TAK, 23 June 2014 (NNT) -The Tak Social Development and Human Security Office has called a parade to condemn human trafficking and illegal migrant labor exploitation in Mae Sod district. Tak Governor Somchai Hatayatanti called on the assembled police officers to eliminate human trafficking and the coercion of foreign laborers entering the country illegally. Both […]
CHIANG RAI — Over 500 people participated in a mass Buddhist prayer ceremony in Chiang Rai province to ward off widespread rumours that yet another earthquake will hit the northern region this week. Several hundred people joined the mass chanting of Buddhist incantations, led by 199 monks in the province’s ecclesiastic college yesterday. The academy’s […]
AYUTTHAYA — Police are investigating the case of a woman who was filmed beating her 5-year-old son because he failed to sell enough key rings to foreign tourists in the historic town of Ayutthaya. The investigation came after a video of the woman repeatedly hitting her son was widely circulated on social media. Read more: […]
A cache of arms was found at luxury mansion in Wang Noi district of Ayutthaya province today, police said. The cache comprises an M-79 grenade launcher along with 75 grenades, and a sack filled with road spikes. Read more: thaipbs.or.th
BANGKOK, June 16 – Nearly 100 civil servants and local community leaders in the Thailand’s Northern region of have been involved in drug dealing, according to Provincial Police Region 5. Pol Maj Gen Chamnan Ruadrew, Deputy Commander of Provincial Police Region 5, overseeing the upper Northern provinces, said today that nearly 100 civil servants and […]
Seven Cambodian migrant workers were killed and 13 injured when a pick-up truck in which they were travelling on their way back home in Cambodia skidded out of the highway and crashed into a roadside tree in Chachoengsao province Saturday night. Three of the victims were crushed to death in the truck which turned into […]
TAK, June 9 – Thai drug authorities on Sunday arrested a woman accused of trafficking drugs between Myanmar and Thailand. Read more: MCOT
Chiang Rai authorities seize 1.2 million meth pills, worth Bt360 million, smuggled across Mekong River to Thailand, abandoned in Chiang Saen district cornfield. News source: MCOT
