The following is a partial list of over 36,000 schools in Thailand. See also List of universities in Thailand.
Public schools Bangkok *Banjamarachalai school * *Chulalongkorn University Demonstration School *Debsirin School *Horwang School *Kasetsart University Laboratory School *Mahapritharam Girls' School *Patumkongka School *Patumwan Demonstration School, Srinakharinwirot University *Prasarnmit Demonstration School, Srinakharinwirot University *Rachawinit School *Ratcha-o-rot School *Rittiyawannalai School *Samsenwittayalai School *Satriwithaya School *Satriwitthaya 2 School *Suankularb Wittayalai School *Sriayudhya School *Suksanari School[] *Taweethapisek School *Traimit Witthayalai School *Triam Udom Suksa School *Triam Udom Suksa Pattanakarn School *Triamudomsuksanomklao School *Vajiravudh College *Wat Phrasri Mahadhat Secondary Demonstration School, Phranakhon Rajabhat University *Watsuthiwararam School *Yothinburana School
Central Thailand Government High school Siyanuson School, Chanthaburi, Thailand *The Demonstration School of Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University *The Demonstration School of Nakhon Sawan Rajabhat University *The Demonstration School of Rambhai Barni Rajabhat University *The Demonstration School of Thepsatri Rajabhat University *The Laboratory School of Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya Rajabhat University *Mahidol Wittayanusorn School *Naresuan University Secondary Demonstration School *Piboonbumpen Demonstration School of Burapha University *Kannasootsuksalai School
Norteasthern Thailand *Ratchasima Witthayalai School *Suranaree Witthaya School
Northern Thailand *Phayao Pittayakom School *Samakkhi Witthayakhom School *Thumpinwittayakom School *Uttaradit School *Nakhonsawan School *Ban Sam Ruen School *Srisawatwittayakarn Nan School
Southern Thailand *Kanlayanee Si Thammarat School
Private schools Bangkok *Assumption College *Assumption College, Si Racha *Assumption Convent School *Bangkok Christian College *Mater Dei School *Nantawan Trilingual School *Praht Thai School *Rajini School *Saint Dominic School *Saint Francis Xavier School (Nonthaburi) *Saint Gabriel's College *Saint John's Group of Schools and University *Saint Joseph Convent School *Sacred Heart Convent School *Sarasas Ektra School *Sarasas Witaed Bangbon School *Sarasas Witaed Suksa School *Satit Bilingual School of Rangsit University *Thewphaingarm School *Wattana Wittaya Academy
Central Thailand *Sriwittayapaknam School *Sahavith School (Suphanburi) *Satit Udomseuksa Academy
Northern Thailand *Dara Academy *Montfort College *Prince Royal's College *Prachabumrung School *Anuban Muang Chiangrai School *Anuban Muang Phayao School
Southern Thailand *Srithammarat Suksa School
North Eastern Thailand Marie Vithaya School(St.Mary's College)
International schools Bangkok *Anglo Singapore International School *Bangkok International Academic School *Bangkok International Prep School *Bangkok Patana School *Bromsgrove International School Thailand *Charter International School *Concordian International School *Ekamai International School *Harrow International School, Bangkok *International Community School *Garden International School Bangkok *International Pioneers School *International School Bangkok *KIS International School *Lycée Français International de Bangkok *Modern International School *Nantawan Trilingual School *New International School of Thailand *New Sathorn International School *Niva International School *Pan-Asia International School *Ramkhamhaeng Adventist International School *Rasami International School *RC International School *Redeemer International School of Thailand *Ruamrudee International School *Shrewsbury International School *Siam International School *Singapore International School *St.Andrew’s International School *St.George's International School *St. John’s International School *St. John's North American International School *Saint John Mary International School *St.Stephen’s International School *Thai - Chinese International School *Thai - Japanese Association School *Thai Sikh International School *The American School of Bangkok *The Regent's School *Wells International School
Northern Thailand *American Pacific International School *Chiang Mai International School *Family Learning Center of Chiang Rai *Grace International School *Lanna International School Thailand *Nakorn Payap International School *Prem Tinsulanonda International School
Is it possible to obtain a list showing the school's address and the name of the Principal or Head Teacher as well please? With mnay thanks, Tim Parker Thailand English Language Tuition, Bangsaen. Te. 038 395 137
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2. 22-11-2010 16:57
Less than three weeks ago I wrote an email confirming my intent to commence a campaign to turn the Thai Buddhist Monks on their heads and find out just what some of them have been hiding behind their orange robes...I had found a monk in one temple just south of the river between the Taksin Bridge and the Thon Buri district of Bangkok looking at hard core sex pornography in his room (door wide open) at 7.30pm one evening.. .... and look what fell from beneath their orange robes...... I wrote to some Buddhist monks and warned them of my intentions........ The Royal Thai Police knew about the 1700 Dead Foetus issue/business for more than five years. Perhaps over 50,000 babies have been killed in the past few years. How many of the mothers of these aborted babies have died due to poor medical standards for the abortions? Where are their bodies? There are a number of girls I knew who disappeared, perhaps for an abortion, whom I never ever found again. These girls have not been seen for years by anyone, I walked over 15,000 kilometres of the streets of Bangkok and Pattaya and other cities trying to find these girls and others who vanished without trace. Nobody wanted to help with the problem, not the locals nor the Thai police.
I knew about this problem and I got a member of The Royal Thai Police to come to a house where I thought someone was being abused, abortions in unmedical surroundings off Chalong Kreung Road Bangkok.. However the policeman refused to enter the property, he seemed to know about the place. He was from a police station opposite the large hotel off Chalong Kreung Menam Hotel that fronts onto the river near Soi 85 Chalong Kreung. I know another location near Soi Satthupradit 42 where something similar may have been going on behind some large red Chinese style gates. The Royal Thai Police refused to assist claiming the home owner was a Judge in The Thai Courts. The home owner declared to me he had been appointed a special position in the Court by His Majesty The King of Thailand. I did not believe him and wrote a letter to The Principle Private Secretary of His Majesty King Bhumibol advising the King's secretary of these claims. I believe the man was possibly using the address for abortions, there was a constant flow of young girls coming and going from this property. An upstairs room always kept windows sealed, never opened the shutters. It doesn't come as a surprise that one Thai-English dictionary translates Tamluat as Satan's Police. According to one long time case-worker in Thailand in 2009, despite the trainings, many policemen still consider sex with teen-age children “to be OK”. Only a handful of police officers across the Kingdom are trained on the proper treatment of children in police custody. http://www.thailawforum.com/sex-crimes-in-thailand-part3-3.html
This report has founds its way to about 5000 key people in Thailand who can explain the content to local people in Thai. On Friday 19th November 2010 this report was sent to The Foreign Ministers of over 100 countries world-wide. This report has been sent to every city/town in Thailand during the past two months. I am delighted they have ordered the death sentence upon a very evil and corrupt Thai Police General . Contrary to belief of many people there are two species of Homo Sapiens. Homo Sapiens Human and Homo Sapiens Satan. Unfortunately The Royal Thai Police are mainly Homo Sapiens Satan. This is why The Royal Thai Police have little or no regard for The Declaration Of Human Rights, they are not humans. Would you employ alligators to police children? Then why does Thailand employ satans to police their children and citizens? It was my Uncle Harry S Young who advised former President Lee Kuan Yew, how to ensure Singapore would become free of corruption. The same can be applied to Thailand and bring a future free of corruption. That is from whence former President Lee Kuan Yew adopted his nickname "Harry", from my Uncle Harry Sheffield Young who played golf with him in Singapore, their third companion former Australian Prime Minister John Howard senior, whose life was saved by my uncle in WW2. Corruption is the world's biggest killer of children. Read page 19 of the child sex abuse report it repeats the issue of police negligence. Page 19 confirms the police were protecting child sex offenders. The majority of child sex offenders in Thailand are local people. http://mulinet10.li.mahidol.ac.th/e-thesis/4337240.pdf However The Royal Thai Police and their mafia associates have been using these child sex child to frame foreigners as pedophiles as far back as 1986. According to one long time case-worker in Thailand in 2009, despite the trainings, many policemen still consider sex with teen-age children “to be OK”. Only a handful of police officers across the Kingdom are trained on the proper treatment of children in police custody. http://www.thailawforum.com/sex-crimes-in-thailand-part3-3.html A story of the local Thai police plus their volunteer mafia front man "police" secondary child sex income in the holiday resort of Pattaya Thailand by a brave selfless former British national newspaper reporter http://www.andrew-drummond.com/tag/maurice-praill/
It appears that The Royal Thai Police have signed off this report and not realised they have exposed the depth of their corrupt involvement in the child sex trade in doing so. I have noticed those who compiled the report have omitted some factors which I assume are purely because those omissions equate to the percentage of financial return and control The Royal Thai Police have criminally organised for their profit and control of the child sex trade. You should be able to work out the 33% factor just like I can see seems to be their part of the child sex industry If you inspect the report carefully it seems to expose the police and their crime concerning massive child sexual abuses. http://mulinet10.li.mahidol.ac.th/e-thesis/4337240.pdf What this report does do is indicate that there has been a serious child sex abuse situation for many years in central Bangkok. One can view the report from one direction and note that 33% of the child prostitution trade seems to be unaccounted for. I suspect this is because those compiling the report were tooled with statistics that had removed the Royal Thai Police element to this digusting trade. In other words The Royal Thai Police have been skimming a 33% share of cashflow off this satanic sex trade selling children for sex for many years.
We know they took about US$500 million in ten years from one massage parlour operator with 6000 girls employed. He got fed up with their lies and tricks went public then campaigned to become a politican. It appears The Royal Thai Police have been taking in excess of US$225 million per year as their share of the child sex trade industry for at least ten years. This excludes the issue of blackmail the police may have used upon child sex offenders to exthort even more money.
How Bangrak, Lumpini, Yannawa and Thungmahamek Police have insulted The King of Thailand... Insulting angry attacks upon His Majesty The King of Thailand are the result of corruption with The Royal Thai Police who disgrace their monarch and country. This is some of the disturbing insulting and disgusting media distributed across the Internet due to the corruption of The Royal Thai Police. http://207.7.131.231/video/f8b18u7/king-bhumibol-his-mafia-in-thailand-selling-child-porn-video
This video depicting His Majesty King Bhumipol Mahidol of Thailand as a child-porn king is 100% caused by The Royal Thai Police and their revolting methods of making money illegally conveniently failing to deal with this problem for many years..
The perverted peeping-tom Royal Thai Police ...... Back in 2008, Reuters reported that 27% of teenagers surveyed by Bangkok’s Assumption University said they might sneak off to do the wild thing on Valentine’s Day. . The Royal Thai Police have been known to tip-toe around 'maan ruut' (curtain motels) interrupting amorous couples with pesky flashlights. Now it is world news, the horror of 15,000 undeclared killings in Iraq. Isn't it time we told the world the truth about Thailand ? I clearly remember 16,000 killed before the end of the 2003 shoot to kill campaign of Mr Thaksin Shinawatra. I will never forget, he killed quite a few of my friends so I live with them in my memory every day of my life. The Royal Thai Police have covered up the true number of people they murdered @ over 16,000 not the figure of under 3000 they declared to be true through The National Human Rights Commission of Thailand. Perhaps it is a problem that The National Human Rights Commission has been staffed in part by former members of The Royal Thai Police some of whom are acquainted with Mr Thaksin Shinawatra, a former Thai police man now officially deemed to be a terrorist. I am certain The Royal Thai Police have been on the pay roll of some international terrorist associates who hide out in Thailand. There are a series of events and evidence that supports this belief. Bangrak, Yannawa and Thungmahamek police are incapable of being honest, they are corrupt compulsive liars and human rights abusers. Regards Erik Young Mr Shinawatra's Legacy............. ROYAL THAI POLICE PROFIT OUT OF CHILD SEX PORNOGRAPHY Transparency International rates The Royal Thai Police at level 4 ... where level 1 = not at all corrupt ..and... level 5 = extremely corrupt . One could read this to indicate The Royal Thai Police as 80% corrupt. Thaksin Shinawatra was a Police Lieutenant Colonel in The Royal Thai Police. Child pornography has been on sale for many years down Silom Road and Sukhumvit Road and elsewhere in Bangkok and Pattaya. The vendors are members of the Thai Mafia. The Royal Thai Police have been taking backhander payments off these vendors of child pornography for many years. Tourists out for the evening being presented with the offer of child porn VCR/DVDs is not good for Thailand. Again a serious crime that poses serious abuses of children is being used as a secondary income stream by The Royal Thai Police. Police stations that actively participate in taking money off the vendors of child pornography include Yannawa, Thungmahamek and Bangrak Police stations in Bangkok. http://bangkokpost.com/news/local/199391/child-porn-on-streets-stirs-outrage
In 2006 in Bangkok I found some younger members of the Thai mafia distributing a film clip through the mobile phone network of a girl being sexually molested by five young men. I only watched a few seconds of this one minute long film clip it absolutely freaked me out. Whilst four young men held her arms and ankles and another sexually tampered with her, she was struggling like a wild animal fighting for its life. These young members of the mafia do not go to prison they are protected by their corrupt associates in The Royal Thai Police. I saw this film in the district of Charoen Krung Road not far from the Bangrak Police Station. You cannot rely upon a police force that makes money out of child pornography they need to be dis-banded and prosecuted and replaced with a modern structured police force. In 2007 I returned from a trip to Koh Samui to find a child pornography DVD placed inside a bedroom draw unit of one of my Bangkok homes. I believe it was planted by members of The Royal Thai Police and their mafia associates. The DVD was not inside the DVD case so I had to play all the unmarked DVDs in my home to try and find the offending DVD but failed to find it. This may have been done by Yannawa police and their agents. In four incidents I encountered with The Royal Thai Police they had falsified confession statements and submitted a series of lies and witnesses statements obtained under duress to the Criminal Courts of Thailand. Royal Thai Police Sex Scandal
Please write (in Thai or any other language) and complain about Thai police corruption to Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen of NATO via this link http://www.nato.int/cps/en/SID-3B4BFD35-E159A3B6/natolive/contact.htm
There are several reports of The Royal Thai Police stealing grenades (M67) from the Thai military and selling them for around 1200 Baht each. During the Red shirt protests earlier this year it became evident that members of The Royal Thai Police had supplied M67 grenades to protestors. Perhaps the deaths of many people may have been avoided if The Royal Thai Police had been cleared out of the area. The Royal Thai Police were accepting bribes to allow truck loads of used tyres through that were then set on fire causing even more strain upon the military. It is reported that 1/3 of all prisoners in Thailand are innocent. I spent five months talking with prisoners in Klong Prem Prison Bangkok. They plead guilty even if they are innocent as a form of risk management, most of the prisoners told me 'everyone pleads guilty', to avoid the risk of receiving maximum sentences in the event that their not-guilty plea and pleadings in Court fail to convince Judges of their innocence. There are over 80,000 people imprisoned in Thailand who are innocent or have been framed by The Royal Thai Police. In the past The Royal Thai Police attacked and shot up the home of PM Kukrit Pramoj, son of a Thai Prince, following a statement he made in public. Thailand's Ministers cannot solve the problem of epidemic levels of corruption that fuel political instability without the risk of their children friends and families becoming targets of revenge attacks. It requires outside assistance or the problem will continue indefinitely I have witnessed severe unprovoked beatings committed by uniformed members of The Royal Thai Police between 2005 up to January 2010. I have witnessed four incidents of confessions authored and prepared by members of The Royal Thai Police on each occasion total fabrications and falsified confessions without any input or interrogation of the defendant/prisoner. On one occasion the defendant refusing to sign the confession had a live 17,000 volt tazer held against his chest at heart level whilst demands were made for the defendant to sign the falsified confession (2009 Bangrak Police Station Bangkok). In 1989 Bangrak Police Bangkok posing as the CIA offered to kill someone for me who owed me UK £8000. There was a rumour for years that the American CIA were exchanging weapons for Heroin during the war with Laos. I believe it was members of The Royal Thai Police using the identity CIA. I've spent 25 years mingling with every sector of Thailand's society and citizens. The Royal Thai Police are the main problem, their threat gagging politicians and preventing the end of corruption. The only solution is to disband the existing police force and open a new modern structured system of policing with new officers. In Thailand the mafia are the police and vice versa. An example of The Royal Thai Police killing children and then framing an innocent citizen can be read in the enclosed report
Link (RTF): http://www.alrc.net/doc/doc/chr61/ALRC-11d-Flawed_policing_in_Thailand.rtf
Link (PDF): http://www.alrc.net/doc/doc/chr61/pdf/40-ALRC-11d-Flawed_policing_in_Thailand.pdf
The Royal Thai Police consider torture as an acceptable means of interrogation and action on detainees to be charged/indicted. If you look at this film carefully you will see it is members of The Royal Thai Police (like the man with red base ball cap) who are man handling the prisoners. The Royal Thai Army do not wear trainers sports shoes when on duty. If you look carefully you will see some of those in part combat clothes are wearing trainer running shoes, these people are members of The Royal Thai Police. It seems to be those that have taken people away, perhaps the nine people that were badly beaten? The police have again plundered the goodwill of The Royal Thai Army, wound them up and dumped the blame upon the military. http://thailand.ahrchk.net/takbai/ see section 3 . Sadly some of the people that died were friends of mine. More police killing of children....The first child to be killed was a nine-year-old boy, Chakraphan Srisa-ard, who was shot on February 23 as police fired at the car carrying him and his mother. His father had already been arrested. One of the boy's uncles stated, "The police kept shooting and shooting at the car. They wanted them to die. Even a child was not spared."[19] The next child to be killed was a 16-month-old baby, shot in her mother's arms ... the killer 80% probability was a plain clothes Thai police officer http://www.article2.org/mainfile.php/0203/84/
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It was Bangrak CIA police (in their little office to the rear of the main Bangrak Police Station) who held a switch on 17,000 volt taser against my chest at heart level when I refused to sign a falsified statement. Of course I signed , but I signed the statement under duress. On another occasion a member of The Royal Thai Police CIA asked me to pay 300,000 Baht (£6000) to have someone removed from some digital surveillance film footage due to be forwarded to Interpol. The Thai person I knew was in 15 seconds of the film footage, allegedly with some major Thai drug dealers in a luxury apartment. This Thai CIA officer wanted me to pay the money and they'd have the film edited. I responded "leave her in the film then she can never be used as a mule/courier". Subject: Fwd: Bangrak Police and their illegal cache of grenades Here is some news about an arms cache (possibly stolen by members of Bangrak Police from the Thai military). This cache of arms was found near Bangrak Police Station and the Sriphaya Hotel where they fired a gun at me for no warranted reason whatsoever. They hid the bullet dent by ceramic tiling the underside of the top of the steel fire escape platform 9th floor of Sriphaya Hotel. If you look underneath the top platform you will see white ceramic floor tiles. I have never seen tiles underneath the top platform of a fire escape anywhere else in my life. This was Bangrak Police attempting to conceal they had unlawfully fired a bullet at someone with a hand gun, According to Thai law The Royal Thai Police are not legally permitted to shot a gun at anyone until they have first been shot at with a gun by someone else. I was totally unarmed all I had was a cigarette lighter. I believe Mr Suksan who may have been living outside Bangkok for sometime may be the victim of third parties connected to Bangrak Police storing grenades they have stolen from the military. Nobody in their right mind would store 4 grenades and launchers plus 750 AK47 rounds of ammunition on property listed in their name. My prediction is with proper uncorrupted investigation he will be found innocent, set up as a scape goat. Bangrak Police will be behind the theft and intended use of these grenades. The Southern Bangkok Criminal Court had issued a warrant for the arrest of Suksan Rangwiren on charges of illegal possession of weapons and ammunition. On Oct 7 police searched the room and found one rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) launcher, four RPG grenades, and 750 rounds of AK47 ammunition. Police suspected the weapons belonged to Mr Suksan, who rented the room. Mr Suksan admitted he rented the room from January to May this year while working as a security guard at the former office of the Puea Thai Party, which is located near the shop house, but said he did not know anything about the weapons found by police. He said he resigned his job and left the room in May and returned to his home in Wanon Niwat district in Sakon Nakhon province. He traveled to Chumphon on Oct 2 to visit a relative, Sangwian Rangwiren, who was sick. In Chumphon, he contacted police and surrendered on Tuesday after learning that a warrant had been issued for his arrest. Pol Col Panudet na Phatthalung, chief of Muang Chumphon district police, said Mr Suksan would be handed over to Bang Rak police for further questioning. Mr Suksan is a scape-goat for Bangrak Police and their mafia associates. It is Bangrak Police who need to be arrested and prosecuted, they should not play any part in any further investigations. In the past I heard some of the police and their mafia discussing how they would share out condominium developments, once they have trashed the government of Thailand. I could not believe my ears these mafia maniacs were talking about how they'd take over Thailand. They argued about who would get which condo developments as their share of the proceeds of ruining Thailand's democracy. They must be out of their crazy minds. I heard these conversation on at least ten separate occasions because they were offering some of the expected assets to members of the mafia for helping them ruin the government of Thailand. There are some other matters I have learnt about concerning Bangrak Police corruption that I have presented to The Secretary General of NATO and Prime Minister Abhisit Vejajiva. Abhisit said he had a chance to discuss the role of Thailand with the UN Secretary General while he was in New York. PM Abhisit Vejajiva met delegates at the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) summit in Brussels last week. Following Prime Minister Abisit Vejajiva's visit to Brussels, home of the office of The Secretary General of NATO Mr Anders Fogh Rasmussen he said. "My recent trip to foreign countries is considered successful as I have explained the situation in Thailand to foreign leaders and they have given support to the country's effort to bring about stability. They want to see Thailand solve the problems under democratic laws (not corruption). Bangrak Police Station has prison cells that are very dirty, unhygienic, dilapidated and a breach of basic human rights. It is common practice in Bangrak, Yannawa and Thungmahamek Police Stations for Royal Thai Police officers to prepare confession statements without a formal interview and sole input confession of their prisoner. In every case I have seen the police in these stations have written the confessions themselves without reference to the content through their prisoner. These statements are 100% falsified and prepared in order to convict a prisoner to prison, when in at least 30% of cases the prisoners are innocent and did not commit the crimes alleged. The police officers need to be suspended and prosecuted. Please write (in Thai or any other language) and complain about Thai police corruption to Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen of NATO via this link
In a period of two months there has been a rash of unsolved deaths of Foreigners in Phuket Thailand. One Canadian man in Patong,shot multiple times in dispute over property, one British man living and working out of a shop house, head bashed in, near-by the Lotus Super Store By-pass road, poisoning of an American lady, a Norwegian lady and two other foreign persons on Kho Pi Pi island, and lastly one British lady found face down in the sand on Keron beach strangled to death. None of these cases have been found to have any weight within the public news media in Thailand other than reports in the local Phuket Gazette, when it reports and then never follows up as is the norm here on the island. To date no person or persons have been found by local police and prosecuted for any of the alleged crimes/murders. Foreign Embassy Staff have registered their dismay along political circles, but as is common practice this leads to embarrassing faces all around. The recent death of the American lady on Kho Pi Pi was said to have the body taken to Bangkok for a autopsy by local police, however it was later established that the body was subsequently cremated without an autopsy having been performed. It has been established that the Thai authorities did however provide slices of the deceased skin for further examination by the deceased family at their own cost back in America. I'm wondering if this is some sort of pattern being established regarding expected follow-up by local and Bangkok police following foreigners deaths in the Kingdom Of Thailand? Is this a cover-up to save face for the future safety of foreign visitor's and tourists. It seems a backward way of doing so since all the foreign press are covering these as well as multiple other stories regarding life within Thailand. Please write (in Thai or any other language) and complain about Thai police corruption to Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen of NATO via this link
THAILAND: False criminal cases much more than a problem of money An October 17 article in the Bangkok Post reported that the Ministry of Justice there has to pay hundreds of millions of Thai Baht in compensation to people who have been wrongfully prosecuted for crimes they did not commit. The law providing for compensation, the Compensation for Victims of Crime Act BE 2544 (2001), arises from the 1997 Constitution of Thailand, which the military abrogated on September 19. Among relevant provisions, section 246 held that "Any person who has become the accused in a criminal case and has been detained during the trial shall, if it appears from the final judgement of that case that the accused did not commit the offence or the act of the accused does not constitute an offence, be entitled to appropriate compensation, expenses and the recovery of any right lost on account of that incident, upon the conditions and in the manner provided by law." According to the Post, the head of the Department of Rights and Liberties Protection has urged criminal investigators to get proof before arresting suspects, because his department has to pay out 250 million Thai Baht (USD 6.7 million) for 2890 cases of false charges from last year alone. As its entire annual budget is only 420 million Thai Baht (USD 11 million), it will spread the payments over two years, leaving the question hanging as to where the money will come from to pay those persons who claim compensation this year. The director, Charnchao Chaiyanukij, was quoted as saying that, "I would like to call on state officials involved in investigating the cases to collect clear evidence before making arrests, because wrongfully charged people, to whom the government has to pay compensation, account for more than 30 per cent of the cases deliberated." Where large numbers of serious criminal cases can be clearly identified as resting on false charges, something has gone awfully wrong. While the development of a law and office for payment of compensation to victims of state injustice in Thailand under the 1997 Constitution is laudable, the issue cannot stop there. It is not just a matter of compensation and the problems that it is causing for the limited budget of a small government department. Rather, the claims for compensation are symptomatic of deeper ailments in the entire criminal justice system. These demand many more serious questions. They include the following. What is wrong with the supervisory system of the police? Criminal investigation is central to policing. Where large numbers of persons are being arrested, charged and tried without evidence, it means that there are serious defects in the police. The organisational structure of the police should guarantee supervision of investigators by superiors, and scrutiny of their work before it is used to deprive someone of his or her liberty. If the problem of false charges in Thailand is to be addressed, it is necessary to deal with this failure of supervision. It is also necessary to address long-recognised structural problems in the police force that have arisen due to its being built on principles of self sufficiency rather than centralised state support and control. What percentage of cases is deliberately fabricated? Among the wrongful serious criminal charges, while a certain number may simply be due to careless police work, others will have been deliberately concocted against innocent people, in exchange for cash or other favours. The police in Thailand are almost universally recognised as thoroughly corrupt and frequent users of torture and other means to extract confessions and falsify material evidence. They also have strong links with the crime world. Under these circumstances, it is not sufficient to urge investigators to check the facts before submitting a case. This may simply lead to more sophisticated falsification of evidence, particularly where the charges are serious, as in the cases demanding compensation from the government. The real issues go to the nature of justice and society in Thailand. Is the level of criminal intimidation in the society so high that the guilty persons cannot be prosecuted and innocent ones used instead? Are the police so heavily influenced by criminals that they will sooner falsify cases than seek to locate and charge the culprits? How can these deep institutional and social problems be addressed? What is wrong with the laws and procedures on evidence? The 1997 Constitution brought with it many reforms aimed at improving the delivery and management of criminal justice in Thailand. It contained specific provisions on the getting of evidence before arrest and inadmissibility of confessions obtained through torture or other illegal means. Notwithstanding, the judicial system in Thailand has still tended to rely disproportionately on police and witness testimony. This makes it easy for police to lodge wrongful charges against innocent persons. One important way to address this imbalance is to place a greater emphasis on forensic evidence, particularly when obtained by independent professionals. In Thailand, the Central Institute of Forensic Science has been a pioneer in this field; however, as it has challenged the established authority of the police it has been subject to heavy attacks and its work unnecessarily hampered. Much more needs to be done to develop the institute and the laws and procedures to admit and utilise reliable forensic evidence from reputed experts in conjunction with testimony. As Thailand is a modern and advanced society with more resources compared to many other countries in Asia, there is no acceptable reason for its criminal justice system to be left behind. Much more attention must be paid to scientific methods of investigation and the bringing of specialist testimony into the courts in Thailand. What is wrong with the public prosecution? The responsibility of the public prosecutor is to review cases before taking them to trial. However, it is widely known that in Thailand the prosecutor acts with little independence and relies almost exclusively upon whatever is given by the police or other criminal investigators. The prosecutor is not involved in the investigation work, except in some special cases. One person working for the office has described it as a "meatball factory": whatever it gets, it grinds up and serves to the courts without question. The unprofessional behaviour and lack of independence of the prosecutor's office also is a serious barrier to addressing the high number of false cases going to the courts. The announcement by the director of the Rights and Liberties Protection Department that his agency is struggling to pay off the large number of compensation claims lodged by wrongfully charged persons needs to receive widespread attention in Thailand. It is not simply a matter of budget; it is a matter of justice. The Asian Human Rights Commission urges all concerned branches of government to pay serious consideration to his request for evidence-
based investigations, rather than evidence-free investigations, and examine the wider implications for their work. Above all, deep institutional defects in the police must be tackled: these have been known and studied for decades but are as yet among the biggest obstacles to the rule of law in Thailand. The AHRC also calls for widespread discussion about the problems among concerned professionals, which could be spearheaded by the Lawyers Council of Thailand and the National Human Rights Commission. They know the problems well, and are in a position to respond to them directly and concertedly. Only this way can the needed institutional solutions be found, and the costs of compensating victims of systemic injustice thereby be reduced. Perhaps it is a problem that The National Human Rights Commission is staffed in part by former members of The Royal Thai Police some of whom are acquainted with Mr Thaksin Shinawatra. On Dec 16 last year, the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of the former deputy police commissioner after he was convicted of murdering Darawadee Srithanakhan and her son Seri, who were found dead in the family's wrecked Mercedes Benz in Saraburi on Aug 1, 1994. http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/crimes/205046/chalor-stripped-of-his-rank
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3. 02-12-2010 02:55
i will be happy if i can get teaching job in any of the school, in thailand.I come from NIgeria and am twenty two yeasr old having 2 years teaching experience and having my B.ed in English language
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4. 10-02-2011 02:44
I was wondering if they have trade schools that teach industrial arts (carpentry,welding, HVAC,etc.) By the way, why is some Blithering idiot like Eric Young even allowed to post his BLA! BLA! BLA! on here anyway. Stick to the subject at hand, Thai people could care less what you think.
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5. 18-03-2011 09:32
There has been a huge scandal and cover-up at Shrewsbury International School in Bangkok, Thailand. I have attached an article below that provides background material. In summary the Head of the School (Stephen Holroyd) employed a convicted sexual predator of young boys for about 8 years. During this time, the predator had access via his teaching duties of many young students. This predator had escaped from the USA and had remained in Thailand for 20 years using false identification papers. He was aided (perhaps inadvertedly)by those who employed him - namely the Principal of schools where he worked. The deeper you probe this story, it reveals a pathway of cover ups, corruption and violition of common decency. What is equally bad is that nobody in Thailand - the Heads of Schools- have been made accountable. Spread this story and make people like Stephen Holroyd accountable for their actions that has caused huge damage to the lives of many young people.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- A man who everyone thought was dead, including the police, returned to Louisville from Thailand on Tuesday to face 20-year-old sex abuse charges. Even his family hadn't heard from him until last week.
Michael Bond thought the case was long dropped until he tried to get some paperwork in Thailand and found out there was a 20-year-old warrant out for his arrest. Bond is back in Louisville now, but his brother says that's not something a guilty man would do.
For almost 20 years, Bond's whereabouts remained a mystery to his family. Last week, out of nowhere, his brother received a phone call. Bond’s brother said that he quizzed the caller to confirm his identity because he couldn’t believe that Bond was calling after 20 years.
Bond, who fled the country in 1991 after a grand jury indicted him on four counts of sex abuse 19 years ago, was a swim coach and counselor with the Southwest YMCA. According to court documents, Bond would turn the lights off during story time, make the room completely dark, sit behind a child and fondle the child. Bond denied the allegations then and he denies them now.
Bond’s brother says a guilty man would not return after being safely hidden for 20 years and he says Bond was a straight a student in high school and college. He has old newspaper clippings of articles featuring Bond who was awarded a fellowship to help deaf children. Former Mayor Harvey Sloane wrote Bond a commendation letter for completing 1500 volunteer service hours at a local hospital.
His brother maintains his innocence, so why flee the country? Bond’s brother explains "He always said he didn't want to go to court because he didn't want the kids to have to go to court. He was worried about how they'd be treated.” He says Bond spent 23 years helping kids and would never hurt anyone.
Bond’s brother said Bond was questioned about the incidents 20 years ago and was released and months later the indictment were issued. He's confident the judge will throw this case out.
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6. 23-03-2011 13:27
Greetings from Germany:
I am an American citizen, currently residing in
Germany, contemplating to return to Bangkok
to teach History. If anyone is aware of any
available teaching positions in my discipline,
please contact me.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Dennis P. Habern
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7. 07-06-2011 07:05
I WAS A STUDENT OF THAI SIKH INTERNATIONL SCHOOL WAY BACK IN 1994 NOW DAYS WORKING AS AN ASSOCIATE ENGINEER IN PAKISTAN. I WANT TO WISH MY SCHOOL MAY MY SCHOOL PROGRESS ALOT AAMIN INAM UL HAQ MIRZA FROM PAKISTAN