South Thailand: Death To Infidels

September 21, 2010: In response to a recent surge of attacks against teachers in the Moslem south, the government has raised the pay of teachers down there and improved security as well. In the last six years, 137 school personnel, mostly teachers, have been killed down there, and several hundred injured. The Islamic radicals oppose […]

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Teaching is a deadly job in Thailand

Bangkok, Sep 21 (DPA) Separatists have killed 135 teachers in southern Thailand over the past eight years in their efforts to rid the region of ‘Siamese infidels’, a human rights group said Tuesday. Since January 2004, insurgents in Thailand’s southernmost provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala have deliberately targeted school teachers in their fight against […]

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Thai PM: Education Ministry to solve gangster student issue

BANGKOK, 5 September 2010 (NNT) – Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has tasked the Ministry of Education with presenting proactive plans to tackle gangster students and their street brawls after a nine-year-old boy was shot dead during a fight last week. Speaking in his weekly television program “Confidence in Thailand with Prime Minister Abhisit” airing from […]

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Thailand: Teachers in 2 Provinces Charged with Sexual Abuse

Police are pressing child molestation charges against two teachers in Surat Thani province, while another two teachers in Nakhon Si Thammarat are being investigated for allegedly sexually abusing 21 female students. Police have charged the deputy director of Surat Thani’s Kanjanadit Wittayakom School with child sexual abuse after being alleged of luring a Grade 11 […]

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Bangkok: Schoolboy killed in bus shooting

An eight-year-old schoolboy was killed in a shooting at a bus by a number of technical school students on Ramkhamhaeng road on Wednesday morning, police reported. Police said the shooting took place about 7am. A group of youths dressed in technical school uniforms followed bus No 113 (Min Buri-Hua Lamphong) on motorcycles along Ramkhamhaeng road. […]

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Thai teacher caught caning students (Video)

Secretly recorded mobile phone footage has exposed a teacher at a Catholic boarding school in north-eastern Thailand who whacked dozens of students on the buttocks with a cane wrapped with electrical wire. Art teacher Somchai Limthanmaporn was fired after he was exposed hitting at least 40 students, according to Nongkran Prathumtri, an administrator at St […]

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Miss Universe 2010 Pageant – Miss Thailand Universe 2010 Fonthip Watcharatrakul Aims For The Crown

UK Today News: Miss Universe 2010 Pageant – Miss Thailand Universe 2010 Fonthip Watcharatrakul Aims For The Crown Miss Thailand Universe 2010 Fonthip Watcharatrakul will represent her country at the 2010 Miss Universe pageant on the 23rd of August in Las Vegas, USA. The event will be hosted by Bret Michaels and Natalie Morales. The […]

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