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 […]
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT, 10 July 2010 (NNT) – Police in the southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat have arrested a drug dealer and seized 4,500 tablets of amphetamine and a number of other illegal items. Mr Manit Kit-ngarm, 33, a local drug dealer, was nabbed by the police on Friday after he was suspected of […]
Thai police say internationally acclaimed Russian pianist and conductor Mikhail Pletnev has left Thailand, days after he was arrested and charged with raping a teenage boy while in the country. Pletnev denies the charges. He would face up to 20 years in prison if found guilty. Police Lieutenant Colonel Omsin Sukkanka said authorities released him […]
Thai authorities have arrested renowned Russian pianist Mikhail Vasilievich Pletnev for raping a 14-year-old boy, among other charges. Police said Pletnev was nabbed on Monday after authorities received a tip from a Thai national. Authorities also found photographs where Pletnev is seen with other boys in compromising positions. Pletnev, founder of the Russian National Orchestra, […]
An Iranian man was caught Wednesday at Suvarnabhumi Airport trying to smuggle 1.75 kilograms of ice worth Bt6.1 million into the country. Araj Kharimi Panabandani, 24, who arrived at 8am from Iran’s Tehran, reportedly confessed – after the Customs Department found the crystallised methamphetamine hydrochloride tied around his waist – that he was unemployed and […]
Bangkok – Thai police on Thursday arrested a former Belgian policeman who had allegedly been running an extortion racket in the beach resort town of Pattaya. M. J., 50, was arrested at his rented apartment in Pattaya, 90 kilometres south-east of Bangkok, and charged with overstaying his tourist visa by two months, Pattaya Immigration Police […]
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 […]
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 […]
