BANGKOK: Seven Chinese men were tricked into travelling from Laos to Chanuman district, Amnat Charoen province, with promises of work in Thailand, offering good wages.

A Nepali citizen, who was lured by the promise of attractive employment in Laos and forced into illegal work, has been repatriated to Nepal with the assistance of Thai authorities. The man, who had fled to Thailand, was sent back to Nepal on Friday, the Nepali Embassy in Bangkok said in a statement.

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The country is also seasonally affected by smoke from fires lit by farmers across South-east Asia. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Cutting into stacks of cotton in a Bangkok warehouse, Thai authorities unveil 1.65 tonnes of crystal meth, the kingdom's largest-ever seizure of the drug. Thailand sits by the "Golden Triangle", where its border meets Laos and Myanmar,

BANGKOK: Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra ordered public transport in Bangkok to be free for a week from Saturday (Jan 25), as authorities try to reduce traffic and ease the smog that has choked the city for days.

The Transport Ministry has given the green light for Bangkok Port to have an entertainment complex.Minister Suriya Jungrungreangkit on Friday said his deputy, Manaporn Charoensri, will form a committee on the feasibility of developing an entertainment complex in areas such as ports.

Thai authorities have successfully smashed the country's largest online escort service platform, arresting five of its administrators and rescuing two allegedly underage victims. Police General Thatchai Pitaneelaboot,

Most Thais oppose the government's plan to legalise casinos and online gambling, moves the authorities say would boost tourism and investment, an opinion survey found on Sunday (Jan 26). The government this month approved a draft law to allow casinos in entertainment complexes and gambling online.

BANGKOK -- Thailand plans to tap into improving regional rail connections, particularly the affordable route eventually linking China to Malaysia, to attract millions more visitors this year, according to the head of the country's tourism authority.

Thailand and China will work together to combat fast-growing networks of illegal call centres along the Thai border with Myanmar and Cambodia, often staffed by trafficked workers, that aim to defraud people in phone and online scams.

The government this month approved a draft law to allow casinos in entertainment complexes and gambling online. The only legal gambling in Thailand is at state-controlled horse races and a lottery, but soccer betting and underground gambling and lotteries are rife, with vast sums of money changing hands.