CHIANG MAI – Karl Joseph Kraus a 93 year old Australian man on trial for child sex offenses in Thailand has had his case suspended for...
NORTH KOREA – The first time Yoon Hee was abandoned, she was an infant. She was born in a village near North Korea’s sacred Mount Baekdu,...
IOWA USA – The first Chin Burmese student arrived at Wilma Sime Roundy Elementary School three years ago, a smiling preschooler whose father often checked...
CHIANG MAI – 93-year-old Australian Karl Joseph Kraus appeared back in a Chiang Mai court this week accused of raping four sisters while living in Chiang...
BANGKOK – The US Department of State has released a highly critical report detailing what it regards as Thailand’s human rights failings. The report, released last...
BANGKOK – Criminal defamation charges against a prominent labor activist violate his right to free speech and will have a chilling effect on investigations of...
THON MIN YAR – Deep in the lawless mountains of the Golden Triangle, sloping fields of illegal poppies have just been scraped dry for opium....
CHIANGMAI – Lawyers for 93-year-old Australian citizen Karl Joseph Kraus accused of multiple sex abuse of children argued in Chiang Mai court Monday that he...
BANGKOK – Her employer’s brother raped her repeatedly for four months until Noi, 17, mustered the courage to press charges, but courage, she discovered, has...
KAMPHAENG – A Thai couple accused of kidnapping, torturing and enslaving a 12-year-old Karen girl for over five years, are on the run from authorities...
CHINA – A nine-year-old Chinese student has become one of the world’s youngest mothers after giving birth to a healthy baby boy. The unidentified girl...
MYANMAR – International and local human rights groups have demanded the USA and UK pressure Thein Sein’s government to stop the Burma Army’s use of...
THAILAND SOUTH -A teachers’ association in insurgency-plagued southern Thailand said hundreds of schools would be closed on Thursday and Friday after two teachers were shot...
CHIANGRAI – The Royal Thai Police have arrest two men for selling yaba to students at a school in Chiang Rai Province, one of them...
BANGKOK – It appears that nothing can legally be done to prevent the reentry to Israel in a few months of convicted murderer Eli Cohen. He...
VANCOUVER – A convicted pedophile who was once the subject of an international manhunt for allegedly posting his sexual assaults of children online after hiding...
Chiangrai Times – A 93-year-old Australian man attempted to escape charges that he raped four young Thai sisters by fleeing illegally into Myanmar, Thai police...
Chiangrai Times – John Alty from Scotland has been suspected of running an international human trafficking racket has been deported from Thailand. John Alty, 57,...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Myanmar (Burma) has avoided the rapid, often rampant development seen in Thailand and other parts of Asia because of decades of isolation...
CHIANGRAI TIMES – Sold into a brothel as a child, Cambodian activist Somaly Mam has become one of the most recognisable, glamorous and controversial faces...