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Australia launches $55m anti-trafficking effort for Asean
Associated Press, Published on 01/08/2019
» Australia on Thursday launched a new A$80-million (US$55 million) programme to help Southeast Asian nations combat human trafficking.
Authorities urged to investigate attacks on activists
Associated Press, Published on 03/07/2019
» Amnesty International submitted open letters to Thailand's defence minister and its police commissioner asking them to bring to justice attackers against three vocal pro-democracy activists who have faced physical abuse on multiple occasions since the military seized power in a coup in 2014.
Araibi's wife: Please help my husband come home
Associated Press, Published on 31/01/2019
» A campaign to stop Thailand from extraditing to Bahrain a detained soccer player who has refugee status in Australia has gotten a personal touch, with a letter from the jailed man's wife delivered to the Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.
Fifa to Prayut: Release Bahraini footballer
Associated Press, Published on 25/01/2019
» World football's nominal leaders have asked Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and the government to release the Bahraini football player embroiled in extradition proceedings despite having refugee status in Australia.
Australia football player says detained refugee is losing hope
Associated Press, Published on 22/01/2019
» A former Australian soccer player urged the sport's governing bodies on Tuesday to push for the release of a Bahraini refugee athlete detained in Thailand while it weighs his extradition.
Australia praises Thai action on Saudi runaway
Associated Press, Published on 10/01/2019
» Australia's foreign minister praised Thailand on Thursday for its handling of a young Saudi woman who fled her family to seek asylum in Australia, but also reminded it of continuing concern about a Bahraini football player granted asylum in Australia who remains in Thai detention.
Activists demand Thailand release refugee footballer
Associated Press, Published on 22/12/2018
» SYDNEY: Human rights groups and former football players have called on Fifa and the Australian government to intervene to stop a Melbourne-based refugee and semi-professional footballer from being extradited from Thailand to Bahrain.
US father tossed dead baby in river, fled to Thailand
Associated Press, Published on 09/08/2018
» NEW YORK: A Bronx dad hopped a plane to Thailand after carrying his dead 7-month-old baby around New York City in a backpack and tossing the boy's body into the East River near the Brooklyn Bridge and other tourist hotspots, police said Wednesday.
Greenpeace: Paper giant cut forests during conservation pact
Associated Press, Published on 16/05/2018
» Greenpeace has ended a five-year truce with one of the world's largest paper companies, accusing it of cutting down tropical forests in Indonesia during the entire time the two were cooperating on conservation.
Two suspected insurgents killed in Pattani
Associated Press, Published on 10/04/2018
» Police said they shot and killed two suspected Muslim insurgents who ambushed a police unit Tuesday in the southern province of Pattani, a day after bombs in a neighbouring province injured 12 people.