This is the third in a series of stories by Coconuts Bangkok about modern day slavery flourishing across borders in Southeast Asia. Read the first and second. When Dew arrived for a Tuesday morning hearing to the Criminal Court an hour before it opened, it was already packed with other…
This is the second in a series of stories by Coconuts Bangkok about modern day slavery flourishing across borders in Southeast Asia. The 40-year-old man calmly sipped iced coffee inside a Bangkok chain cafe in a plain white T-shirt. To anyone else, he would appear just another cafe customer taking…
When Nop tried to get help from the authorities, the Chinese captors he had been sold to locked him in a dark room, beat him, and shocked him with a baton. He had been lured to Cambodia by a promising job only to be forced into scamming Thais back home…
BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): The CNN crew whose crime-scene report of Thursday’s (Oct 6) Nong Bua Lamphu massacre angered many have not been barred from entering Thailand in the future.