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Thailand

1534 – The King of Siam (Thailand) died of smallpox. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

1700s – Thailand controlled most of Laos and divided Laos into 3 states. Luang Prabang in the north, Vientiane in the center and Champassak in the south.(Worldatlas.com Laos timeline).

1828 – Siam Thai forces invaded Laos. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

1853 – Elder Elam Luddington was the first LDS Mormon missionary to Thailand. Then called Siam. (LDS Sept 1995).

June 1943 – Tens of thousands of British POWs, slavery for Japan in Thailand, Malaysia and Borneo. (Japans Gestapo. Mark Felton ©2009 UK).

1944 – The Bangkok bank was founded. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

1946 – Thailand’s King Ananda Mahidol was found shot dead in his bed at the Bangkok Royal palace. (The annals of unsolved crime. EJ Epstein ©2012 US).

9 June 1946 – King Ananda was assassinated. Bhumibol Adulyadej (born in 1927), took the throne as a teen king, after his older brother's death. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

11 May 1949 – Siam changed its name to Thailand. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

1950s – The Chinese nationalist KMT efforts in the Golden triangle also involved the CIA. Colonel Paul Helliwell operated the Transport company that flew supplies from Thailand to the KMT in Monghsat. (Merchants of madness. B Lintner M Black ©2009 Thailand).

1950-60s – Since the 1950s the Golden Triangle of Burma, Thailand and Laos was a global source of heroin. Corsican mafia and American mafia. The CIA backed a small army of Laos and Vietnamese heroin dealing mercenaries. CIA and local heroin warlords. (The mafia killed JFK. David E Scheim (c)1988 US).

1951 – Paul Helliwell and BCCI. Castle bank was set up and controlled by Paul Helliwell. In 1951 Paul Helliwell set up and ran Sea Supply corp, a CIA front for ten years. Sea Supply was used to supply KMT in Burma and Thailand, police, opium trafficking. (Global research.Peter Dale Scott 6 Sept 2008).

April 1951 – Thai border and Kuomuntang KMT. Thai Bangkok CIA front company Sea supply corp. Took control of local opium trade in Burma and Yunnan China. (Air America. Christopher Robins (c)1979 UK).

1952 – Opium, the cash crop of the Hmong hill tribes in Laos and Tonkin in 1952. The (Communist), Viet Minh confiscated almost the entire crop, then sold it on the open market in Bangkok Thailand, to fund arms from China.

1952 – Thailand was never colonized by a European power. A system of Royal legal cultural archives, of palm leaf manuscripts and bark paper. National archives were set up in 1952. Preserving historical records of the government. (Archives (c)2005 Sue McKemmish Australia).

1957-64 – In 1957 at the start of the Vietnam war, there were at least 19,000 sex slaves in Thailand, seven military bases, the US navy invested $16,000,000 in the Thai economy each year. In 1964 sex exploitation. 300,000 American brothels. “comfort women” in war zones. Korea and Japan military brothels, created by the Japanese military during World War Two. (Slavery inc Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

17 Sept 1957 – The Thai army seized power in Bangkok. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

Mid 1960s – In Laos and Thailand heroin refineries. Labs where raw opium was refined into morphine and heroin. (Merchants of madness. D Lintner. M Black ©2009. Thailand).

1962 – The New Zealand military was sent to Thailand as part of SEATO anti Communist war in Laos. NZ History.

11 May 1962 – The US sent troops to Thailand. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

Sept 1972 – Recipes from Thailand. Vicki H Budge. Friend mag.LDS Mormon.

28 Dec 1972 – Black September's Ali Hassan Salameh and the attack on the Israeli embassy in Bangkok Thailand. PLO. 6 Israelis were taken hostage. (Gideons spies. Gordon Thomas (c)2008 UK).

3 June 1974 – The last Air America aircraft left Laos. American forces left behind 36,000 Laos hill tribes who had been fighting the North Vietnamese troops. The Hmong and Iu Mien hill tribes fled to Thai refugee camps. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

Late 1970's – Robert Jantzen was the CIA station chief in Thailand. Nugan Hand bank in Australia. Drug trafficking between Thailand and Australia. Money laundering.

1975 – Vasily Ivanovich Timofeyev Thailands KGB agent intel service. Journalist cover in Bangkok 1975. Returned in 1993. Nikolai Petrovich a KGB resident in Thailand. In 1975 in Bangkok the Vietnam war had ended. The US had some military bases in Thailand after the war. The KGB were interested in these bases. Pentagon documents in Thailand and the KGB describing the administration of US military bases in Thailand. Bases was closing and the US personel were being scaled down. The KGB brought documents for $5,000 (Under cover lives ©1998 H Womak).

1975 – Voyage of a NZ yaucht the Valkay, went to Thailand to bring back drugs to NZ. National party MP's and lawyers. (The paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).

April 1975 – The LDS Mormon church in Thailand. Friend. Thailand land of living waters.

15 May 1975 – US aerial evacuation of 2,500 Hmong to Thailand from Laos.

1976 – Australian Murray Riley and Michael Hand. Nugan Hand bank. Heroin trafficking and the US mafia. Had a branch in Chiang Mai Thailand. Thai based drug trafficking, George Pierce Contis from San Francisco. Michael Hand, Stephen Hill and Mayer of Nugan Hand bank, Las Vegas. South East Asian drugs business. (Smack express. Clive Small ©2010 Australia).

March 1976 – 450,000 Thai buddha sticks were smuggled into New Zealand on the yacht “Brigadoon” in March 1976. This gave Mr Asia's Terry Clark the money to buy hundreds of kilos of high grade heroin in Asia. Martin Johnstone was Mr Asia. He got drugs on credit.(Mr Asia ©2010 Aust NZ. J Shepherd).

20 July 1976 – US Air Force brig gen Harry Aderholt lowered the US flag for the last time at military HQ in Bangkok. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

Jan 1977 – Ensign LDS Thai translation of the Book of Mormon.

1978 – British teacher John Dewhurst aged 25 was arrested by the Khmer Rouge in 1978 in the Gulf of Thailand on holiday. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

April 1978 – Khun Sa was the opium warlord whose troops controlled most of the Golden triangle, which lies between Thailand and Burma. Khun Sa controlled the heroin trade for 40 years. Mr Asia drug syndicate connections. (Mr Asia ©2010 Aust NZ J Shepherd).

1979 – The government in Laos was forced to change. Food shortages and hundreds of thousands of people fled to Thailand. (Worldatlas.com Laos timeline).

1979 – UN refugees 90,000 Khmer Rouge camps inside Thailand Sakeo camp, starvation. Camp controlled by the Thai military UNHCR starving refugees. Sakeo camp a place of control the Khmer Rouge commander Phak Lim. After the Khmer Rouge collapsed in 1979 Cambodia. A third of the population were dead. Temples were destroyed. Mass graves were found in every province. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1979 – Refugee camps on the Thai Cambodian border. The Khmer Rouge crisis. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1979-80 – The Khmer Rouge, the killing fields, archives and documents at the prisons. Mass graves. A museum opened to the public in 1980. The cold war was at its height. In Thailand, ragged starving refugees. The Thai military alert. In Jan 1979 a meeting in Ut Apao air base Thailand. Black market, smuggling, sex slavery. Thai, Chinese, American, CIA. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

3 July 1979 – Letter. Money laundering of $US3 million from corrupt officials in the Thai govt. Deak bank. (The Paradise conspiracy. Ian Wishart (c)1995 NZ).

1980s – Refugee camp on the Thai Cambodian border run by the Khmer Rouge. Khao I Dang camp in Thailand registered with the UNHCR for repatriation to Australia. Many Khmer Rouge responsible for killings slipped through the net. More than 230,000 relocated to the US, Europe, Canada and Australia. Khmer Rouge refugees. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1981 – A Regional conference of CIA station chiefs was held in Bangkok Thailand. Attending was Howard Hart who wanted weapons for the Afghan Mujahadeen from Pakistan.

1981-82 – Drug smuggling in Asia Pacific in the 1970s. 1981 the Cape Elizabeth boat. Thailand drugs, marijuana made into waterproof bricks. From Thailand to Singapore then onto America. 1981 The American drug market. Thai went for $1,200 to $1,700 per pound. $9 million. Singapore branch of an international bank. The Far East Trading centre in Hong Kong 1982. (Drug barons. Paul Copperwaite ©2010 US UK)).

Jan 1982 – Ensign LDS Mormon Church welcomes Thai Royalty.

1983 – Thailand experienced severe flooding. (Timeline of history. Siam Thailand).

1983 – Cambodian Khmer Rouge archives fell into the hands of the Vietnamese. Thai border protected by Thai soldiers. Bangkok int airport Khmer Rouge. Thai border town of Aranyaprathet unit 838, set up by the Thai military for the Khmer Rouge. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1983-92 – June 1986 China, Beijing Khmer Rouge and Vietnam. Cambodian refugees in Thailand. China, the Soviet Union and US, politics of the cold war. On the Thai side of the border early 1992 refugee camps Khmer Rouge village Chinese 1991 1983 1986. Thailand Sisakat province refugee camp Thai military and Khmer Rouge. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1984 – Paul and Elaine Lewis. People’s of the Golden triangle. Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-509-7314-8.

1984 – Thai military protection of Khmer Rouge from Cambodia. Thai Cambodia border 1984 Nong Samet, a camp 60,000 people. Thai soldiers, bombing by Vietnam, shells 10,000 shells fell on the camps in the attacks, refugeee camps set up by the UN Khao I Dang. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1985-86 – The Khmer Rouge in Thailand. Thousands of people in these camps. In 1985, 5,000 people were moved by the Khmer Rouge from Site 8 across the Thai border into Cambodia. In 1986 1,500 people were taken to Natrao and Ta Mok camps. Disappearances, control of captive people. Khmer Rouge control inside Thailand Borai 4,000 people. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

1985-86 – Khmer Rouge leaders at Borai refugee camp UN supplied. Thai soldiers guarded the camp Site 2 the largest camp 152,000 people. Cambodia's second largest city after Phnom Penh, it was in Thailand. People under control, refugees trapped in these camps, rapes and murders at Site 2. Stephane Rousseau worked for UNBRO at Site 2. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executoner (c)2005 US).

1987 – Tony Jackson. Just waiting to die. Cambodian refugees in Thailand. Oxfam.

1988 – Largest opium seizure made in Bangkok, the 2,400 pound shipment of heroin was bound for New York. It originated with Khun Sa in Burma. PBS frontline.

1989 – N Tapp. Sovereinty and rebellion.The white Hmong of northern Thailand. Oxford uni press.

1989 – Josephine Reynell. Political pawns, refugees on the Thai Kampuchean border. Refugee studies program Oxford.

1989 – Bob Maat. The sad times end of mission. The Thai Cambodian border UNBRO.

Aug 1989 – Ensign LDS Mormon Thai officials visit church leaders and sites.

1991 - Sex trafficking in Burma and Thailand. Slavery. Trafficking of Burmese women and children in brothels in Thailand. Internet. Sex Ezine.

1991 – Arrest of a Thai intel official at Heathrow airport with 49 kilos of heroin, human trafficking. (The new spy masters. Stephen Grey (c)2015 UK).

Jan 1991 – In an FBI undercover op code named 'Operation Dragon Chase', the FBI in New York seized 28 pounds of China white heroin and got indictments on ten people in the US and Thailand, with the main subject arrested in Bangkok for drug trafficking

Nov 1991 – Norah Niland. The politics of suffering. The Thai Cambodian border. Use and abuse of humanitarian aid. Uni of Dublin Ireland UK.

1992 – The Hmong began living at the Tham Krolbok Buddhist monastery . 2,000 Hmong opium addicts. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

May 1993 – The saints of Thailand. David Mitchell. Liahona LDS Mormon.

July 1993 – In Nakhon Ratchasima, a six story building collapsed, killing 102 people. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

1994 – Sex in Thailand and southeast Asia. Justin Hall. Brothels and soldiers. (Slavery inc. Lyda Cacho ©2010 UK).

1994 – It was a Hezbollah cell in Thailand that in 1994, almost, drove a truck laden with explosives into the Israeli embassy in Bangkok.

1994-98 – 1994 Refugee camps in Thailand. Cambodian and Burmese. Aug 1996 Khmer Rouge in Thailand refugee camps Ban Ma Muang. More than 60,000 refugees in Thailand. 1998 Ban Ma Muang camp UN refugees. Thai Catholic releif agency in Borai camp. (Nic Dunlop. The lost executioner (c)2005 US).

17 March 1994 – Hezbollah terrorists tried to bomb the Israeli embassy in Bangkok. The attack failed because the terrorists got in a car accident and fled the scene. The government later found C4 explosives in the car. Hezbollah has a long record of plotting terrorist attacks in south east Asia. (The Australian 9 June 2003)

12 June 1994 – US blacklist links Thai MPs to the drug trade. Golden Triangle routes. Independent UK. Heroin trafficking and the Thai parliament.

1995 – Thailand closed all its refugee camps. Forcing 4,500 refugees living in the camps to either go to the US or Laos. Also in 1995 Thailand experienced severe flooding. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

1996 – Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn university estimated that $28.5 billion went through Thailand’s money laundering system, the equivalent to 15% of Thai GDP.

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June 1997 – Thailand devaluated its currency. Foreign exchange. Thailand got a $17 billion loan. (The money mafia. World in crisis. Paul T Hellyer (c)2014 US).

20 June 1998 – The arrest of foreign paedophiles in Thailand. Craig Skehan. The Age Melbourne Vic. Thai children and foreign paedophiles living in Thailand.

20 June 1998 – New arrest in war on foreign paedophiles in Thailand. Craig Skehan. The Age Melbourne. Thai children and foreign paedpophiles living in Thailand.

28 Nov 1998 – The US embassy closes amid a security alert. Bangkok Post.

1 Oct 1999 – Burmese embassy seizure. Burmese dissidents seized the Burmese embassy in Bangkok, taking 89 people hostage including one US citizen.

15 Jan 2000 – Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almidhar fly into Los Angeles from Bangkok Thailand. Both became suicide hijackers on 9/11.

2 April 2000 – 100,000 Karen refugees from Burma (Myanmar) were living along the Thai border. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

June 2000 – A Thai said the relocation led to about 50 new meth labs along the border, Yaba pills, police corruption in Thailand. (Merchants of madness. B Lintner M Black ©2009 Thailand).

11 Sept 2001 – The al Qaeda network in Thailand from where two of the 9/11 hijackers were launched, after a meeting in Malaysia in Jan 2000, remained uninterrupted. (Inside al Qaeda ©2002 R Gunaratna).

2002 – Sean Parlaman, an American who suspiciously fell from a high rise window in Pattaya Thailand in 2002 and died. He was an anti paedophile activist, who was investigating child trafficking across the Burmese border and sex slavery of children.

13 Jan 2002 – Sex trafficking. Sunday Star Times Washington. Bangkok paedophiles and Thai police.

Sept 2002 – Tony Davis. The complexities of unrest in southern Thailand. Janes intel review vol 14 no 9.

13 Feb 2003 – Thailand arrested financier Thomas Frank White, on a request from the Mexican government. Rape of a teen boy. In 2004 he was indicted on two counts of sex tourism. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

2 May 2003 – Chuwit Kamolvisit, a brothel owner. In Bangkok was destroying homes and shops to start another brothel. Called the Taj Mahal. He spent at least $289,156 paying corrupt police. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

Aug 2003 – Arrest of Riduan Isamudddin aka Hambali in Thailand. The link between al Qaeda and the south east Asian, Bali Indonesia attack. (The 9/11 wars. Jason Burke ©2011).

2004 – Thailand's biggest lender, the Bangkok bank, the Sophonpanich family, patriarch who founded the bank, still owned up to 20%. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

26 Dec 2004 – A size 9 Earthquake and tidal wave. 9,000 dead, 230,000 in 14 countries. 9 quake. The 5^th largest since 1900. 5,322 dead in Thailand but migrants were not included. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

7 Jan 2005 – Bodies line trenches in Thailand. In Chelsea a makeshift morgue. The London Evening Standard.

26 May 2005 – In Tham Krabokthe, largest refugee camp for Hmong who had fled from Laos, was closed. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

5 July 2005 – Thousands of poor Hmong refugees from Laos. 6,500 people were evicted from their bamboo shacks. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand AP).

2006 – In 2006 Chaipas Ten Danguagul age 11 went missing in Thailand. Bangkok Post. 26 Jan 2016. http://www.bangkokpost.com/lifestyle/social-and-lifestyle/839632/missing-but-not-forgotten

April 2006 – Thai tragedy shooting by hit men. 12 June 2006. NZ news weekly. Jonica Bray. Anouska Beukman. Steve Miller of Tauranga NZ was killed by hit men in Thailand in April 2006. Natlib.govt.nz journals homocide.

21 Nov 2006 – The Moroccan govt reported that a key aide to Ayman al Zawahiri recently travelled to Morocco, using a Thai passport, pretending to be an Asian antiques dealer. His object was to coordinate the activities of a number of terrorist groups in North Africa. Western oil companies operating in Algeria, Libya and tourist sites in Tunisia and Morocco are all seen as targets. (Sratfor terror intel report. 21 Nov 2006).

20 may 2008 – Ian Shuttleworth aged 42, a British policeman, was arrested in Bangkok. Sex trafficking. He was providing security and bodyguards for Thai. Sex slavery and forcing women into brothels. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

2009 – A history of Thailand. Christopher John Baker. Pasuk Phongpaichit. Google books.

2009 – Thailand sent more than 4,000 ethnic Hmong asylum seekers back to Laos. (Worldatlas.com Laos timeline).

2009 – Merchants of madness. The meth explosion in the Golden triangle. Bertil Lintner. Michael Black. Sikwow books. ISBN 978-974-9511-59-6.

11 Aug 2009 – Judgement office Act on extradition in case betweeen public prosecutor (Thailand) and Mr Viktor Bout. Bangkok criminal court. Black case no 3/2551.

12 Dec 2009 – A New Zealand registered aircraft was detained in Thailand. Arms trafficking. A New Zealand shell company, SP trading, the plane. Simon Powers responded. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

2010 – Thailand gets 5.1 million sex tourists each year. EC VAT says 500,000 local men pay for sex with adults and minors. Despite laws against sex trafficking. (Slavery inc. Lydia Cacho ©2010 UK).

2010 – The Thai population was about 67 million. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

2011 – Global human smuggling. Comparative perspectives. David Kyle. Roy Koslovski. Smuggling in south east Asia. History south east Asia sex slavery.

27 Nov 2011 – A mental and physical hell. Sex slavery in Thailand. Aljazeera.

27 Nov 2011 – Scand Asia.com. Owners of 11 Thai brothels suspected of human trafficking. Police in Lahiti. Victims.

29 Nov 2011 – Thailand forced labour and child labour discrimination. Press release ITUC Brussels Belgium. Rape is not work. Scoop NZ.

6 Dec 2011 – Cheryl Pereras one child fails to break the chains of child sex slavery. Samarith. Steve McLean. Toronto.

9 Dec 2011 – Lawi Weng. Burmese migrants sent for deportation trafficked in Thailand. Brothels in Thailand. The Irrawaddy.

31 March 2012 – Thailand arrests Vito Roberto Palazzolo, South African Mafia banker wanted in Italy. Global Post.

1 April 2012 – Interpol, capture of mafia boss in Bangkok Thailand wanted in Italy. Vito Roberto Palazzolo aged 64. Money laundering and drug trafficking. Royal Thai police.

17 Nov 2012 – Safe world for women. Thailand’s officials blame tourists, rape victim. Reuters Trustlaw.

19 Nov 2012 – Southeast Asia women face increase of sex trafficking. Bikya Masr. Bangkok Thailand police, women are forced into the sex trafficking

13 Dec 2012 – DRI cracks down on gold smuggling from Thailand. New Delhi India. Economic Times.

7 June 2013 – Thailand battles escalating drug trade. Drug trafficking in Myanmar, Laos and Thailand is a threat. CCTV news.

18 July 2013 – Thailand fights drug gangs in Golden Triangle with help from China. Huffington post. General Manop Senakun.

17 Aug 2013 – Tourists as targets of Bangkok bombers. A Taiwanese man was in intensive care, Mr Xu. Terrorists second Bangkok bombing. Khaosod English. The Guardian UK.

27 Sept 2013 – Christopher Bucktin. British drug barons accused of missing one of the worlds biggest smuggling operations being established from Thailand trial in New York. Mirror UK.

12 Oct 2013 – Wynyard group new Zealand deal with Thailand. Top news NZ. http://topnews.net.nz/category/companies/wynyard-group

17 Oct 2013 – Thailand must do more to end human trafficking. New Internationalist blog. Iris C Gonzales. Sex slaves and begging.

16 Dec 2013 – Kiwi on meth charges. Olivia Wannan. Tried to sell crystal meth in Thailand. Life in jail. Halpin Thailand for crystal meth. Dominion Post.

5 May 2014 – 6.3 earthquake. (Timelines of history. Siam Thailand).

6 May 2014 – Thai meth bust nets Cambodian. The Phnom Penh Post.

26 June 2014 – Russian mafia boss arrested in Thailand. Anadolu agency. Alexander Matusov aged 52. Chelkovo mafia members kidnappings in Russia.

5 July 2014 – Two held for kidney trafficking scam. Two Cambodians arrested for trafficking in human kidneys, sent organ donors to Thailand for operations. Bangkok Post.

15 July 2014 – Kiwi (New Zealand), tourist Casey Hanson aged 21. Thai police station. Possession of counterfeit US currency. Myles Hume. The Press. Stuff.co.nz.

23 July 2014 – Anti drug cop arrested in Thailand over meth. The Phnom Penh Post. Cambodia.

10 Aug 2014 – Thailand clamps down on surrogates. Thai police investigate surrogate baby trafficking network with ties to organised crime in Japan and China. Sunday Times UK.

2 Sept 2014 – Fears paedophiles targeting Thai surrogacy. 3 news NZ. Tom McRae Australia.

18 Oct 2014 – Trafficking of Rohingyas. Terrified victims of human trafficking face uncertain future. Thai police and army guilty of trafficking. Thai police and military sell Rohinghas to human traffickers, for abuses. Thailand is downgraded to the lowest on a US report on human trafficking. Organised slave trade. (Jonathan Head. BBC UK).

19 Oct 2014 – Trafficking captives in Thailand tell. Behind bars. Families fight to be free. Phuketun. Men, women and children held captive for seven. Report by Chutima Sidasatian in Hat Yak and Alan Morison in Phuket. Phuket wan tourism news.

20 Oct 2014 – Phuket wan tourism news. Thailand’s secret trade in people creates divisions between police and trafficking experts. Chutima Sidesathiam and Alan Morisen.

3 Nov 2014 – Thailand’s trafficking trade grows as officials avoid the truth. Phuketwan Tekuapa. Human trafficking the world’s destitute people.

13 Nov 2014 – New Zealand’s Wynyard and Thai drug crime. Software company Wynyard group and the Royal Thai government, drug trafficking signed a contract. Thailand drugs agency. Stuff.co.nz.

13 Nov 2014 – New Zealand company Wynyard group. Royal Thai government. Narcotic and corruption. UAE. https://www.wynyardgroup.com/media/607674/141113_oncb_media-release_final.pdf

17 Nov 2014 – In Thailand about quarter of a million children were held in sex slavery in brothels. (Aangirfan).

25 Nov 2014 – Thai police corruption. Police corrupt patronage. The Guardian UK.

1 Dec 2014 – Thailand, crown prince strips wife’s family of royal name amid corruption. Thailand’s crown prince Vajiralongkorn and royal consort princess Srirasm in Mardeka in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. Fox news.31 Aug 2007 photo.

26 Dec 2014 – Kiwi New Zealander, busted with drugs in Phuket. In a Thai jail, Taylor Grainger aged 41. 1.2grams of meth and 0.95 gams of cocaine. Newstalk NZ.

26 Dec 2014 – New Zealander accused of drug possession in Thailand. Meth, a Kiwi in his 40s in Patong. 1.2 grams of meth in 2 packs and one gram of cocaine. TVNZ.

30 Dec 2014 – A New Zealander, Kiwi, was arrested in Phuket for drug dealing, he is wanted for fraud in NZ. Grainge Taylor and credit card fraud, Westpac. Archives on paper. Phuket Gazette.

30 Dec 2014 – James Ihaka who was arrested in Thailand is also wanted in NZ. A Kiwi on drugs charges. Grainger Madgwik. 1g of cocaine and 1.2g of meth. Taylor Grainger 41 years old aka Grange Taylor. NZ Herald.

8 Jan 2015 – Thailand wants refugees back. Ekaphop Luera aka Tang Acheewa. Shown with New Zealand passports on facebook. NZ Herald.

9 Jan 2015 – Thailand’s police officers were sacked for corruption. Gambling dens, sex slavery, smuggling and trafficking. Ancient Buddhist relics and statues were also taken from Cambodia. (Private Eye mag UK).

28 Jan 2015 – UK tourists in New Zealand, Jameison aged 47 with 52,000 child porn images. He was a teacher who had child porn. Middlebourgh news. Andrew White. He worked at a school in Thailand, he was deputy head teacher and head child protection officer. The Northern Echo UK.

29 Jan 2015 – Kiwi New Zealanders mystery death in a Thai hotel. A NZ man went to the UK, to ask about his sister, who was found dead in a Thai hotel. TVNZ. Cosmopolitan.

31 Jan 2015 – A New Zealander was shot and injured in Thailand. NZ Herald

2 Feb 2015 – Two bombs exploded in Bangkok in shopping malls. Explosions in shopping malls. Siam Paragon shopping mall. Sydney Morning Herald.

2 Feb 2015 – Thai rich train on fire. The river Kwai in Kanchanaburi, 200 European tourists. Stuff.co.nz.

5 Feb 2015 – Murdered, found dead in New Zealand. Ivan Peter Kapluggin aged 76. A British man with a UK passport. He got a New Zealand visa to live in Thailand. Suspected Paedophile. Sun Live.

5 Feb 2015 – US Santa Cruz county deputy, going to fight human trafficking in Thailand. Santa Cruz Sentinel US.

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2 May 2015 – More than 30 graves, migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh. Found in southern Thailand. The mass grave site was found in the Sadao district of Songkhla province. Int Business Times.

9 May 2015 – More than 100 migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar were found in Thailand's south. More than 100 Rohingya migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh were found in Thailand's southern Songkhla province. 111 migrants in the jungle. Reuters.

17 May 2015 – More officials suspected of corruption to be suspended. Government workers face investigation for corruption and fraud. Suspended from work. Thai visa news Bangkok.

19 May 2015 – Thailand arrests a boss of a human trafficking network, amid boat arrivals in Indonesia. People smuggling crisis in the region. ABC online.

20 May 2015 – Arrested Thai, alleged human trafficking boss has connections to a Thai political party. Straits Times.

20 Aug 2015 -Terrorists target tourists. 10 of the dead at Erawan in Bangkok were tourists. Telegraph UK.

21 Aug 2015 – Two missing tourists have been found safe in Phuket. Two tourists went missing during a trip to Koh Racha Noi. Thai visa news.

25 Aug 2015 – Man accused of killing British tourists in Thailand. Two Burmese men have been accused of the murder of two British tourists in Thiland in Sept 2014. The Guardian UK.

1 Sept 2015 – French tourist Florian Bourdla, and a fatal fall down a Thai waterfall. Five tourists. Daily Mail.

19 Oct 2015 – Bomb explosion in southern Thailand. Two soldiers were killed and five wounded. Twitter. Sputnik.

23 Oct 2015 – Anonymous hacked the Thai government Telecom website and exposed data. Techworm. Bangkok Post. Vijay Prabu.

10 Nov 2015. Thai general trafficking. Death camps on the Thai Malaysian border. Victims starved to death. AFP. Yahoo news.

2 Dec 2015 – The body of kidnaped Australian Hells Angels member Wayne Schneider was found in Thailand. The 38 year old NSW Hells Angels member's body was found in Sattahip district of Chonburi province Thailand. A Thai warant for the arrest of Antonio Bagnato age 26 for kidnaping and meth. Wayne Schneider's Thai wife is in UAE Dubai. Corrupt police Sex tourism area of Pattaya Thailand. Stuff.co.nz. Lindsay Murdoch. Ransa Spooner. Fairfax Australia.

4 Dec 2015 – Ten Syrians linked to ISIS entered Thailand in Oct 2015 to attack Russian interests. Ynetnews.

4 Dec 2015 – A Malaysian businessman was shot dead in Songkhla province southern Thailand. The 54 year old victim Le Ah Han from Alor Setar Kedah. Two gunmen hit the victim with 10 shots while he was in his car. Business in property in Thailand. The Star.

4 Dec 2015 – Variety Jones from Silk road was arrested in Thailand. Wired.

4 Dec 2015 – An Israeli man who was wanted by Interpol red notice, for organ trafficking and fraud, was arrested at Ataturk airport Istanbul Turkey. Boris Walker arrived on a flight from Bangkok Thailand. Todays Zaman.

5 Dec 2015 – American confessed to the kidnap and murder of Aussie biker. Tyler Gerard age 21 was arrested at the Cambodian border. Hells Angels member Wayne Schneider. 26 year old Australian Antonio Bagnato and 3 other Australian men . Drug trafficking, meth with bikies in Australia;. Bangkok post.

10 Dec 2015 – Convicted Australian paedophile with a New Zealand passport was arrested in Thailand on child sex offences. An Australian teacher Peter Dundas Walbran from Sydney. He was found teaching at a school 600km from Bangkok. Rape and molestation of boys. (One news TVNZ. ABC Australia).

10 Dec 2015 – Paedophile travelling on a New Zealand passport was arrested in Thailand. An Australian convicted of child sex offences. Peter Dundas Walbran age 59 from Sydney Rape and molestation of boys some aged 8. He will be deported to New Zealand. MFAT NZ ministry of foreign affairs and trade. NZ Herald.

17 Dec 2015 – Anti Corruption digest. Thai police general who exposed corrupt officials and human trafficking seeks asylum in Australia. http://anticorruptiondigest.com/anti-corruption-news/2015/12/17/thai-officer-who-exposed-corrupt-officials-involved-in-human-trafficking-seeks-asylum-in-australia/#axzz3yEgWll3y

21 Dec 2015 – In Chiang Mai Thailand a bus plunged into a ravine. The driver fled from an earlier crash with a truck. 13 Malaysians were killed. The Star online. http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2015/12/21/thai-holiday-ends-in-tragedy-bus-plunges-into-ravine-as-driver-flees-from-earlier-collision-with-a-t/

23 Dec 2015 – A man from Singapore dies in Thailand. He fell from a bridge then got. hit by a car. Mr Wu Zhiming age 47 worked 3 jobs. A security officer, a Uber driver and in a resaurant. He had operated kindergartens for small children. The Starits Times. Shea Driscoll. http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/singaporean-man-dies-in-thailand-after-falling-from-bridge-and-getting-hit-by-car

25 Dec 2015 – Two British tourists were murdered in Thailand. Amnesty int wants an independent probe into Thai police torture. BBC UK. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35178204

14 Jan 2016 – Anonymous releases 1gb of data from the supreme court of Thailand. Softpedia news. Catlin Cimpanu. http://news.softpedia.com/news/anonymous-releases-1gb-of-data-from-supreme-court-of-thailand-498941.shtml

22 Jan 2016 – New Zealand's Wynyard group signs Thai govt corruption. http://www.bloggang.com/mainblog.php?id=pressrelease&month=25-01-2016&group=7&gblog=803

22 Jan 2016 – New Zealand's Wynyard group signs with Thailand corruption. Asha Barbaschow. Telstra links. http://www.zdnet.com/article/wynyard-group-signs-thailands-anti-corruption-commission/

24 Jan 2016 – New Zealander Ariana Brown age 43 killed in Thailand motorcycle crash. http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/76197665/amazing-woman-ariana-brown-killed-in-thailand-motorbike-crash

25 Jan 2016 - https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/kiwi-dies-after-falling-unsconscious-during-sex-in-thailand-with-bar-owner New Zealander dies suspiciously in Thailand.

25 Jan 2016 – Body found in Thailand on a New Zealand registered yaucht. NZ Herald. Phuket's Nai Harn beach. The Waitane II yaucht. The man died about 10 days ago. Found by a hotel worker. Newstalk ZB. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11579357

25 Jan 2016 – 68 year old New Zealand man dies in Thailand. Patong beach Phuket. Condo owned by a bar owner. Also New Zealander Ariana Brown died hours after a Thai fight in a motorcycle crash into a tree. Stuff.co.nz. http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/76206992/new-zealand-man-dies-in-thailand

25 Jan 2016 – New Zealander dies, sex and bar owner in Thailand. NZ City. http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=220160&cat=1033&fm=newsmain%2Cnarts