PATTAYA, Thailand – Twelve people, including tourists and the boat’s captain and crew, were rescued Friday after their ...
The Thai Tuna Industry Association (TTIA) is calling on officials from Thailand and the E.U. to accelerate talks and secure a ...
BANGKOK – Police in Thailand have arrested two men they say are key figures in a human trafficking ring that lures people to work on fishing boats in Indonesia and sells them to boat owners. Officials ...
SAMUT SAKHON, Thailand and PREY VENG, Cambodia — To hear Jord tell it, a deep-sea boatman's life is one long knife fight. His nastiest scar starts above his eyes. It runs straight to his crown in a ...
The situation regarding human trafficking and slave labor in Thailand’s fishing industry “is now severe” and the country is taking action to tackle it, Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has told ...
A freak storm in southern Thailand capsized a dozen fishing boats and killed at least three people, but more than 100 others who were also at sea have been accounted for, officials said Monday. Seven ...
Thailand, the world's third-largest exporter of fish and fishery products, is facing something of a crisis for its international reputation. The glamorous packaging of Thai seafood in supermarket ...
File photo. A Royal Thai police ship patrols on the Tha Chin River in Samut Sakhorn, Thailand, 12 September 2018. A recent survey found 861 unregistered fishing vessels. In an effort to protect the ...
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thailand's crackdown on exploitation and slavery in its multi-billion dollar fishing industry will only succeed if its neighbours step up and adopt ...
Thailand’s fishing and seafood industry has made some improvement in working conditions, including less physical violence, but problems such as unfair pay and deception in contracting persist, a ...
(New York) – Thailand’s military government should cancel a plan to encourage prisoners to work on fishing boats given the widespread abuses in the Thai fishery sector. On December 4, 2014, Labor ...