Thirteen illegal Lao labour immigrants who were rescued from an alleged “slavery farm” in Nakhon Pathom are being treated as witnesses in a suspected human trafficking case. The immigrants, some as young as 15 years old, will not be charged with illegal entry into Thailand because they are considered to be victims of human trafficking. […]
NONG KHAI — Authorities in northeastern Thailand raided two brothels near the Thai-Laotian border where several Laotian teenagers said they were forced to work as sex workers. The two brothels are located in Tha Bo and Sri Chiang Mai districts, officials said. Six Laotian women were found at the first venue, and three at the […]
SA KAEO — Six passengers from Vietnam and Laos were severely injured in a van crash near the Thai-Cambodian border this morning after their Thai driver dozed off behind wheel, according to police. The van reportedly slammed into the back of an 18-wheeler truck at around 5am on Route 359 in Sa Kaeo province. Read […]
A 35-year-old Lao woman has been arrested for bringing US$400,000 (13.3 million baht) into the country without declaring it, officials said on Friday. A team of navy officers and local officials, headed by Jaturong Khachornfung, chief of the Chiang Khong branch of the Marine Office, spotted the woman at the Buk pier in Chiang Khong […]
Seven Lao sex workers were arrested during a raid by anti-human trafficking police on a karaoke bar near a police station and a district office in Udon Thani in the early hours of Thursday. The owner and a caretaker at the karaoke bar were arrested as a result of the raid in Wang Sam Mo […]
Authorities rescued 72 Lao teens were from prostitutions in four karaoke dens in Suphanburi’s Song Phi Nong district early Thursday. Police and Ministry of Social Development and Human Security officials raided the clubs shortly after the midnight after a tip from a Lao 15-year-old teen who had called the Paveena Foundation’s 1134 hotline on Dec […]
Pattaya police have arrested suspicious looking Thai-Laotian lady boys that might part of a pickpocket gang that target tourists on Pattaya beach road. PATTAYA – October 24, 2014 [Pattaya Daily News]; at 4.00 a.m., a specific team of special suppression police of Pattaya city police station, Chonburi province, leaded by Pol.Capt. Netithorn Rattanasuchanan (Deputy Inspector) […]
MUKDAHAN, Aug 8 – Thai officials early Friday arrested a Lao woman and charged her with smuggling Thai currency amounting to Bt30 million out of the country, customs officials said. A combined unit of customs, police and soldiers apprehended a 42-year-old woman identified only as Matapon after stopping her pickup truck at the Thai-Lao Friendship […]
