German authorities have seized a Boeing 737 aeroplane controlled by Thailand’s crown prince at Munich airport, saying the Thai government owes money to a now insolvent German construction company. The plane was seized Tuesday as part of a long-running dispute in which Werner Schneider, the insolvency administrator for the Walter Bau construction group, is demanding […]
Chon Buri – When a protest by Cambodian workers at a chicken slaughter factory in Chon Buri’s Nong Yai district on Sunday got out of control, police reinforcements were brought in and four of their cars were damaged. The Cambodians were angry that Thai workers who injured a number of Cambodians in an earlier fistfight […]
Kuala Lumpur – A Malaysian court has sentenced two Thai nationals to death by hanging for smuggling more than 20 kilograms of cannabis into the country, a news report said Friday. Iproheng Yeetuwa, 37 and Mueseh Mahsae, 44, were caught in the northern Kedah state in 2009 with 21.6 kilogrammes of cannabis. Read more: The […]
About 4.3 million Thais are alcoholics, according to a survey conducted from 2008 to this year. Of them, more than one million are between 15 and 25 years old. Moreover, up to 7.1 per cent of alcoholics have mental disorders. Read more: The Nation By The Nation
Three US men have pleaded guilty to human trafficking charges related to a company that recruited farm workers from Thailand. The U.S. Justice Department says between 2001 and 2007 the defendants brought some 600 Thai nationals to the United States under the federal agricultural guest worker program.
BANGKOK, June 10 – Three men — a Thai, a Vietnamese and a Cambodian — were arrested by the Thai military for spying on this country’s military bases and bunkers for the local population in the border province of Si Sa Ket. Police in Si Sa Ket’s Kantharalak district and a unit of Special Forces […]
A 3 year old Thai-American Girl was burnt to death in a raging fire at a music studio in South Pattaya on Saturday Morning. Fire Rescue Units, medical personnel and Police were called to the Pattaya Music Studio, located at Duck Square, close to Big C in South Pattaya. There were frantic scenes as witnesses, […]
A federal agency that enforces equal employment laws has sued six Hawaii farms and a California-based labor contracting company, alleging they discriminated against Thai farm workers and forced them to endure more deplorable working conditions than other non-Thai workers. Hawaii farms named in the civil lawsuit, filed Wednesday by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission […]
