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1.6m illegal alien workers register
Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 31/10/2014
» The Department of Employment estimates that 1.6 million illegal alien workers from Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar have registered nationwide in the past four months.
Labour warns tardy employers as migrant registration deadline looms
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 21/09/2014
» Authorities have pledged to get tough with employers who fail to register migrant workers before next month's deadline.
300 Thais flee farms near Gaza Strip
Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 25/07/2014
» About 300 Thai workers have requested they be moved away from farms near the Gaza Strip, where the battle continues between Israeli troops and Palestinian fighters.
Gaza bomb claims poor family's pillar
Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 24/07/2014
» Narakorn Kittiyangkul, the 36-year-old Thai worker killed by a mortar shell near Gaza in Israel on Wednesday, was trying to support his family by taking a chance overseas instead of being a taxi driver in Bangkok.
Thai worker killed in Israel
Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 23/07/2014
» A Thai worker was killed in a rocket attack in Israel on Wednesday, chief of the Employment Department Sumet Mahosot said.
Farmers praise coup makers’ payment of overdue rice funds
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 27/05/2014
» Farmers have praised the coup-makers for paying long-overdue funds owed to them under the rice-pledging scheme.
Father mourns two children killed in Sunday blast
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 25/02/2014
» Tanakorn Yos-ubol, the father who lost two children in Sunday’s grenade attack, only hopes his family’s loss will be the last tragedy of the political violence.
Migrants face high risk of unsafe abortions
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 23/02/2014
» A migrant worker advocacy group has raised concern over the high rate of unplanned pregnancies among migrant workers, resulting in unsafe abortions.
Wife of slain cop pleads for strife to stop
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 20/02/2014
» The widow of a police officer killed in Tuesday’s crackdown on anti-government protesters near Phan Fah Bridge in Bangkok wants such losses in the political conflict to stop.
Migrant kids left in limbo, activists say
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 18/12/2013
» An NGO working on child rights is urging the government to ease regulations to ensure the children of migrant workers are not left stateless.