Thailand’s new Lease law came into effect on May 1, 208. The law is intended to expand protections for renters. Some of the practices that the new law will prohibit are demanding multiple months of […]
Filipino President Rodrigo Duerte has ordered for the closure of one of Philippine’s most popular tourist destinations. Boracay Island brings in about 2 million tourists annually and generates about $1 billion from the tourism industry. However, […]
On Wednesday, German authorities reported carrying out the biggest raid in their history of an organized crime ring that trafficked women and Trans women from Thailand for prostitution. Alexander Badle, from Frankfurt’s prosecutor’s office said […]
A Texas appeals court has ruled the Relationship Privacy Act as too vague and that it violates the First Amendment rights of third party people who are not the original parties in the relationship. The Relationship […]
President Trump signed the SESTA law on Wednesday, making websites liable for “user’s speech” in the context to fight human trafficking. The new law has received widespread criticism from advocacy groups. The legislation has already […]
A report by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has named Thailand as one of 38 countries with alarming and shameful attitudes toward human rights activists in the country. In Thailand’s case, two separate incidents were […]
The Thai military junta recently passed a law mandating that elections be held by May of next year. The law, posted in the Royal Gazette, also laid out how members of the parliament will be […]
Vernon Unsworth, a British diver who helped rescue the 12 Thai boys trapped deep in a cave in the north of Thailand, is suing Tesla CEO Elon Musk for defamation. Unsworth, a Chiang Rai resident, […]
In a move seemingly out of the blue, Thailand’s police academy has said that women will no longer be able to enroll starting in 2019. As for an explanation of the policy decision, Thai authorities […]
Just weeks after Thailand legalized cryptocurrencies by emergency decree, its largest movie theatre chain, Major Cineplex will begin allowing its customers to purchase everything from tickets to popcorn using digital currencies. The partnership is with […]
Purchasing land in Thailand using Thai nominees is a fairly common loophole used by law firms and foreigners to skirt existing Thai laws. But just because it’s is sometimes a successful means for foreigners to […]
According to homeless charities across Thailand, there are an increasing amount of westerners living homeless in the Southeast Asian country. One organization, The Issarachon Foundation, estimates that over 200 westerners living in Thailand are homeless […]
The extremely popular weekend night market JJ Green will permanently close on September 13th. The night market, known formally as Chatuchak Green, opened four years ago and has become a famous nighttime hangout spot and […]
Amnesty International has joined other rights groups–including Human Rights Watch–in calling for the United Nations to institute an outright international ban on the use of “killer robots”, which they define as fully autonomous weapons systems. […]
Thailand’s ruling military junta, the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), have charged the popular leader of Thailand’s progressive Future Forward Party under the country’s draconian Computer Crimes Act, which could lead to up […]
