Illegal workers detained in Chiang Mai before being released. (Photo by Cheewin Sattha) CHIANG MAI — A heavy crackdown on undocumented migrants in Thailand...
BANGKOK – An oil tanker has sank near the Maha Chai Gulf in Bangkok’s adjacent Samut Sakhon Province on Tuesday, causing an oil spill in the...
CHIANG RAI – Narcotics Suppression Police have arrested suspected drug traffickers in several cases and seized 3.6 kilograms of heroin, a large number of methamphetamine and...
26,000 people are killed in road accidents every year in Thailand BANGKOK – A total of 39 deaths and 399 injuries in 392 road accidents...
BANGKOK – Western demand for Thai-produced shrimps is fuelling an epidemic of abuses, including child and forced labour, among Burmese migrants working in the poorly-regulated...
BANGKOK – Atris Hussein a Swedish National of Lebanese descent has been sentenced to 2 years and eight months in prison by a Thai court ...
SAMUT SAKHON- A Thai court has recently backed protests by a local community, ordering the closure of a coal company. However, victory was bitter-sweet, with one...
BANGKOK – A Swedish citizen of Lebanese origin denied links to the Hezbollah movement on Tuesday, during his trial on charges of breaking Thailand‘s weapons...
BANGKOK – The head of the Anti-Human Trafficking Division, Pol Maj-General Chawalit Sawaengphuet, yesterday presented two recent arrests, including a suspect who lured a...
CHIANG RAI – Celebrating Songkran this year in 66 provinces across the country celebrating the Thai traditional new year have been designated alcohol-free zones, under a...
JAKARTA – Indonesia will repatriate 10 Cambodian human trafficking victims, who allegedly arrived in the country after being tricked into taking jobs there by agents...
CHIANGRAI – An estimated 5 million methamphetamine tablets and approximately 136 kilograms of ya ice worth a combined total of 2 billion baht has been...
BANGKOK – The Transport Ministry has unveiled a multi-million-baht project to construct Thailand’s longest cable-suspension bridge linking two seaboard provinces of Samut Prakarn and Samut...
SAMUT SAKHON – The government will target the fishery industry to stamp out the use of trafficked and child labour. Centres will be set up...
The implementation of the 300-baht daily minimum wage nationwide would increase labor quality and improve the living conditions
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Thai police seized more than 1.7 million methamphetamine pills at a house in central province of Samut Sakhon, Bangkok Post online reported...
Chiangrai Times – At an age when she should have been in a classroom, Thazin Mon discovered her knack for peeling shrimp. To help support...
Chiangrai Times – Malcolm McVicar, vice-chancellor and president of the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), has spent the past three to four years nurturing a...
Chiangrai Times – A sixteen year old bus conductor stabbed a 36-year-old German tourist after he said that items had been stolen from his luggage,...
Chiangrai Times – One of the most profitable organized crime enterprises on the planet, human trafficking shackles an estimated 1.2 million children and for every...