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ThaiBev showcases sustainable solutions
Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 04/10/2023
» Thai Beverage Plc (ThaiBev) is promoting a number of solutions for sustainable living at the Sustainability Expo (SX2023), which is currently being held at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center in Bangkok.
An 80-year-old shop charmer
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 22/04/2019
» Pracha Jankrajang, aged 80, a customer assistant at the homeware department of Robinson Department Store's Bang Pu branch in Samut Prakan, surprised customer Waraphon Rattanamalai who wondered why a man his age was employed there.
Free border pass for Songkran returnees
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 05/03/2019
» Workers from Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia can return to their countries for the Songkran festival without having to pay a border pass fee, according to a policy committee on tackling migrant worker problems and human trafficking.
Activists want NGOs to monitor fishing
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 18/05/2018
» Labour rights activists Thursday called on the government to allow NGO networks to monitor Port In Port Out (Pipo) centres as part of measures against human trafficking in the fishery industry.
Drawing plans for a new future
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 17/07/2017
» Sathit Limjang, 47, counts down the days until he will be released from Bang Kwang Central Prison and reunited with his 12-year-old daughter.
More migrant children able to hit the books
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 14/06/2017
» Children of migrant labourers are slowly becoming aware of the opportunity of receiving an education in Thailand.
Stranded Thai fishermen fear return
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 25/10/2016
» More than 20 Thai crew members of undocumented fishing trawlers abandoned in Indonesia are reluctant to return home, fearing the cost of travelling will make them indebted again, according to the Labour Rights Promotion Network Foundation (LPN).
Rogue trawlers to face more scrutiny at sea
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 29/12/2014
» The government of Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha is stepping up efforts to regulate fishing trawlers as part of a plan to remove Thailand from the lowest rank in the US's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report.
Fleeing fishermen 'need help'
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 11/12/2014
» Labour rights advocates are urging the government to step up efforts to help hundreds of Thai fishermen believed to have escaped from exploitative work on trawlers to hide on Indonesian islands.
Saved fishermen share plight
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 06/10/2014
» When Wuthisak Tantisuk was approached by a stranger trying to persuade him to work on a fishing boat, he knew he should be cautious about the man’s offer.