By Thai Newsroom Reporters EIGHTEEN CAMBODIAN prisoners of war who recently surrendered to the Thai army in northeastern Thailand are being returned to their home country via a border pass tomorrow (Aug.1), according to an army source. The 18 Cambodian army troops for whom food and lodging have been provided on humanitarian basis during
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‘Escaping hell’: Myanmar scam centre workers plead to go home
By AFP and published by CNA Myawaddy – Hundreds of exhausted young men lie in an open-sided detention centre in a seedy Myanmar border town, sweating through thick tropical heat by day and prey to clouds of mosquitoes by night. They are among some 7,000 people from more than two dozen countries released from
Read moreMinistry rushing to help almost 300 Thais in Myanmar as fighting escalates
THE FOREIGN Ministry is working hard on the repatriation of almost 300 Thais from Laukkai city in Myanmar’s Shan state, just across the border from China, after fighting escalated with a bomb going off near their residence yesterday (Nov. 10), Naewna newspaper said this evening. Currently there are 293 Thais in this city on
Read moreAnother 130 Thais return from Israel; 32 more flights likely
PRIME MINISTER Srettha Thavisin said he was happy another group of 130 Thais returned home on an air force Airbus A340-500 flight that landed at Don Mueang Airport at 6.50 a.m. this morning (Oct. 16) and that there will be at least another 32 repatriation flights from Israel, Thai Rath, Naewna newspapers and Amarin
Read moreTwo parties slam repatriation of 3 PDF soldiers, believed killed
MOVE FORWARD and Commoners parties strongly criticised the repatriation of three People’s Defence Force soldiers who had crossed over from Myanmar to Mae Sot to seek medical treatment with all three believed to have been killed, Thai Rath newspaper said today (Apr. 11). However Myanmar junta’s Border Guard Forces (BGF) only confirmed that one
Read moreMore repatriation flights in June for Thai nationals in India
THE Thai embassy in New Delhi has announced that two more repatriation flights are planned in June, for Thai nationals still in India during the Covid-19 crisis. One flight is scheduled to leave from New Delhi and the other from Chennai, NNT said today (May 22). According to the embassy, on the first flight, which
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