Young Thais join the Nation’s “Thailand Prays for South Korea” to express moral support for families and friends of students and passengers on board the Sewol ferry at Nation TV studio at Siam Discovery on Friday. The event starts at 5.30pm. Of the 475 people on board, 25 are known to have died and 179 […]
BANGKOK, 24 February 2014 (NNT) – The speculation over the transfer of US Ambassador to Thailand Kristie Kenney to South Korea has been disregarded as false by the US Embassy. In a phone interview, Spokesman for the US Embassy in Bangkok Walter Braunohler confirmed that Mrs Kenney would continue her duty as Ambassador to the […]
Two Thai women have been arrested for luring women into prostitution in South Korea and the United Kingdom. Suspects Thipphawan Tempao and Phingjai Kim had allegedly duped the former’s niece, who is a minor, the police Anti-Human Trafficking Division said at a press conference yesterday. Thipphawan is married to a Korean man. Read more: The […]
New questions have emerged about a Thai teenager’s claim that her aunt forced her into prostitution in South Korea. The aunt, Piangjai Kim, flew back to Thailand late on Thursday for police interrogation, in which she firmly denied the allegation. Her older brother, the girl’s father, also said that his daughter had concocted the story […]
The Anti-human trafficking division helped a 17 year-old Thai girl who had been tricked to prostitution in South Korea. She asked for help over facebook after being tricked to work as a prostitute in a massage parlor. It was reported that she had to work 20 hours a day and that her passport was taken […]
In recent days, North Korea has been issuing threats of war to neighbouring South Korea and the United States. There has been an increase in tensions as well as the decision to close off the Kaesong Industrial Park to South Korean workers. Wikinews interviewed Dr. Robert Kelly of Pusan National University (PNU) in South Korea, […]
North Korea’s ruling party yesterday unveiled a plan to sign its right to build a nuclear bomb into its constitution. South Korea’s President Park Geun-Hye responded by saying that provocations from North Korea would trigger decisive military action as the war-like rhetoric on the peninsula intensifies. North Korea’s declaration that it is pursuing to enshrine […]
Labour Minister Phadermchai Sasomsap yesterday instructed the Thai ambassador in Seoul to prepare a plan for the speedy evacuation of all Thais after North Korea on Saturday declared it was at a “state of war” with South Korea. Pyongyang’s announcement came as the communist country escalated its bellicose rhetoric against both South Korea and its […]
