PHETCHABUN: A large group of Hmong villagers on Thursday brought a coffin containing the body of a slain drug suspect on a truck into the compound of the city hall in a protest against his extrajudical death. Hmong family of 5, including 3 children, murdered in Tak The group, about 70-strong, submitted a petition addressed […]
TAK: A Hmong family of five, including three children aged between three months and ten years, were found dead in a remote plantation in Wang Chao district on Wednesday morning. The five bodies were found near the Nakhiri stream about 10 kilometres from the centre of Sri Khiri Rak village in tambon Chiang Thong. There […]
A fourth-year student in Lampang was crowned Miss Hill Tribe Beauty Queen at a pageant in the northern province on Tuesday night. Kanyawe Khaophatchaikul, an ethnic Hmong from Lampang’s Muang Pan, was voted the beauty queen for 2018. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
The Lampang provincial court issued an arrest warrant Thursday for a former village head for allegedly raping and blackmailing a 22-year-old ethnic Hmong woman who died on Wednesday night following a suicide attempt on July 17. After questioning several witnesses and compiling evidence, investigators submitted a plea to the court to approve the arrest warrant, […]
CHIANG RAI: The chief of the Hmong Club in Thailand and his family were ambushed Tuesday. The attackers killed his wife and daughter, while the ethnic leader and his son were gravely wounded. Local authorities were informed of the incident at about 5pm Tuesday. Full story: Bangkok Post CHINAPAT CHAIYAMOL BANGKOK POST
CHIANG MAI, 13 October 2016 (NNT) – A honorary consul of the United Kingdom in Chiang Mai province visited a couple of Hmong girls and offered to provide aid for them. Ben Robert Svasti, the U.K. honorary consul attached to Chiang Mai and chairman of FOCUS, visited Tidarat and Kalyani Lawang in provincial seat area […]
Narcotics suppression police have arrested two suspects with 1.9 million methamphetamine pills and 10 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine in Ayutthaya province, police chief Chakthip Chaijinda said at a press conference on Tuesday. Pol Gen Chakthip said the arrest and the huge drug haul followed tips from informants that Hmong ethnic drug couriers would deliver drugs […]
BANGKOK, July 25 – The body of a Thai ethnic minority worker killed earlier this week after being hit by a rocket launched in Gaza will be flown and arrive in Thailand next week, according to an elder sister of the victim. Wanpen Ya-ood said she was informed by the Thai Foreign Affairs Ministry’s Consular […]
