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Thailand’s sea slaves: Shackled, whipped and beheaded
- Books
- October 19, 2019, 06:00
While forced labour exists throughout the world, nowhere is the problem more rampant than in the South China Sea, and especially in the Thai fishing f(...)

Whale dies from eating more than 80 pieces of plastic rubbish
- World
- June 3, 2018, 10:35
Some 80 pieces of plastic rubbish weighing 8kgs were found in the stomach of a whale that died in Thailand after a five-day effort to save it, marine (...)

Southern Thailand’s separatist violence shows no signs of ending
- Asia-Pacific
- January 27, 2017, 01:00
Outside the Grand Mosque in Pattani, the largest in Thailand, white-veiled adolescents congregate, waiting for one of the motorised trishaws that ferr(...)

Thailand’s foreign minister admits to ‘crush’ on Chinese counterpart
- Asia-Pacific
- August 7, 2015, 01:01
The foreign minister for the Thai junta, Gen Tanasak Patimapragorn, professed to having a crush on his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi while sharing a po(...)

Malaysian police have begun the grisly process of exhuming the bodies of migrant workers held in jungle camps by human traffickers, while many more mi(...)

Malaysia has uncovered 139 graves thought to contain the remains of migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh scattered around more than two dozen suspect(...)

Mass graves of suspected migrants found in Malaysia
- Asia-Pacific
- May 24, 2015, 11:30
Mass graves and suspected human trafficking detention camps have been discovered by Malaysian police in towns and villages bordering Thailand, the cou(...)

Insiders pessimistic on talks bringing resolution to Thailand insurgency
- Asia-Pacific
- July 20, 2013, 01:00
The banner at the junction in the village of Tak Bai is scripted in both Thai and Arabic. Above a gaggle of smiling schoolchildren, some clutching Tha(...)