[Thai] General, police among 72 indicted for human-trafficking

Prosecutors on Friday moved to indict 72 people, including a senior army officer, in a multinational human-trafficking ring revealed when dozens of bodies were unearthed in the jungles of Songkhla province.

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Is the US Ignoring Human Trafficking Abuses to Score Its TPP Trade Deal?

Lured by the promise of $316 a month to work on road construction, Arjunan traveled last year from India to Malaysia, where his employer confiscated his passport and decided to pay him just $36 — barely enough to cover food... By Avi Asher-Schapiro.
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White House So Desperate To Get TPP Approved, It Agrees To Whitewash Mass Graves & Human Trafficking In [Thailand and] Malaysia

At the end of last month, Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), better known as "fast track" for various trade agreements, was approved after a series of back and forth procedural moves by Congress. This means that Congress no longer has the (Constitutionally-provided) power to have a say...

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