Thai authorities Thursday inspected Wat Talom in Bangkok’s Phasi Charoen district following complaints that 400 foreign Buddhist monks there took alms in the afternoon and selling offerings. Immigration Bureau officials, police and Office of National Buddhism found that many foreign monks – from other countries such as Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Laos – […]
MADRID—Spanish police arrested seven men in Barcelona, suspected of stealing passports for radical Islamic cells in Thailand and Pakistan, and collaborating with the group that carried out the 2008 attacks in Mumbai, the country’s Interior ministry said Wednesday. The suspects, six Pakistanis and one Nigerian, are believed to be part of a European network that […]
BANGKOK, 11 October 2010 (NNT) – The Immigration Bureau has joined forces with the commando unit of the Crime Suppression Division arresting Sri Lankan illegal immigrants. Intelligence information indicated that a number of Elam rebel group members were among the Sri Lankan illegal immigrants living in Thailand. Upon a tip-off, the commando units and the […]
A Thai cargo ship carrying more than 200 illegal Sri Lankan migrants may be headed for Canada, the National Post is reporting. Canadian authorities are monitoring the vessel which is believed to be British Columbia-bound. Sri Lanka’s Sunday Observer reported over the weekend that the MV Sun Sea was headed for the Canadian coast, not […]
