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Sadao police chief transferred for dirty station
Wichayant Boonchote, Published on 19/10/2013
» SONGKHLA - A dirty police station has cost the chief of Sadao district his position, as a campaign to clean up the image of the force nationwide gains momentum.
500,000 people 'enslaved' in Thailand
Published on 17/10/2013
» Thailand has the highest prevalence of modern slavery in Southeast Asia with up to half a million people living in forced servitude, according to a new index by international charity the Walk Free Foundation.
Hospital, officials defend rejection of miscarriage mum
Online Reporters, Published on 14/10/2013
» Rajavithi Hospital, public health and social security officials on Monday defended a decision not to admit a new mother who was reported to be bleeding after earlier being turned down by another hospital, giving birth at home and watching her premature baby die .
Bodies of 13 Myanmar migrants found
Online Reporters, Published on 13/10/2013
» The marine police have managed to recover 13 bodies of Myanmar migrants whose boat was reportedly sunk by a strong storm in the Andaman Sea off the Ranong coast on Wednesday night.
Conditions 'not right' to send home refugees
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 03/10/2013
» Hundreds of thousands of refugees along the Thai-Myanmar border face the prospect of spending more time in camps because conditions are not yet conducive for their organised return.
Briton Hall faces third libel charge
Published on 30/09/2013
» Natural Fruit Co has filed a third defamation charge against migrant rights advocate Andy Hall.
Govt urged to safeguard child migrants
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 28/09/2013
» Human rights advocates are urging the government to protect child migrants from being placed in detention centres, where their rights are often violated.
Neighbours plan border health boost
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 22/09/2013
» MANDALAY, MYANMAR : Thailand and Myanmar have launched a three-year joint action plan to improve public health along the border and for Myanmar migrants in Thailand.
Activist steps in to aid migrant workers
Published on 16/09/2013
» A labour activist has voiced concern over the anticipated massive return of Myanmar migrant workers to their country to get new ID cards as Myanmar authorities will conduct a new population census survey next year.
Deportation process to begin
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 12/09/2013
» SURAT THANI : Immigration officials will take statements from more than 1,700 Rohingya migrants in detention centres nationwide to arrange their deportation as resettlement in a third country is looking increasingly unlikely.