Bar owners arrested, teenagers rounded up after karaoke raid

Ladyboy at Nana Plaza in Bangkok. Photo: tausend und eins, fotografie / flickr.
Nine sex workers, including two 16-year-old girls and four 17-year-olds, were rounded up at a karaoke bar in Samut Prakan’s Bang Sao Thong district on Thursday night.
Administrative officials led by an Interior Ministry-assigned task force raided the bar after an anti-human trafficking non-governmental organisation complained that it might be providing underage prostitution services.
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By The Nation