Nyheter fra Thailand - levert av The Guardian
My RSS Feed
- State of emergency declared in Bangkok as Thailand and Myanmar hit by 7.7-magnitude earthquake – live updates
United States Geological Survey said the quake was shallow, at a depth of just 10km (six miles) with the epicentre near the central city of Mandalay
A 30-storey skyscraper under construction for government offices has collapsed in Bangkok trapping 43 workers, police and medics said, after the city was rocked by a strong earthquake.
According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the building in the north of the Thai capital was reduced to a tangle of rubble and twisted metal in seconds after the 7.7-magnitude quake in neighbouring Myanmar.
Continue reading...28 March 28 2025Myanmarhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/mar/28/myanmar-earthquake-thailand-bangkok-mandalay-latest-news-updates - Strong 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Myanmar, with tremors felt in neighbouring Thailand
Witnesses in Bangkok more than 1,000km away said people ran out onto the streets in panic
An earthquake of magnitude 7.7 has struck Myanmar, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said, causing hundreds of people to pour out of swaying buildings in Bangkok, the capital of neighbouring Thailand 1,400km away.
USGS said the quake on Friday was shallow, at a depth of just 10km (six miles) with the epicentre near the central city of Mandalay, about 50km (30 miles) east of the city of Monywa.
Continue reading...28 March 28 2025Myanmarhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/28/myanmar-earthquake-thailand-magnitude-thailand-tremors-bangkok - Ex-scout leader convicted of child sex offences after 27 years on the run in Thailand
‘Unrepentant paedophile’ Richard Burrows, 80, abused boys in 60s and 70s and was found guilty of 97 offences by Cheshire court
A former boarding school housemaster and scout leader has been convicted of nearly 100 offences, including dozens of child abuse charges, nearly 30 years after he fled to Thailand.
Richard Burrows, 80, was found guilty of abusing boys between the late 1960s and mid-1990s while working at a school in Cheshire and later as a scout leader in the West Midlands.
Continue reading...17 March 17 2025UK newshttps://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/mar/17/ex-scout-leader-convicted-of-child-sex-offences-after-27-years-on-the-run-in-thailand - British tourist missing after boat catches fire off Thai island
Alexandra Clarke, 26, was on a diving excursion near Koh Tao when blaze broke out
A British tourist is missing in Thailand after the tour boat she was travelling on caught fire off the island of Koh Tao.
Alexandra Clarke, 26, from London, was onboard the Davy Jones Locker for a diving excursion.
Continue reading...16 March 16 2025Thailandhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/16/british-tourist-missing-after-diving-boat-catches-fire-off-thai-island - US offered to resettle Uyghurs that Thailand deported to China, sources say
Canada and US said they would take 48 people held in Thai detention, according to officials, but Bangkok said to have feared upsetting China
Canada and the US offered to resettle 48 ethnic Uyghurs held in detention in Thailand over the past decade, sources have said, but Bangkok took no action for fear of upsetting China, where most of them were covertly deported last week.
Thailand has defended the deportation, which came despite calls from United Nations human rights experts, saying that it acted in accordance with laws and human rights obligations.
Continue reading...5 March 05 2025Thailandhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/05/us-offered-to-resettle-uyghurs-that-thailand-deported-to-china-sources-say - Thailand condemned for ‘shameful’ mass deportation of Uyghur refugees to China
Amid claims that deportees may face torture, family of one man say he was forcibly repatriated and will never see his children again
The family of one of dozens of Uyghurs feared to have been forcibly deported from Thailand to China have condemned the decision as “shameful”.
The deportations came despite a UN statement saying those being sent to China faced a “real risk of torture” on their return. Thailand said they had returned voluntarily “to their normal lives” with their families.However, speaking to the Guardian, the family of one of those thought to have been deported said it was “impossible” that the men would want to be sent back to China.
Continue reading...3 March 03 2025Transnational repressionhttps://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/mar/03/thailand-condemned-for-shameful-mass-deportation-of-uyghur-refugees-to-china - Thailand deports dozens of Uyghurs to China despite torture fears
Rights experts say group, who have been detained for more than 10 years, face risk of disappearance and imprisonment
Dozens of Uyghurs have been deported from Thailand to China in the face of warnings from human rights experts that there is a high risk they will suffer torture, enforced disappearance and imprisonment.
US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, on Thursday said the US condemned Thailand’s move “in the strongest possible terms”.
Continue reading...27 February 27 2025Uyghurshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/27/thailand-deports-dozens-of-uyghurs-to-china-despite-torture-fears - Beatings, torture and electric shocks: freed scam compound workers allege horrific abuse
Lured by the promise of well-paying jobs in Southeast Asia, thousands instead allegedly end up enslaved in jail-like compounds and forced to carry out online scams
“The Chinese would shock me with electric probes almost daily. I endured this continuously for nine months,” claims Seye, a 27-year-old woman who is one of hundreds of alleged trafficking victims who streamed across the Thai-Myanmar border this month.
Seye was among 260 people, more than half of them Ethiopian, who were transferred across the border to Thailand this February by a rebel group. Several among the group agreed to be interviewed on the condition they use only their first name.
Continue reading...25 February 25 2025Myanmarhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/25/beatings-torture-and-electric-shocks-freed-scam-compound-workers-allege-horrific-abuse - Tens of thousands could be held in illegal scam compounds in Myanmar, Thai police general says
Head of anti-trafficking agency says dozens of Chinese criminal gangs were running the centres
Tens of thousands of people could be living inside illegal scam compounds in Myanmar that have proliferated near Thailand’s border, according to the head of Thailand’s anti-trafficking agency, who warned it could take months before all foreign nationals are repatriated.
Thailand has launched a major crackdown on scam compounds over recent weeks, cutting off cross-border electricity and fuel supplies.
Continue reading...21 February 21 2025Thailandhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/21/myanmar-scam-call-centre-compounds - Thousands rescued from illegal scam compounds in Myanmar as Thailand launches huge crackdown
Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos have become havens for criminal syndicates operating online scam operations and tricking thousands into enslaved work
About 7,000 people have been rescued from illegal call centre operations in Myanmar and were waiting to be transferred to Thailand, prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said on Wednesday, as the country launched a large-scale crackdown on scam centres operating on the border.
The prime minister’s announcement came after Thai police said they were preparing to receive up to 10,000 foreigners rescued from a network of notorious scam centres.
Continue reading...19 February 19 2025Myanmarhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/19/myanmar-scam-call-centre-compound-rescues-thailand-crackdown