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According to the Aids Health Care Foundation ( AHF ) Thailand, teenagers are at risk of contracting HIV ( human immunodeficiency virus ) because unprotected sex is so common.

According to Kritsiam Arayawongchai, director of the AHF Thailand Country Programme, the organization collaborated with 25 healthcare facilities to gather HIV blood tests from 73, 081 people between the ages of 15 and 50 from January 1 to October 31.

According to the findings, new HIV people made up 152 or 2.9 % of the 5,116 youth surveyed between the ages of 15 and 19.

People who fall into the 20 to 24 age group are also thought to be at higher risk. 387, or 2.4 %, of the 15,646 participants in this age group were HIV positive.

In order to increase the awareness of HIV/Aids among 500 high school students at Wat Ratcha-orot School, Mr. Kritsiam spoke at a recent conference titled” To Love is Not Bad, But Do Not Forget to Protect Yourself,” which was co-hosted by the Impulse Bangkok charity group.

According to data from the Disease Control Department, only 80.3 % of children between the ages of 15 and 24 use condoms, but 40 % do so after engaging in sexual activity with their regular partners.

The statistics show how many young people are unaware of using contraceptives to prevent HIV and sexually transmitted diseases. The best and most visible form of protection for young people is provided by contraception. Thailand will not be able to meet its goal of having no new HIV infections by 2030 if they do not defend themselves, according to Mr. Kritsiam.

The principal of the school, Woranan Khankaeng, stated that spreading knowledge of HIV is essential. Teenagers Safe from HIV is a plan that the institution is running. Additionally, it provides assessment and health care services. ” Avoidance is preferable to cure.” To prevent new diseases, he hoped the students would assist in spreading the word about safe sex with their loved ones and friends.

According to Pol Lt Gen Somprasong Yentuam, director of Provincial Police Region 2, authorities will look into a European national’s say that he bribed the authorities with one million ringgit in exchange for his release from paedophilia charges.

Sex Tourists in Thailand, a recent news documentary that was posted on the Deutsche Welle ( DW) Documentary YouTube Channel, is the subject of the investigation. Thailand has since blocked access to the video.

A portion of the picture talked about a case of paedophilia involving Jens Kirch, an 55-year-old European nationwide, in September 2022.

A stranger was detained on September 11, 2022, during a raid on the Cobra Ale Bar nightclub in Pattaya, according to the Khaosod newspaper,the&nbsp.

The table, which is owned by a British man in his 60s and his 42-year-old Thai wife, is then closed. For baby trafficking, both masters were detained. On September 24, 2022, Mr. Kirch was detained in his motel room in Pattaya.

The European suspect claimed that seven days after being charged, he flew back to Frankfurt for another one million baht in cash in addition to his parole, legal fees, and other payments.

He admitted to having intercourse with a slight he brought from the bar to his motel room in the documentary.

He claimed he had to leave the country out of concern that the police did treat him badly. He cited the fact that all accusations were made against him in Thai as an illustration.

Authorities will determine who accepted the pay, according to Pol Lt Gen Somprasong on Sunday. It may take the sensor about seven days to complete.

According to the police, the European suspect’s loan had no conditions, so he was free to leave the country.

A notice from Pattaya Court dated November 7 of last year states that the court granted his request to leave for a business trip.

He had a Thai family and lived in Thailand, which is one of the reasons. He operated a company in Thailand as well. The jury warned him in the letter that he had to record by November 14 of last year or risk losing his bail of 500,000 baht. However, the suspect jumped the loan on November 14, according to the authorities.

He claimed that on December 13 of last year, authorities presented his circumstance to the Pattaya state attorney for legal actions.

In contrast to the Thai media’s assertion that there are no prostitutes in Pattaya, Thanyawat Kamolwongwat, a list MP from the Move Forward Party ( MFP), claimed that the documentary provided factual information on sexual workers.

He claimed that because sex workers are prohibited by law, regulators can use this as an excuse to bribe people.

Legalizing sex work is one option, according to Mr. Thanyawat, and adding the employees would be advantageous as well.

Now, a government plane carrying 83 Thais and one Malaysian national, who were all earlier stranded in Laukkaing, is expected to touch down in Thailand.

The team was carefully evacuated by territory from Myanmar to China, where the relocation trip was to pick them up, according to the Royal Thai Embassy in Yangon yesterday.

At 1.40 am this day, the certified Lion Air flight was scheduled to touch down at Don Mueang aircraft.

They will be transported to another location after undergoing immigration to undergo a National Referral Mechanism ( NRM ) investigation to determine which of them are victims of human trafficking and who are among those responsible for the transnational crime.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( MFA ) expressed gratitude to everyone involved for pooling resources to assist Thai citizens in need abroad. To assist Thai citizens who are still in the besieged city of Laukkaing in Shan State, northeastern Myanmar, which borders China, the Thai consulate in Yangon will maintain its investigation.

In the meantime, Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara, the foreign affairs minister, announced yesterday that the MFA may meet with the military today to discuss the escalating conflict in Myanmar and recommendations for managing a sizable number of refugees along the border.

It is likely that more migrants may be displaced in every way, not just Thailand, if the battle situation in Myanmar worsens. We are thinking of ways to engage the opposing parties in a fair discussion to put an end to the crime, said Mr. Parnpree.

At a cellular cabinet meeting on Monday, 81 development initiatives worth an estimated 7.4 billion ringgit will be put forth.

As part of his observation tour of the top Northeast’s Bueng Kan, Loei, Nong Khai-Nong Bua Lam Phu, and Udon Thani regions, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin will preside over his first mobile cabinet meeting there.

According to sources, the government will be presented with a total of 81 jobs valued at about 7.4 billion baht for attention.

They include suggestions for developing network and shipping, eradicating poverty, and improving agricultural technology.

Phumtham Wechayachai, the deputy prime minister and minister of commerce, added that the cabinet will take into account suggestions made at meetings between condition organizations and the private sector from the five northern provinces.

In order for business owners in Udon Thani to enjoy the same privileges as those in Nong Khai, one plan calls for the expansion of the specific socioeconomic development zone it to include the business house it.

A new logistics park in the Udon Thani professional estate, which will serve as a one-stop service hub at the center of the region’s new free zone for e-commerce, is another proposal.

An region where specific customs regulations are not put into effect is known as a free territory.

According to Mr. Phumtham, the Department of Foreign Trade will be in charge of promoting the project because bringing Nong Khai and Udon Thai into the same exclusive economic growth area would increase cross-border deal with neighboring nations.

Mr. Srettha visited Ban Phu Din Thong on Sunday before the mobile cabinet meeting on Monday. There, he was informed about a powerful new community-based treatment program for drug addicts.

He also said that the program’s drug users may benefit morally from it because it would help them integrate back into society and make a difference for the nation.

On Sunday, Deputy Interior Minister Songsak Thongsri went on his own examination tour of Bueng Kan’s Phon Charoen neighborhood and listened to the concerns of more than 500 visitors.

He promised to bring up their issues at the Monday cellular cabinet meeting after the conversation.

An anti-trafficking activist believes that in order to stop the next pandemic, the outlawed commercial wildlife trade must be eliminated, and even the legal industry should be outlawed.

According to Steve Galster, the founder and CEO of the anti-trafficking organization Freeland, Thailand has previously been a hotspot for wildlife trafficking, both legal and illegal trade.

On the Bangkok Post audio Deeper Dive, he told Dave Kendall,” It has better system than other nations in the region so it can get merchandise from resource to marketplace, from Africa to Indonesia to China.”

Therefore, it is simply generally positioned with a large number of businessmen, particularly those based in Bangkok, who are well-versed in the supply chain and have established them over time. “”

Which species are the targets of trafficking? Previously widespread in Thailand, the animal is now being caught in Indonesia and smuggled across the border andnbsp; with Myanmar and Malaysia.

Ships of useless animals, or simply the weights prized in Chinese medicine, originate in Africa.

But that is by no means all there is.

Mr. Galster remarked,” The listing is actually much.” We have tiger skins and legs in specific. We also have other large cats, such as lions. We have bear bones that are being transported from southwestern Africa. Wild animals are being transported in all the manner from Brazil. “”

Trafficking in animals has three main effects: first, the anguish of the animals as they are put in containers and luggage.

Next, we are experiencing the worst extinction crisis in history with about 100 species of plants and animals going extinct every day and 1 million on the verge, according to a UN report. Many of the trafficked species are thoroughly endangered. The main cause is habit loss brought on by the growth of farming, which is primarily for pet agriculture, but trafficking is another.

Last but not least, there is a real risk that our own species will go extinct. The next pandemic could be much more deadly, and the likelihood that it will be spread through zoonotic means ( from an animal chain ) is high.

According to Mr. Galster, the virus that most likely caused Covid-19 was spread by raccoon dogs from a business market in Wuhan’s damp market.

Those fox dogs would have been traded for money right then. Fox dogs are currently available in Chatuchak business. Therefore, we ought to be worried about everything.

” I firmly believe that a ban on the commercial trade in exotic animals should be the only option. I believe that only a small portion of people worldwide, including Thailand, really profit from that business. There are many people and animals who put their lives in danger because of that deal. “”

After two delays, the Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions at the Supreme Court has rescheduled the reading of its decision on an abuse of power event against criminal former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra for December 26.

The case’s decision was originally scheduled to be read by the judge on November 9, but it was postponed to November 29 due to a panel of judges ‘ inability to attend. Nevertheless, the decision that was supposed to be made on Nov. 29 was once more delayed because one of the nine magistrates had passed away and a new judge had not yet been chosen.

After the new judge took office, the court moved the checking back to December 26 at 1.30 p.m. on Sunday.

Thawil Pliensri, who at the time was the National Security Council’s secretary-general ( NSC), was appointed to the position of prime minister on September 30, 2011, which is when the alleged abuse of power occurred. The then-national police chief, Pol Gen Wichian Potphosri, was chosen by the government to succeed Mr. Thawil at the NSC.

The move order was later revoked as a result of Mr. Thawil’s petition to the Supreme Administrative Court. Additionally, the Constitutional Court unanimously ruled that Yingluck had misused her authority by interfering with the transport of state employees.

The National Anti-Corruption Commission recommended the solicitor common file a complaint against Yingluck in the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions on July 1, 2020, after determining there were grounds to believe she had been dishonest in carrying out her duties.

When Yingluck failed to show up in person for the first reading of the case in November 2022, an arrest warrant was issued for her.

According to Foreign Affairs Minister Parnpree Bahiddha- Nukara, the state is prepared to construct homes along the border to house migrants in the event that fighting in Myanmar intensifies.

The chancellor confirmed the readiness by stating on Sunday that the state was keeping an eye on the situation in Myanmar and urging all parties involved to end hostilities and begin negotiations as soon as possible.

An influx of refugees under the current circumstances is doubtful. However, going forward, if violence worsens, migrants may flee in all directions, not just to Thailand, according to the foreign secretary.

There were no reports of a surrogate warfare in Myanmar, Mr. Parnpree said.

Many entrepreneurs and cargo trucks were stranded in the border town of Myawadee on Saturday as a result of fighting between cultural forces and Burmese government forces. The Mae Sot city of Tak province, which borders Myanmar, was about 10 kilometers from the battleground.

The current situation in Myanmar, according to Lt Gen Prasarn Saengsirirak, chief of the 3rd Army, has yet to have any effect on Thailand, but if migrants cross the border, they will be given humanitarian assistance.

He claimed that Thai territory was being guarded by soldiers, and the ruling Myanmar junta was working to stop the country from being invaded.

According to a statement from the Thai consulate in Yangon, another group of 83 Thais who were formerly stranded in Laukkaing, Myanmar, are scheduled to be flown home from China on Monday night, according to the Foreign Ministry.

From Laukkaing to China, the 83 Thais were safely evacuated by area. They have been given the go-ahead to take a certified Lion Air journey home, which is scheduled to arrive at the Don Mueang airports on Monday at around 1.40 am.

They will be transported to another location to undergo a National Referral Mechanism ( NRM ) checkup to determine which of them are victims of human trafficking and who have been involved in transnational crime after completing immigration at the airport.

The Foreign Ministry expressed gratitude to everyone involved for pooling and nbsp’s efforts to assist Thai citizens in need worldwide. To assist Thai citizens who may still be in Laukkaing, the Thai consulate in Yangon will maintain its investigation.