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Tough enforcement by the Thai authorities, including the arrests of dozens of officials complicit in human trafficking and labor abuse, is producing positive results in the government’s campaign to clean Continue Reading

To the Editor: Re “Slave Labor on the High Seas” (editorial, Feb. 20), I wish to emphasize two points. First, compared with this time last year, Thailand has made significant Continue Reading

The Bangkok Post on 19 February 2016 by Patsara Jikkham, The government has launched a fresh campaign against human trafficking, offering incentives to those who provide useful information leading to the Continue Reading

On February 9, 2016, Ambassador Pisan Manawapat accompanied Pol. Maj. Gen. Jaruvat Vaisaya, Deputy Commissioner of the Thai Metropolitan Police Bureau, to meet with Congressman Chris Smith, author of the Continue Reading

                 The Minister of Labour consulted with working committees from 7 agencies to develop and monitor action plans to combat human trafficking in the fishing industry within 22 coastal provinces, inspecting Continue Reading

Recent legislation signed by United States President Barack Obama barring the import of products made by forced labor or human trafficking victims is good for Thailand as most Thai companies Continue Reading

These words filled the Associated Press article “U.S. companies buying shrimp peeled by slaves” in Tuesday’s Dispatch about a greedy employer who horrendously abused workers in his Gig factory in Continue Reading

On 14 December 2015, Ambassador Pisan Manawapat, along with Captain Suvin Jangyodsuk, RTN, Naval Attaché, Dr. Adisorn Promthep, Minister (Agriculture), and embassy staff, met with SkyTruth and Oceana to discuss Continue Reading

The Thai government, responding to concerns over illegal fishing and human trafficking, has begun setting up a system to trace the catches of Thai and foreign fishing vessels that use Continue Reading

Thailand’s leading English-language daily newspaper published an editorial last week insisting that the government “has made real achievements against the slave trade” and that the “difference in a year [has Continue Reading