BANGKOK, June 13 – The Singaporean government on Friday returned passports to some 40 Thai students who were cheated by manpower firms in that country, said Pravit Khiengpol, director-general of the Thai Labour Ministry’s Employment Department. The return of confiscated passports came after nearly 30 Thai students lodged a complaint with the Crime Suppression Division […]
Following hours of digging, seven more bodies were recovered from a collapsed cold storage facility at Karachi’s Jinnah International, 32 hours after militants launched their six-hour siege at Pakistan’s busiest airport, bringing the death toll from the brazen attack to 35. A few hours after the Pakistan military had cleared the airport of militants, Pakistani […]
The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan have claimed responsibility for the brazen attack on Pakistan’s busiest airport Jinnah International. The 6-hour siege left 24 people dead, 10 of whom were militants. Just before 5 am, Pakistan time, the military reported that the last of the attackers had been killed. The militants reportedly entered the airport with fake Airport […]
Bangladesh’s controversial, elite anti-crime and anti-terrorism force, the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB),have been accused of extortion, extra-judicial killings and even assassination against payment. Are the country’s ‘men in black’ essentially an effective, super group of law enforcers or have they metamorphosed into an elite force of mercenaries? Drawing personnel from the police and the military, […]
A 13-year-old tribal girl from India conquered Mount Everest and became the youngest female to reach the top of the world on May 25. Belonging to India’s lowest Dalit caste, Malavath Poorna wanted to bring recognition to her community and inspire other poor children. Read more: thaipbs.or.th Thai PBS
Police in China announced yesterday the arrests of six people who reportedly pled guilty to murdering a woman by bludgeoning her to death at a McDonald’s restaurant in the city of Zhaoyuan, Shandong province. Police said they believed the suspects, who included a man, his reportedly twelve-year-old son, and two daughters, along with two other […]
KUALA LUMPUR, 2 June 2014 (NNT) – An oil tanker that went missing on Saturday has already been recovered with all of its crew members safe. A Thai diesel oil tanker, MT Orapin 4, with 14 crew members en route from Singapore to Indonesia was hijacked by a group of pirates on May 31st. However, […]
Thai oil tanker with crew of 14 lost contact while heading to Indonesia, suspected seized by pirates. News source: MCOT
