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Housemaids: Right to day off & holidays
Jon Fernquest, Published on 14/11/2012
» New law gives maids one day off per week & time off when sick. Still not covered by law: minimum wages & work hour limits.
Flood unemployment
Jon Fernquest, Published on 17/02/2012
» Moving to Eastern Seaboard or Korat may be only choice for some Ayutthaya workers who lost jobs during floods. Over age 30 may mean no job anywhere for them.
Lamborghini smuggling scam
Jon Fernquest, Published on 04/06/2013
» Govt officials appear to be involved in complicated web of fraud & tax evasion. License plates of Labour Minister's son on car but plates already cancelled.
Child labour: The worst forms
Jon Fernquest, Published on 06/02/2012
» With removal from US watch list as goal, govt drive to end trafficking & forced labour of children (in seafood industry, as maids, in prostitution, pornography, working with boilers, heavy objects, metal pressing)
(Updated) Big changes coming soon?
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 27/06/2013
» A major cabinet shake-up could come within days as Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra seems likely to follow her older brother's advice to bring in fresh faces to restore the government's popularity.
Who’s the boss?
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 23/09/2011
» Former prime minister Thaksin uses the web application Skype to chair a video meeting with Phue Thai ministers, leading to speculation that he, not his sister, is the real government leader.