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Cambodians voice persecution fears
News, Published on 16/06/2014
» Sa Kaeo: Migrant workers streaming back home across the border to Cambodia admit to fearing persecution, as the junta struggles to quash rumours of a looming military crackdown on foreign labour.
Call to boost domestic staff welfare
News, Penchan Charoensuthipan, Published on 16/06/2014
» Activists representing vulnerable low-income workers have urged the Labour Ministry to do more to enforce a ministerial regulation protecting domestic helpers.
Agencies discuss ways to free Veera
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 18/06/2014
» State agencies are looking at ways to secure the release of Thai Patriots Network coordinator Veera Somkhwamkid, sentenced to eight years in jail for espionage by a Cambodian court in February, 2011.
Don Sahong dam runs into trouble
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 26/06/2014
» Thailand will reaffirm at the Mekong River Commission (MRC) meeting today that Laos' Don Sahong hydro-power dam project must undergo a consultation process of member states before Vientiane can move ahead with its construction.
Judgement scuppers Yingluck, Surapong summit trip
News, Achara Ashayagachat, Published on 08/05/2014
» Former caretaker prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra and former caretaker deputy prime minister and foreign minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul are unable to attend the 24th Asean Summit after being stripped of their positions by the Constitutional Court yesterday.
Anti-China rage spreads from Vietnam to Ratchada
News, Published on 16/05/2014
» About a dozen Vietnamese students and Thais of Vietnamese origin yesterday protested in front of the Chinese embassy against Beijing's deployment of an oil rig in contested waters.
Hijacked oil tanker limps back into port
News, Published on 03/06/2014
» A Thai oil tanker that was hijacked last week on its way from Singapore to Indonesia arrived safely in Chon Buri’s Sri Racha district on Sunday evening, police said yesterday.
Chinese grass plan to help poor
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 02/06/2014
» A royal patronage office, calling itself as the Office of Under Royal Graciousness, will introduce a newly developed grass from China in a pilot project to help the poor.
Obama: 'No apologies' for GI swop
News, AFP, Published on 06/06/2014
» President Barack Obama vehemently refused to apologise Thursday for doing a prisoner trade with the Taliban to free a US soldier, despite a fierce political storm over the deal in Washington.
China sweeps Tiananmen off the Net
News, AFP, Published on 06/06/2014
» China's state censors on Thursday scrubbed the Internet of references to commemorations of the Tiananmen crackdown including a huge vigil in Hong Kong, extending a campaign of repression that has seen dozens of critics detained.