ARRESTED at Phuket Airport yesterday (July 1) were two Uzbek men on charges of attempting to smuggle dried cannabis flowers and resin out of the country in their luggage, Amarin TV said this morning. The first suspect, Mr. Jalilboyevich Bunyodboy Juraboev, 26, was apprehended during baggage inspection at the Baggage Inspection Room on the
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13 foreign women deported for prostitution in Pattaya
THIRTEEN foreign women from Uzbekistan and Uganda were arrested on charges of blatant and aggressive prostitution in Pattaya with all of them blacklisted and deported, TV Channel 7 said today (May 9). Pol. Lt. Gen. Phanumas Boonnalak, head of the Immigration Bureau, and his team announced that these 13 women, seven from Uzbekistan and
Read moreThais stranded in Uzbekistan plea for help getting home
By Thai Newsroom Reporters ONE HUNDRED AND ONE Thai workers currently stranded in Uzbekistan have desperately urged Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to send a special flight from Bangkok to Tashkent to bring them back home sooner than scheduled. Saravut Seethong, a native of Udorn Thani, called his wife in the northeastern province, to help him
Read moreThai workers warned not to torch camp in Uzbekistan
THE Royal Thai Embassy in Moscow yesterday (July 27) sternly warned Thai workers in Uzbekistan not to set fire to their camp as a pressure tactic to be quickly flown home, Sanook.com reported this morning. In a note posted at its Facebook page the embassy said it was aware that some Thai people and workers
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