Vox Pop: What is your reaction to the death of Thailand’s king?
DVB speaks to several Burmese residents of Thailand about what the passing of King Bhumibol Adulyadej means to them.
DVB speaks to several Burmese residents of Thailand about what the passing of King Bhumibol Adulyadej means to them.
Human Trafficking Lead Story Migrants Issues News
The girl, who was smuggled into Thailand at the age of 11 and forced to work at various jobs without pay, was rescued last week after five years as a captive of a fellow Burmese national.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News
The Burmese embassy in Bangkok has acknowledged that cards it had issued to two Burmese migrants rights groups working in Thailand had been “confiscated”, but denied that the move would[…]
Two Burmese labour rights groups said Burma’s authorities had blocked them from operating in Thailand because they had criticised recruitment practices as “legal human trafficking”.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News
“The attachés yelled at us, shouted rude things, and threatened to get us arrested for disturbing their work.”
Human Trafficking Lead Story News
Nineteen Burmese workers rescued from human traffickers on Sunday now face months in detention as the case against their accused abusers proceeds.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News
MAT said the three men had been hiding in a forest near the port of Chonburi for two days after escaping from their fishing boat.
The three men were rescued from a Chonburi dock after their boat returned to shore.
Human Rights Human Trafficking Lead Story News
A notorious human trafficking ring was busted in Thailand following reports of murder, rape and extortion of vulnerable Burmese migrant workers.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News
Truck crashed while carrying 21 Burmese migrant workers in Samut Sakhon Province. The driver, also a Burmese national, was arrested for negligent driving.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News
Two Burmese migrants – a father and son – were sold by human traffickers a total of three times from one owner to another in southern Thailand’s Nakhon Si Thammarat Province.
Crime Lead Story Migrants Issues News
Trio of Burmese workers, including a 13 year old boy, shot dead in Suratthani.
Crime Lead Story Migrants Issues News
Lawyer Aung Myo Thant tells DVB that the request was made to Thailand’s Ministry of Legal Affairs on the basis that confessions by Burmese suspects Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Tun were made under duress of torture.
Crime Lead Story Migrants Issues News
Burmese migrants Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun tell embassy delegates on Friday that local Thai police had directed them what to say and do during a re-enactment of the crime on 3 October.
Law Lead Story Migrants Issues News
Hundreds of Burmese migrant workers marched in the streets of Bangkok demanding legal action against a company that allegedly cheated them.
Lawyer: “He [Muang Maung] said he did not know what happened afterwards, and that when he returned to the room there was nothing to suggest that Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun had committed murder.”
Crime Lead Story Migrants Issues News
A lawyer contracted by the Burmese embassy to defend Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun, who are accused of murdering two British tourists, said the men confessed to the crimes but told the legal team they had been tortured.
Lead Story Migrants Issues News
Three young Burmese migrants were rescued on 19 February from a Bangkok restaurant where they had been kept as slaves.
A Burmese human rights organisation has filed what is claimed to be the first ever formal complaint against Thai police for their alleged role in extorting Burmese migrant workers in Thailand.
Thai authorities in the last week have rounded up three leading members of a Burmese human trafficking gang responsible for selling hundreds of their fellow countrymen into slavery and murdering dozens of people
Burmese migrants, who have arrived ‘legally’ in Thailand under a bilateral agreement between the two countries, continue to be systematically exploited and abused by their Thai employers, activists have warned