Month: November 2015

The CEO of Thai Union Group, the country’s largest seafood company, insisted last week that the government has made substantial progress against illegal fishing and human trafficking in the fishing Continue Reading

Police have obtained warrants for the arrest of 11 more suspects in the trafficking of 98 Rohingya migrants intercepted in southern Nakhorn Sri Thammarat province in January, in a case Continue Reading

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha stood his ground and officially revoked the licenses of 8,024 fishing trawlers last week, showing no leniency in the government’s campaign to end illegal, unregulated and Continue Reading

  Fact Sheets on Thailand’s Latest Efforts to Combat Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing:     Highlights of Thailand’s New Fisheries Legislation Highlights of Thailand’s Marine Fisheries Management Plan, Continue Reading

Eleven more warrants will be issued next week for the arrest of human trafficking suspects, Nakhon Si Thammarat police revealed. Pol Lt-General Thesa Siriwatho, chief of Provincial Police Region 8, Continue Reading

The Criminal Court began proceedings last week in the trial of 88 people charged with human trafficking of Rohingya and other migrants in the largest and most extensive human trafficking Continue Reading

Anti-trafficking police in the northern city of Chiang Mai rescued three underage girls last week who had been trafficked into a brothel, and issued arrest warrants for 25 people including Continue Reading

The cabinet of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha approved a raft of laws and measures last week to combat illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing, and create a fishing and seafood Continue Reading

By Methee Muangkaew, Acahdtaya Chuenniran and Wassana Nanuam for the Bangkok Post on 7 November 2015, The chairman of the Trang Fishing Association and seven others were arrested on human trafficking Continue Reading