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The Nation
April 28, 2018
TOURISM experts and online travel platforms are welcoming the collaboration between e-commerce giant Alibaba and Thai tourism authorities to ... Under a partnership deal on tourism, the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) will expand cooperation with Fliggy, Alibaba's online travel business and China'sÃâà...
BBC News
April 28, 2018
The 14-year conflict between Muslim insurgents and authorities in Thailand's three southernmost provinces has claimed more than 7,000 lives. But can music help bridge the sectarian divide? 32m ago. Share this with Facebook Ãâ÷ Share this with Twitter Ãâ÷ Share this with Messenger Ãâ÷ Share this withÃâà...
Thai PBS English News
April 28, 2018
The power to sign off a crime case file to be proceeded to the public prosecutors will in the future rest with the chief inquiry officer of each police station instead of the superintendent of the station as it has been the case for years. Mr Kamnoon Sidhisamarn, spokesman of the panel charged with scrutinizingÃâà...
Chiang Rai Times
April 27, 2018
He said they will now expand the scope of their investigation to determine whether an organised crime gang of Thais and foreigners is heavily involved in the sex trade in Thailand. Pol Maj Gen Kornchai Klaiklung, commander of the trafficking division, said all known sex trafficking gangs have already beenÃâà...
Cointelegraph
April 19, 2018
Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission (Thai SEC) and Thai Fintech Association. technology consultant Bhume Bhumiratana, along with members of the local crypto community, have urged financial authorities to reconsider the country's cryptocurrency tax framework, local news outlet BangkokÃâà...
Radio Free Asia
April 3, 2018
Thai authorities seized about $68.6 million (2.14 billion baht) worth of meth in the past week and arrested 11 suspects, officials said Tuesday, underscoring a U.N. report describing Thailand as a major transit point for drug trafficking in Southeast Asia. Police seized 788 kilograms (358 pounds) of crystalÃâà...
The Star Online
March 18, 2018
The arrest of Tan by a group of heavily armed police officers at the busy Hatyai Airport in April last year received wide media coverage in Thailand and Malaysia. Thai authorities suspected Tan, who resided in Hatyai and had a Thai wife, of being a senior member of an international drug syndicate whichÃâà...
Xinhua
March 18, 2018
AYUTTHAYA, Thailand, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Thailand's central Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province and the Tourism Authority of Thailand held the annual Wai Khru Muay Thai ceremony, during which 1,260 Thai boxing learners around the world came here to pay respect to Thai boxing masters. The 14thÃâà...
StepFeed
March 18, 2018
A police spokesperson has named Qatari national Mohammed Ibrahim al-Malki and Azizah Udomwattananon, a Thai woman, as the two main perpetrators. They were found hiding at a house in the Bang Lamung district of Thailand after authorities managed to track their vehicle all the way from the NongÃâà...
BuzzFeed News
March 16, 2018
11 attacks. Although the book does not name the "chief of base," ProPublica said in its story that three former government officials told Bonner that the person was Haspel. But the "chief of base" at the Thailand interrogation center was a man, not a woman, according to the book, which refers to the chief asÃâà...
Newsweek
March 15, 2018
Thai authorities plan to vaccinate more than 10 million dogs and cats within the next six months in reaction to a deadly rabies outbreak that has spread across the country. The country's Department of Livestock Development (DLD) sought to reassure the public at a press conference on Wednesday, sayingÃâà...
CNN
March 10, 2018
Lesley and Rybka travelled to Dubai from Thailand in an attempt to lie low. From there, they asked a Canadian member of their movement to reach out to US authorities for protection. The Canadian, a Russian-speaking immigrant from Israel named Eliot Cooper, told me on Thursday he tried to contact theÃâà...
Jersey Evening Post
March 9, 2018
She does not accept the official explanation by the Thai police that her son died after his motorbike crashed into an electricity pylon. More than 13,000 people signed the Change.org petition, which was given to the UK government last week. Mrs Harrington spent years trying to get information from the ThaiÃâà...
Bangkok Post
March 8, 2018
Thailand's formal commitment to women's rights began in 1985 when it became a party to the key UN treaty on the subject: the Convention on the ... Violence Act 2007 not only prohibits such violence but also imposes a duty on witnesses to report the situation to the authorities for follow-up action. Yet, it isÃâà...
The Phnom Penh Post
March 8, 2018
“In those 10 years, I've never seen any inspector visit us and check our working conditions, I only saw Thai authorities check whether we're documented while we work in Thailand,” he added. According to Sokchar, once the fishing boats returned, migrants were often arrested when police found they wereÃâà...
Nikkei Asian Review
March 8, 2018
A dozen books later, Siri is still solving murders, sassing officials, messing with the spirit world and slurping down noodles prepared by his second wife, ... "Christopher Moore [another popular Thai-based author] books also sell well, but almost anything set in Thailand will sell well either to local expats orÃâà...
Above the Law
March 8, 2018
When his situation came to light, the outrage was intense. His case, along with the Baby Gammy Case, resulted in Thailand completely banning all surrogacy arrangements with non-Thai citizens in 2015. Nice work, dude. Way to ruin it for everyone. The facts start in 2014, when Thai authorities becameÃâà...
Eurasia Review
March 8, 2018
A self-styled Belarusian sex coach who alleged she could provide damning evidence to support claims of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election in exchange for political asylum will remain under detention in Thailand as authorities compile evidence against her, immigration officials said Wednesday.
benarnews
March 8, 2018
A Thai police officer escorts Anastasia Vashukevich from a detention center in Pattaya, south of Bangkok, Feb. ... meddling in the 2016 U.S. election in exchange for political asylum will remain under detention in Thailand as authorities compile evidence against her, immigration officials said Wednesday.
Newsweek
March 7, 2018
Rybka—whose real name is Anastasia Vashukevich—was arrested in Pattaya, Thailand, during one of her “sex training” seminars. Thai officials said the women running the workshop didn't have valid work permits. She is now asking the U.S. government to extradite her so she can provide special counselÃâà...
africanews
March 7, 2018
The Gambian government has officially apologized to the Thai government over sex tourism comments made by its its Tourism and Culture Minister, Hamat ... Though the comments were made two months ago, it resurfaced after an online new agency republished it attracting the attention of Thai authoritiesÃâà...
International Middle East Media Center
March 5, 2018
With the support of the academics and the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), BDS Campaign Thailand and PSC Thailand contacted the Kasetsart University authorities and the International Center for Research and Development (ICRD) to ask them to withdrawÃâà...
NextShark
March 5, 2018
An elderly Swiss man was recently sentenced to merely 16 years in prison for sexually abusing 80 children in Thailand in the span of over a decade. On Thursday, the ... When Thai authorities began investigating him for charges related to pedophilia, he returned to Switzerland in 2014, the Local reports.
AEC News Today
March 5, 2018
A team of EU officials is scheduled to visit Thailand next month to inspect the country's efforts to reign in its seafood and fishing industries to conform with EU fishing regulations. To say that Thai officials are more than a little confident that it will be the last such visit under threat of penalty is somewhat of anÃâà...
The Phnom Penh Post
March 5, 2018
Dr Keo Sopheaktra, director of the Banteay Meanchey Provincial Health Department, said patients currently are transferred into another ambulance at the border. While Cambodian officials have asked Thailand to allow Cambodian ambulances to go directly to hospitals on the Thai side, those requests hadÃâà...
New York Times
March 5, 2018
She faces criminal charges and deportation to Belarus after coming under suspicion of working in Thailand without a visa at a sex-training seminar in the city of Pattaya. .... She said a Thai official had asked her to sign a paper saying that she believed she would be safe in Russia, but that she had refused.
Channel NewsAsia
March 5, 2018
BANGKOK: A Thai court has sentenced five Cambodian fishermen to 50 years each for a violent 2016 attack on French tourists in which two women were raped, an official said on Monday (Mar 5). The men were given the maximum allowable sentence on a raft of charges, including rape, following theirÃâà...
BBC News
March 4, 2018
He told BBC Radio Wales' Sunday Supplement programme: "Kirsty's belongings are still in Thailand. ... Dyfed-Powys Police has continued to liaise with Thai authorities in a bid to catch the killers and have analysed DNA samples connected to the case, believed to match someone of south-east Asian origin.
BBC News
February 25, 2018
At the time the authorities were investigating fertility clinics in Bangkok believed to be offering commercial surrogacy services - paying Thai women to give ... Mr Shigeta has not come back to Thailand to visit them, perhaps fearing either the publicity or possible prosecution, but Thai officials say his motherÃâà...
ETHNews
February 21, 2018
The tech startup Omise, parent company of the Ethereum-based blockchain firm OmiseGo, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Electronic Transactions Development Agency (ETDA), a branch of Thailand's Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, to lend support to a forthcomingÃâà...
Phys.Org
February 18, 2018
They were arrested earlier this month in the sanctuary in western Thailand where rangers stumbled on their camp and found guns and animal carcasses. Rich and influential Thais have a habit of avoiding justice. The junta which seized power in 2014 is on the back foot over a luxury watch scandal that hasÃâà...
The Star Online
February 18, 2018
BANGKOK: Thai officials will test human faeces found at a campsite in a wildlife sanctuary to try to prove their case against a tycoon accused of ... They were arrested earlier this month in the sanctuary in western Thailand where rangers stumbled on their camp and found guns and animal carcasses.
CNN
December 31, 1999
The FBI agents contacted Thailand's Immigration bureau last week to try to organize the meeting, the highly placed source in the department said. The request was refused by Thai officials because only legal representatives and family members of the detainees are permitted access to the detainees, addedÃâà...