Thailand

Exclusive: suspected Washington gunman Aaron Alexis was “friendless” and “often complained of racial discrimination”, his former boss tells Channel 4 News.

Thailand’s media is taking up the search for answers following an exclusive Channel 4 News report on the trafficking of Burmese refugees.

Thai authorities arrest and charge a suspected human trafficker, accused of masterminding the sale of hundreds of Burmese migrants into slavery aboard fishing boats.

Beaten, imprisoned and sold into slavery – Channel 4 News reveals the fate of Burma’s Muslim Rohingya refugees, who flee conflict only to end up in the clutches of brutal human traffickers.

As Thailand struggles with an influx of Rohingya Muslims from Burma, John Sparks visits a camp where conditions are desperately over-crowded, with barely room to sit.

Thousands of Muslim refugees who have fled religious persection in Burma have been locked up in overcrowded caged cells in detention centres in Thailand.

Channel 4 News gains access to a Thai detention centre where thousands of Muslim refugees who have fled religious persecution in Burma are being forced to live in squalid conditions.

Life as a teacher in southern Thailand is becoming increasingly perilous. Asia Correspondent John Sparks has spent time with some of the brave women risking their lives.

Peter Root and Mary Thompson were killed by a pick-up truck. The couple, both 34 years old, had already cycled through the Middle East, Central Asia and China on their round-the-world trip.

Sixteen militants are killed by marines while mounting an attack on a military base in southern Thailand.

Thailand’s south sees its worst violence for years after 16 gunmen are shot dead trying to attack a Thai military base in an area of the country that has experienced violence by Muslim insurgents.

The United Nations has called them ‘one of the most persecuted minorities in the world’ – Burma’s Rohingya people. The stateless, Muslim community live among the majority Buddhists in Rakhine state. Flimsy wooden boats packed with people desperate to flee are now arriving off the coast of Thailand every day. But instead of giving temporary…

Thousands of Burmese people are trying to flee persecution to neighbouring Thailand, but with an unresponsive result. Our Asia correspondent, John Sparks, reports.

The family of a British tourist who was shot in the crossfire of a gang fight in Thailand, have told of their devastation at his death.

A 22-year old British man has been shot dead at a new year’s eve party on the Thai island of Koh Phangan – it is thought Stephen Ashton was caught in the crossfire between two rival gangs.