Cambodians

  • Thailand NewsPolice apprehend Cambodian beggars in Bangkok, plan deportation

    Police apprehend Cambodian beggars in Bangkok, plan deportation

    Police apprehended 10 Cambodian beggars, including children, and are preparing to deport them. The police urge Thai citizens not to give money to beggars, revealing that children are often exploited in such operations. Police officers, led by Voraprach Wutthirak, Deputy Superintendent of the Children and Women Protection Sub-Division, and Parrampha Phattanawat, Inspector of the same division, conducted a raid yesterday, September…

  • Pattaya NewsPattaya Tourist Police catch Cambodian duo in water safety sting

    Pattaya Tourist Police catch Cambodian duo in water safety sting

    Pattaya Tourist Police arrested two Cambodian men as they conducted a water safety plan in the popular holiday seaside resort. Pattaya Tourist Police, in collaboration with the Water Transport Inspection Unit, Regional Harbor Office 6 (Pattaya Branch), and the Chon Buri Marine Disaster Prevention Division, intensified their efforts to enhance water safety over the past weekend. The joint inspection aimed…

  • Thailand NewsChanthaburi: Van smuggling Cambodians across border stopped

    Chanthaburi: Van smuggling Cambodians across border stopped

    Immigration officers in Chanthaburi intercepted a suspicious van attempting to smuggle illegal immigrants into the country. The incident occurred on Wednesday, August 14. The officers, led by Veerayos Karunyathorn, Deputy Commander of Immigration Division 2, and Sawat Chotiranaphas, Deputy Commander of Chanthaburi Immigration, were conducting routine checks on main and secondary roads to curb illegal immigration activities. While patrolling Sukhumvit…

  • Thailand NewsCambodian PM’s visit to Thailand aims to resolve maritime dispute

    Cambodian PM’s visit to Thailand aims to resolve maritime dispute

    Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet is set to visit Thailand for a one-day official discussion on Wednesday, with a crucial focus on the protracted joint development of natural resources within the disputed maritime boundary shared by both nations. This was announced on Monday by both the Foreign Ministry and Government House. The visit, which is anticipated to include a meeting with…

  • Thailand NewsChon Buri: Four Cambodian men posing as fake monks apprehended in Si Racha

    Chon Buri: Four Cambodian men posing as fake monks apprehended in Si Racha

    Four Cambodian individuals posing as fake monks were apprehended by immigration police on a mountain near a community in the Si Racha district, Chon Buri. They were disguised as fake Buddhist monks in yellow robes, residing in makeshift shelters. The operation was carried out this morning, December 1, following residents’ grievances about several Cambodian nationals masquerading as monks and asking…

  • Covid-19 NewsLocked in a construction worker camp in Bangkok – Thailand’s hidden Covid tragedy | VIDEO

    Locked in a construction worker camp in Bangkok – Thailand’s hidden Covid tragedy | VIDEO

    Friso Poldervaart and Greg Lange, founders of the Bangkok Community Help Foundation, spoke to The Thaiger this week about the critical problems emerging in some of the worker and construction camps. Some 80,000 people – mostly Burmese, Cambodian and Thai workers – have been isolated in these shanty towns, basically imprisoned. They are guarded by Thai police and army. Some…

  • Thailand NewsMigrant workers ask Thai government for assistance during the pandemic

    Migrant workers ask Thai government for assistance during the pandemic

    With Covid-19 affecting many migrant communities in Thailand, Cambodian workers are now asking the Thai government for help. A petition calling for assistance during the pandemic to help with providing food, financial support and medical services was submitted this week to the Thai Ministry of Labour and Parliament. Thousands of Cambodian migrant workers signed the petition, which was submitted by…

  • Covid-19 News515 test positive for Covid at construction site in Nonthaburi, mostly migrant workers

    515 test positive for Covid at construction site in Nonthaburi, mostly migrant workers

    Another construction site, this time in Nonthaburi, north of Bangkok, has reported an outbreak of Covid-19 after active testing revealed 515 people infected with Covid-19, over half of the 959 total workers who were there and screened. The worksite, Sin0-Thai, has been ordered to close. The majority of those who tested positive were asymptomatic, according to provincial health officials who…

  • Crime News3 Cambodian men arrested for Pattaya knife attack

    3 Cambodian men arrested for Pattaya knife attack

    Police in Chon Buri province’s Phan Thong subdistrict say 2 Cambodian men were seriously injured this after 3 co-workers attacked them with knives. The incident happened at 1pm on Friday. The 2 men, named only as 28 year old “Rai Rai” and 30 year old “Suporn”, were both bleeding from several slash wounds on their arms and torso when police…

  • World NewsJoint operation nabs 29 illegal Cambodian migrants in a Kaeo

    Joint operation nabs 29 illegal Cambodian migrants in a Kaeo

    Officials in the eastern border province of Sa Kaeo, with help from other law enforcement agencies, arrested 29 illegal migrant workers from Cambodia last night in the Ta Prayha subdistrict. Led by the deputy commander of the Burapha Forces, an elite squadron also known as the Tigers of the East, a large team located the group, who were on foot…

  • Thailand NewsDozens of Cambodians arrested for attempting to enter Thailand illegally

    Dozens of Cambodians arrested for attempting to enter Thailand illegally

    Thailand’s border patrol forces are upping their game in the fight to prevent the Covid-19 virus being imported by illegal migrants. A report in The Pattaya News says officials have arrested dozens of Cambodian workers for entering the country illegally. The arrests took place in Sa Kaeo, in the east of the country, less than 50 kilometres from the Cambodian…

  • World NewsCombined force arrests 107 illegal Cambodian migrants within a day

    Combined force arrests 107 illegal Cambodian migrants within a day

    Immigration officials in Sa Kaeo province, together with border police and the Thai military, have arrested 107 illegal immigrants since yesterday. Sa Kaeo lies about 200 kilometres east of Bangkok at the Cambodian border. The commander of the Burapha Armed Forces (Tigers of the East) – the nickname of the military clique attached to the 2nd Infantry Division, the Queen’s…

  • Thailand NewsImmigration police catch 54 illegal immigrants at Thai-Cambodia border

    Immigration police catch 54 illegal immigrants at Thai-Cambodia border

    Thai immigration police have arrested a Cambodian man along with 53 other Cambodian nationals he had smuggled across the border into Thailand. The arrests took place in the province of Sa Kaeo, about 200 kilometres east of Bangkok. The man, named as 46 year old La Peun, confessed to police that the migrants had paid him 3,000 baht each to…

  • Phuket News3 more Cambodians arrested as part of Phuket human trafficking ring

    3 more Cambodians arrested as part of Phuket human trafficking ring

    2 Cambodian women and 1 man have been arrested in Phuket’s Patong municipality as part of a human trafficking ring where children were routinely beaten with wire hangers if they failed to meet their 3000 baht per day quota selling floral garlands. The arrests of 27 year old Chanta, 32 year old Lia and 32 year old Kaew (the man),…

  • Northern Thailand NewsFive killed in Sa Kaew passenger van crash

    Five killed in Sa Kaew passenger van crash

    PHOTOS: Thai Rath A Thai van driver has been killed along with four Cambodian passengers after a car veered across a traffic median and crashed head-on into them. The accident occurred at 10.30am yesterday on the Aranyaprathet-bound Suwansorn road in Wattana Nakhon district of Sa Kaew, on the Cambodian border, east of Bangkok. Police report that a Cambodian girl and…