A politician in India’s central state of Chhattisgarh says at least seven Congress Party workers were killed when Maoist rebels attacked his convoy. Chhattisgarh Congress Party leader Nand Kumar Patel told reporters Wednesday that his convoy of some 20 vehicles was attacked in a roadside explosion that missed his vehicle but destroyed those behind him. […]
TAK, 15 July 2011 (NNT) – A number of Myanmar citizens have been arrested in Tak province after entering Thailand with the intention to find jobs and take advantage of the new government’s wage hike policy to 300 THB a day. On the occasion of Buddhist Lent this year, tens of thousands of people from […]
Pattani – Two Buddhist brothers were killed in a drive-by shooting in this southern border province Wednesday morning. Police said the two brothers were construction workers and were riding their motorcycle to work in Pattani downtown when two muslim insurgents on a motorcycle caught up and opened fire at them. Read more: The Nation
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 […]
The Cambodian government has approved a plan to send 8,000 Cambodians to work in Thailand under a bilateral agreement. The first batch of 113 Cambodian workers entered Thailand yesterday in the hope of getting paid a minimum wage of Bt300 per day as promised by the Pheu Thai-led government. At the checkpoint in front of […]
BANGKOK, July 6 – Thailand’s election-winning Pheu Thai Party announced Wednesday that it expects to raise the daily minimum wage for workers nationwide to Bt300 (US$10) as early as January next year, as promised in its election campaign. Pheu Thai Party Secretary-General Jarupong Ruangsuwan made the announcement amid growing public attention to the implementation of […]
NARATHIWAT, July 3 – Two election officials were wounded Sunday, ambushed as they were transporting ballot boxes by car in insurgency-impacted Narathiwat’s Si Sakhon district, while a bombing occurred in Ruso district in the afternoon. Two election workers, one identified as Boonting Wanthongsang and the other unidentified, were shot by gunmen hiding along the road […]
The authorities must do more to stop human trafficking and the mistreatment of labourers in fishing and other low-paid industries Thailand is the regional hub for human trafficking. It is a source and transit venue because of its central location in continental Southeast Asia and because it is surrounded by neighbouring countries with a lower […]
