PHNOM PENH, Cambodia and Thailand signed an agreement on the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) on law enforcement cooperation, against human trafficking, according to a statement from Cambodia’s National Committee for Counter Trafficking (NCCT), yes…
Read MoreThe draft Prevention and Suppression of Torture and Enforced Disappearance Act, with its 34 sections, was finally passed on Wednesday (August 24) and will become effective in 4 months, following several years of delay.Originally rejected by the post-co…
Read MoreIn August 2017, more than 730,000 Rohingya were forced to flee the Myanmar military’s so-called ‘clearance operations’ from Rakhine State to Bangladesh. Five years later, there has been little progress in furthering their cause for justice and accounta…
Read MoreIn the South East, the total number of IDP increased from to 279,500 last week to 281,700 this week. Some 1,157 people from Kyaukkyi Township in Bago (East) sought safety following a deterioration in the security situation.In Kayin State, more than 700…
Read MoreSouth Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported yesterday (Tuesday) that a Thai male, who had worked in South Korea for 8 years without a work permit, died of unknown causes last week after being detained at a centre in the south-eastern city of Busan.Accord…
Read MoreA Lao government initiative to register workers in a Chinese-run special economic zone in the northern part of the country to protect them from human trafficking and other abuses has had limited success, as workers balk at paying the fees and fear that…
Read MoreThe government of Taiwan is scrambling to assist hundreds of its nationals lured into human trafficking and abusive jobs scams in Cambodia, with many victims saying they were taken to work in Chinese-owned casinos in Sihanoukville, a former playground …
Read MoreSince mid-August, heavy to very heavy rainfall has been affecting 19 provinces of Thailand, affecting more than 63,100 people, as reported by the ASEAN Disaster Information Network (ADINet).Authorities started operations for water releases from the Cha…
Read MoreThailand’s Central Criminal Court for Corruption and Misconduct Cases sentenced former top executive of the Krisda Mahanakorn real estate company, Wichai Krisdathanon, his son Ratchada and four other people to 20 years in prison today (Friday), after f…
Read MoreThailand’s opposition parties submitted a petition, through House Speaker Chuan Leekpai today (Wednesday), to seek the Constitutional Court’s ruling on Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s 8-year term in office.Signed by 171 opposition MPs, the petition …
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