Bangkok - The Thai Foreign Affairs Ministry on Monday denied that a Hmong refugee was severely beaten over the weekend in a camp controlled by the Thai military as part of its efforts to forcefully repatriate 5,400 members of the ethnic minority to communist Laos.
Authorities detained Joua Va Yang, who had guided a BBC team to Laos to document the plight of the Hmong in 2004, on Saturday night in Huay Nam Khao refugee camp in Phetchabun province, the ministry's deputy spokesman Thani Thongpakdi confirmed.
Pattani, Thailand - Thai security forces fought with suspected Muslim militants in Narathiwat province Monday in a clash that left three insurgents dead and two captured, army sources said.
Insurgents killed two villagers in separate incidents in Pattani province, part of Thailand's southernmost region where 3,700 people have fallen victim to sectarian violence over the past five years.
Bangkok - Thailand's food exports to Japan rose 30 per cent last year, benefiting from the Japanese market's health concerns about Chinese imports, media reports said Sunday.
Thai exports to Japan in 2008 were valued at 100 billion baht (2.8 billion dollars) and could continue to rise this year if the Japanese market continued to be wary of chemical-contamination of Chinese food products, President of Thailand's National Food Institute Yuthasak Supasorn told the Thai News Agency (TNA).
Bangkok - Thai authorities have allegedly arrested a Hmong refugee who once guided a BBC TV team to Laos to document atrocities committed against the minority group, a Hmong advocacy group claimed Sunday.
"Around 8:30 pm Saturday night, Thai authorities in Huay Nam Khao camp arrested Joua Va Yang, a former guide for the BBC," Chicago- based Hmong Advocate Joe Davy said in a statement.
"Witnesses on the scene claim that authorities had beaten Mr Yang very badly during the arrest," Davy said.
Bangkok - China's Tsingtao Brewery Co has set up a joint venture with Thai partners to invest 2 billion baht (55.5 million dollars) in beer production near Bangkok, media reports said Saturday.
Theparak Luengsuwan, one of the Thai investors, said at a press conference that Tsingtao has chosen Thailand over Malaysia for its first-ever overseas brewery partly because of a free trade agreement the kingdom has in place with Australia.
Bangkok - The Thai Foreign Affairs Ministry on Monday denied that a Hmong refugee was severely beaten over the weekend in a camp controlled by the Thai military as part of its efforts to forcefully repatriate 5,400 members of the ethnic minority to communist Laos.
Pattani, Thailand - Thai security forces fought with suspected Muslim militants in Narathiwat province Monday in a clash that left three insurgents dead and two captured, army sources said.
Bangkok - Thailand's food exports to Japan rose 30 per cent last year, benefiting from the Japanese market's health concerns about Chinese imports, media reports said Sunday.
Bangkok - Thai authorities have allegedly arrested a Hmong refugee who once guided a BBC TV team to Laos to document atrocities committed against the minority group, a Hmong advocacy group claimed Sunday.
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Bangkok - China's Tsingtao Brewery Co has set up a joint venture with Thai partners to invest 2 billion baht (55.5 million dollars) in beer production near Bangkok, media reports said Saturday.
