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  • THAILAND

    Crew rescue casts long shadow

    News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 12/08/2019

    » Last week's rescue of 18 Thai fishermen from a stricken vessel drifting without fuel in the sea off Somalia has raised concerns over a hidden form of human trafficking.

  • THAILAND

    Move Forward ahead in donation race

    News, Published on 21/10/2023

    » Education: Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn will chair an international conference on mathematics and science education from Oct 30-Nov 1 in Bangkok, said Education Minister Pol Gen Permpoon Chidchob.

  • LIFE

    Staying afloat on a sea of despair

    Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 13/12/2019

    » Chakra (Sarm Heng) is a Cambodian peasant boy who wants to escape a rural existence that offers him no future. "How's Thailand?" he asks a friend who returns from working at a construction site in Bangkok. "If you work hard, there's no problem," his friend assures him. Through trafficking agents, Chakra is smuggled across the border, but instead of being sent to a factory or a construction site, the boy is thrown onto a fishing trawler and forced to work without pay in conditions resembling a floating prison.

  • THAILAND

    Drug trafficker arrested for speed and meth

    News, Published on 18/09/2020

    » Phatthalung: A suspected big-time drug trafficker was arrested yesterday in Bang Kaeo district for trafficking 228,000 speed pills and 1 kilogramme of crystal meth from Khon Kaen to the South.

  • OPINION

    Graft doubts

    Published on 16/10/2023

    » Re: "Senate blocks Upakit probe", (BP, Oct 10).

  • THAILAND

    DSI wildlife efforts bag big game

    News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 24/01/2018

    » The arrest of wildlife trafficking kingpin Boonchai Bach in Nakhon Phanom last Friday received international media attention. Mr Boonchai was a member of a notorious Southeast Asian trafficking syndicate known as "Hydra", which was a major trader of illegal ivory, pangolin, tiger, prayoon wood, and tiger and rhino horns.

  • OPINION

    Govt leaves Thamanat sore to fester

    News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 16/09/2019

    » Deputy Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Thamanat Prompow must have been a valuable asset of the government to justify both Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam coming to his defence over his criminal past in connection with a drug trafficking case in Australia about three decades ago and over his questionable educational background while other cabinet ministers keep their distance from the scandal.

  • THAILAND

    770,000 migrant workers being 'legalised'

    News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 21/08/2017

    » The government is processing more than 770,000 illegal migrant workers who decided to register with the state in their bid to stay in the country, Employment Department director-general Waranon Pitiwan says.

  • THAILAND

    'Trafficker' nabbed on fishing boat

    News, Post Reporters, Published on 20/11/2017

    » A key suspect in a human trafficking case involving forced labour on a fishing trawler operating in Indonesian waters has been arrested aboard a fishing boat off Nakhon Si Thammarat, authorities said yesterday.

  • THAILAND

    US to support Thai wildlife

    News, Prangthong Jitcharoenkul, Published on 05/03/2017

    » America's support for anti-animal trafficking efforts will remain concentrated along Thailand's western border with Myanmar -- a major trafficking point for wildlife originating in South Asia, said US Deputy Assistant Secretary Daniel Foote, from the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL).

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