Samut Sakhon, Thailand (Mizzima) – Migrant workers in Thailand are living in fear amid a police crackdown over the past week that has led to the arrests of more than a thousand migrants in several regions around the country, some said yesterday. Nida, a Mon worker in the Mahachai district of Samut Sakhon, a province […]
Thailand Freezes Accounts to Hit Reds Despite public promises of compromise by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, Thailand’s military-backed government is continuing to tighten the screws on protesters, most recently freezing bank accounts belonging to 83 wealthy suspected supporters of the two-month insurrection which ended in May. “I insist that the government has never intended to […]
Thailand’s anti-government Red Shirt protestors are reportedly preparing to regroup, following their bloody defeat by the military last month. Hundreds of Red Shirt protestors, many of whom support ousted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, have been arrested. But many more are in hiding, with some believed to have sought refuge in Cambodia. The government of […]
Policy makers should start planning now to deal with the social and economic impact of Thailand’s ageing population, economists say. The state and private sectors must develop new facilities, products and services to suit the needs of the elderly, said Worawet Suwanrada, an economics lecturer from Chulalongkorn University, at a seminar yesterday organised by the […]
BANGKOK — The Thai government has moved into the next phase of a campaign against the dissident movement known as the red shirts, freezing the assets of scores of people it says helped finance recent protests and planning to summon them for questioning. Two months of antigovernment demonstrations ended on May 19, when the army […]
A woman with kidney disease has died after receiving an experimental stem cell treatment at a private clinic in Thailand, and a postmortem examination of her kidneys revealed that the treatment was almost certainly responsible for her death. Last week we reported that Costa Rica’s health ministry had closed a stem cell clinic that catered […]
Leading Exhibitor in Thailand to Open Two Theatres in Bangkok in October 2010; Three Additional Locations to Open by End of 2012 BANGKOK, Thailand, Jun 18, 2010 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — IMAX Corporation and Major Cineplex, the leading commercial theatre operator in Thailand, today announced an agreement to install five IMAX digital theatre systems in […]
A British man faces two years jail in Thailand after being filmed taking part in the anti-government protests in Bangkok last month. Jeff Savage, of Tonbridge, Kent, was captured on video encouraging protesters to set fire to the Central World shopping centre. The footage was widely circulated on the internet and the shopping centre was […]
