A Laos national was allegedly scammed out of 21 Million Baht by a group of three foreign nationals who used a popular email scam technique to persuade the victim to send the money which would be used to obtain paperwork which would unlock funds totaling 2 Million US Dollars held in a United Nations account. […]
BANGKOK, Jan 31 – A human trafficking agent was arrested in the central province of Saraburi for smuggling foreign labourers from the Lao PDR to Thailand. The suspect was identified as Vitoon Tongsin. He was apprehended with 20 male and female Lao. Read more: MCOT
BANGKOK, 15 January 2012 (NNT) – The Tourism and Sports Ministry revealed that Thai tourism in 2011 hit a new high with roughly 730 million baht revenue despite the flood crisis. Director General of the Tourism Department at the Tourism and Sports Ministry Supol Sriphan announced that a total of 19,098,323 tourists visited Thailand in […]
Nong Khai – A Laotian woman has been arrested for the alleged possession of crystal methamphetamine worth Bt3 million, Customs Department officials said Tuesday. The arrest of Vientiane resident Ponchan Bandawong, 29, was made at 6.30 am at the Thai-Laotian Friendship Bridge checkpoint in Nong Khai’s Muang district after customs officials allegedly found 1 kilogram […]
CHIANG RAI: Three Burmese soldiers were killed during a clash with an armed group of criminals on the Mekong River during an international joint river patrol, according to security sources. The sources said a joint patrol force of Burmese and Lao soldiers clashed with a group of criminals believed to be led by Nor Kham, […]
Thailand – A Nong Khai procurer convicted of trafficking Laotian women and girls into prostitution was Thursday sentenced to 21 years in prison, while another from Udon Thani was sentenced to nine years. Sentencing Nang Chomphuwong, 57, to 21 years and Therdsak Tubla, 42, to nine years’ imprisonment, the Criminal Court said the pair trafficked […]
Seventeen Laotian women were held hostage in a karaoke cum brothel in Plutaluang, Sattahip. The women were forced to work as prostitutes 12 hours per day. The Lao Embassy in Bangkok was alerted. The women have been detained. One escaped. Sattahip, September 17, 2011[PDN]; Pol.Col. Choosak Panusumporn, Superintendent, Immigration Police, Chonburi province was notified to […]
Thai authorities freed 71 women and girls who had been lured into selling sex in massage parlors and karaoke bars, police said, after a crackdown on human trafficking on the Malaysian border Thirteen of those discovered were girls under the age of 18, said Lieutenant Colonel Noppadon Petsut, deputy commander of police in Sadao district […]
