Peru (ChattahBox) – Thought his obvious guilt in the deaths of two women was bad enough? Turns out Joran Van der Sloot might have been trafficking underage girls to use as sex slaves, including two who are now missing and feared dead. Shortly after his release from an Aruba prison for the disappearance of Natalee […]
Rights groups have asked Thailand’s labour minister to alter a regulation that blocks migrant workers from accessing a government compensation scheme if they are injured in the workplace. Fourteen groups, including international labour unions and the US Committee for Refugees and Immigration (USCRI), signed an open letter on 12 July to Phaithoon Kaeothong asking for […]
THAILAND and Phuket remain destinations where a disproportionate number of British citizens find themselves in trouble, the latest figures issued by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office reveal. According to the report, 292 British citizens died in Thailand in the year to March 31. There were 68 drug arrests and 199 reported ”hospitalisations.” Arrests/detentions totalled 249, […]
BANGKOK, 15 July 2010 (NNT) — A negotiation process between the leaders of the anti-government United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD) and the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) leader kicked off today. Both sides have been embroiled in defamation suits and counter suits in the past two years. UDD leaders Veera Musikapong and Natthawut […]
The Thai government’s new migrant labor policy has seen a rise in police raids on factories that employ migrant workers, especially from Burma, Loas and Cambodia. There are reportedly up to a million unregistered migrant workers in Thailand. Human rights advocates say many workers are now taking steps to meet the new legal requirements to […]
The petition by the Office of the Attorney-General (OAG) asking the Constitution Court to dissolve the Democrat party not only set the ruling party on fire, but also aroused a widespread speculation that a back-up party will or has been set up for the Democrat. Abhisit Vejjajiva, the prime minister as well as the party […]
OAG sues for party dissolution. Democrats under fire over political donation The Office of the Attorney-General has submitted a formal recommendation to the Constitution Court calling for the dissolution of the Democrat Party over an alleged illegal 258 million baht donation. The prosecutors also recommended that the court ban from politics for five years all […]
Cambodia’s Interior Ministry has decided to withhold permission for holding the “Day of Anger” against Thailand in the nation’s capital. The Cambodian government is currently awaiting its Interior Ministry’s decision on whether to allow the nation’s largest labor assembly to hold an event in protest of Thailand’s alleged encroachment on Cambodian territory at the old […]
