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Report documents 'slavery' in Thailand

20 Jun 2013 : The government is doing too little to stop tens of thousands of trafficking victims being forced into "modern slavery" in the sex trade, fishing-related industries and domestic servitude in Thailand, the annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report by the US State Department has warned.
There are no 'buffaloes'

20 Jun 2013 : In this heated political divide, the mud-slinging includes terms like "yellow/multi-colour buffalo fascists, brainwashed tools of the ammart" and "red buffalo thugs, brainwashed tools of Thaksin [Shinawatra]". Such insulting, derogatory branding is not only unfair and in poor taste, it’s also a gross generalisation that carries little truth.

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EDUCATION
Govt to merge 2,290 small schools
31 May 2013 : A least 2,290 small schools will be merged with larger ones, according to Education Ministry plans for managing schools with fewer than 60 students.
Land of the locust eaters
31 May 2013 : Despite recent media excitement about big city restaurants in the West that highlight bug cuisine, such as San Francisco's Don Bugito, New York's Brooklyn Kitchen and Nice's Michelin-starred Aphrodite, insect-eating is nothing new nor exotic in Thailand, where carts selling crispy fried grasshoppers can be spotted only a few metres from a KFC.
Academics rail against populist rule
30 May 2013 : The second generation of the government's populist policies has become a political tool to accumulate power, academics claim.
Sukumpol blasts BRN chiefs, calls them liars
30 May 2013 : Defence Minister Sukumpol Suwanatat has labelled two southern insurgency leaders as liars for accusing state authorities of using violence against people in the deep South.
German fugitive Kohl caught
30 May 2013 : German-born criminal Carlo Konstantin Kohl was arrested by Thai police on Thursday after he fled from a transit lounge at Suvarnabhumi airport through a fire exit while his Australian police escort was asleep two weeks ago, police said.
Police suspect more than robbery in Malaysian crown prince case
30 May 2013 : PHUKET - Police have arrested two suspects following the break in at a room in a five-star hotel and the bashing of a member of the royal guard of the visiting crown prince of Kedah state of Malaysia.
Wheel falls off Nok Air plane
30 May 2013 : The left wheel of the nose undercarriage of a Nok Air passenger plane fell off as it landed on Thursday morning at Mae Fah Luang airport in Chiang Rai, reports said.
Cheating the cheaters
30 May 2013 : Foreign workers are useful. They fill the jobs we don’t have the proper skills to do, or the jobs that we simply don’t want to do.
Suranand to hear out RDS grievances
30 May 2013 : Prime Minister's secretary-general Suranand Vejjajiva will hold a discussion with representatives of the Rural Doctors Society (RDS) Thursday, a week before the group's planned mass rally in front of the premier's house.
F1 backers feel the heat, as communities oppose plans
29 May 2013 : Thailand's ambitious plan for a Formula 1 street race in Bangkok is under intensifying pressure from critics who questioned the location, the old town, and even the event itself.