deeply the patronage system is entrenched in Thai society.