HONOLULU – Two prominent brothers who operate the second-largest vegetable farm in Hawaii will be sentenced in federal court this week on human-trafficking charges. But two former state governors, community groups, fellow farmers and other supporters are trying to keep them out of prison. The brothers were convicted of shipping 44 labourers from Thailand and […]
The Thai government says it is considering addressing the issue of motorcycle taxis, claiming the drivers have been marginalized by the government for ages. Prime Minister’s Office Minister Satit Wongnongtaey stated that the government is considering a big project that would affect around 300,000 motorcycle taxi drivers across the nation in a bid to take […]
A 61-year-old Frenchman appeared in a Paris court Monday charged with raping or sexually assaulting ten Thai girls aged between six and 11. Jean-Claude Chamoux was arrested after police burst into his hotel room in the Thai resort of Pattaya in 2005 just after he raped an eight-year-old girl to whose mother he had paid […]
Thai institutional group MBK PLC is now offering financing to foreigners on freehold condominiums through its subsidiary MBK Guarantee Ltd. This appears to be an extremely notable development in Thailand, where previously financing was nearly impossible to obtain for foreigners. Loans from THB2 million to THB20 million (US$63,431-634,313) are being offered with monthly payments from […]
BANGKOK, Sept 6 (TNA) – Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said Monday that he has not yet been contacted by the opposition Puea Thai Party to discuss the proposed national reconciliation plan, but asserted he is ready to talk on the condition that there must be no violence. The premier made the remarks after the […]
Former Army chief General Sonthi Boonyarattaglin, who led the September 19, 2006 coup that toppled the Thaksin regime, has admitted that the failure of the post-coup government to continue the “Thaksin economic model” had polarised the country. “Had we followed in the footsteps of Thaksin especially in implementing populist policies, our society would have not […]
Cynics have long claimed that justice in Thailand is a marketable commodity like almost anything else. A current issue involving a wealthy elderly Swede, accused of multiple cases of sexual abuse of children, financially manipulative lawyers perverting the course of justice and a greedy adulterous judge, have cast a ‘cloud of corruptive gloom’ over the […]
BANGKOK, 5 September 2010 (NNT) – Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has tasked the Ministry of Education with presenting proactive plans to tackle gangster students and their street brawls after a nine-year-old boy was shot dead during a fight last week. Speaking in his weekly television program “Confidence in Thailand with Prime Minister Abhisit” airing from […]
