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Fighting Thailand's 'scamdemic'
News, Published on 17/05/2023
» The April 8 arrest in Bangkok of a Chinese woman with Thai citizenship alleged to be the leader of a criminal syndicate involved in fraud, surrogacy and human trafficking is just one recent example of an increasingly sophisticated crime wave inside Thailand.
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Migrants face changing climate
Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 01/07/2018
» The arrival of May once reminded Lin Na that the first rain of the year was on its way. The ground in her small village of Prey Veng province in southern Cambodia would start to soften, dampened by rainfall. This time each year, she would help her family cultivate a two-hectare rice field, the main source of food and income for them throughout the year.
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Slave labourer fights back
Spectrum, Published on 26/06/2016
» Keo Rotha is sitting in his small brick house in a quiet village in Cambodia's Pursat province, surrounded by coconut trees and a bamboo fence, looking at his old phone.
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Exodus chapter two: the fallout
Spectrum, Published on 22/06/2014
» Pol Col Subin Boonlek, a stocky energetic man in his fifties, thought he had seen the worst of the frenetic exodus of Cambodian migrant workers across the Aranyaprathet border crossing.
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Young lives for sale
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 29/06/2014
» When Fil's mother brought him from Cambodian as a 10-year-old four years ago, her intentions were far from pure — she planned to exploit him as a child beggar around the tourist hotspots of Pattaya.
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Transforming barriers into gateways
Spectrum, Published on 25/05/2014
» The Asean Economic Community that will be formed at the end of 2015 will benefit Thailand and nine other countries by creating more revenue from borderless trade within the region.
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Prejudice in Pattaya sees ladyboys locked out and targeted by cops
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 03/02/2013
» 'NO DURIAN, NO DOG, NO LADYBOY".
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Cambodians queueing for a new future in Thailand
Spectrum, Published on 13/05/2012
» Every day they come in the thousands and crowd under a blazing sun for hours, awaiting a moment that costs them more than two full months' salary _ a passport.
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Youth wasted on beggars' road to Thailand
Spectrum, Published on 20/05/2012
» Dice roll and cards are dealt every day in the seven casinos along the Poipet-Thai border, but just five kilometres away in the ramshackle village of Kbal Spean, gamblers of a different sort are playing for much higher stakes: betting their and their children's lives as they struggle to eke out a meagre living as beggars in Thailand.
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