BANGKOK, Dec 12 – United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) urged an immediate halt to violence against children in Thailand’s restive southern provinces, where an 11-month-old girl was among five people killed in an attack at a Narathiwat tea house on Tuesday. In a statement published on the UNICEF website, Bijaya Rajbhandari, UNICEF Representative in Thailand, […]
BANGKOK, 28 February 2012 (NNT) – According to the National Economic and Social Development Board of Thailand (NESDB), the famous social networking site, facebook, has partly contributed to the cause of unwanted teen pregnancies. The NESDB has revealed that people in the age group of 18-24 are the biggest group of facebook users, accounting for […]
Tens of thousands of undocumented immigrant children in the Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo Island are not being allowed to go to school. Efforts to change this are under way. Early this year, a community-built education center at a refugee village was inaugurated for 300 undocumented children who previously had never attended school. With […]
Bangkok – The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Monday urged the Thai government to crack down on child pornography, which is widely available in Bangkok. ‘The sale of such material is a blatant and serious violation of children’s rights, and it must not be tolerated for another day,’ said Tomoo Hozumi, the UNICEF representative in […]
