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Lao man caught returning illegally from Malaysia 3 published : 10 Feb 2021 at 10:42 3 Lao national Ae Thongboonniang, centre, was detained by soldiers after he illegally slipped across the border from Malaysia into a village in Sadao district, Songkhla. A fisherman, he was returning to his family in Pattani after being laid off in Malaysia. (Photo: Assawin Pakkawan) SONGKHLA: A Lao man was arrested after illegally returning to Thailand through a natural border crossing in Sadao district late on Tuesday night. A border patrol from the 5th I...

Southern border becomes key in Covid fight 4 More patrols, electric fences in crackdown published : 23 Jan 2021 at 07:00 4 Back to backs: A customer returns for a massage at Baiyoke Sky Hotel in Bangkok on the first day City Hall lifted Covid-19 curbs on 13 types of establishments including Thai traditional massage parlours. The business operators must socially distance customers and clean their premises frequently as part of disease control measures. (Photo by Chanat Katanyu) The southern region was being widely used to smuggle migrant la...

CCSA frets about Malaysia virus spill 11 published : 18 Jan 2021 at 16:44 11 Police show eight Myanmar nationals arrested in a rubber plantation in Sa Dao district of Songkhla on Sunday. Fleeing Covid-19 in Malaysia, they illegally crossed the border, with the help of traffickers, on their way back to Myanmar. (Photo: Assawin Pakkawan) Still struggling to control illegal migration through the northern border, authorities have a new worry in the South, where a spike in Covid-19 cases in Malaysia threatens to spill over into Thailand. The ...

Fortify Rights, a human rights organization that has been documenting the persecution of Myanmar’s ethnic Rohingya said in a media statement released on Wednesday 13 May that, “Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia should immediately coordinate search and rescue operations for Rohingya asylum seekers and possible survivors of trafficking from Myanmar and Bangladesh who are stranded at sea.” Fortify Rights urged the three governments to “open their borders to asylum seekers and provide survivors with access to asylum procedures, protection from detention and forced returns, and freedom of...