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Bangkok Post 31 May 2018

Fresh warrants were issued Wednesday for the arrest of four people who failed to show up to hear the final ruling in a trial connected to the high-profile Klong Dan wastewater treatment case. One of the warrants was for fugitive politician Vatana Asavahame.

Reuters 30 May 2018 | Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Juarawee Kittisilpa

Thailand is a new dumping ground for scrap electronics from around the world, say police and environmentalists, the latest country to feel the impact of China's crackdown on imports of high-tech trash.

The Nation 30 May 2018

A crackdown on illegal electronic waste dumping and imports expanded to Chon Buri yesterday when police searched Laem Chabang Industrial Estate.

The crackdown began on last Tuesday when National police deputy chief Pol General Wirachai Songmetta led a raid on a waste management plant in Chachoengsao’s Plaeng Yao district, responding to an allegation that hazardous industrial waste had been smuggled from abroad to be burned at the facility, spreading toxins in the area.

The Nation 28 May 2018 | PRATCH RUJIVANAROM

Environmentalists blame govt for causing toxic problem by undermining international agreement.

A NATIONWIDE INSPECTION of electronic waste recycling plants has been launched to battle the smuggling of hazardous e-waste into the country and ensure proper disposal operations.

Bangkok Post 28 May 2018

The Department of Industrial Works (DIW) will inspect seven factories which hold licences to import hazardous substances on suspicion of violating the Hazardous Substance Act and the Basel Convention after several recycling factories were found to be illegally importing and processing electronic waste.

The Nation 26 May 2018 | PRATCH RUJIVANAROM

A MASS PROTEST at Government House is being organised to protest a decision by the government’s Hazardous Substance Committee on Wednesday not to ban reportedly dangerous agricultural chemicals paraquat, glyphosate and chlorpyrifos in Thailand.

Bangkok Post 25 May 2018 | EDITORIAL

A final decision made this week by the Hazardous Substance Committee, refusing to ban the import of paraquat and two other toxic chemicals, is flawed with doubt and controversy.

The Nation 25 May 2018 | Pratch Rujivanarom, Kornkamon Aksorndej

Chinese investors suspected of dumping electronic waste in Thailand

THE TRAIL of an illegal hazardous-waste smuggling network to Thailand by a group of Chinese investors has been exposed, after officers yesterday launched inspections at an electronic parts importing company accused of distributing imported hazardous electronic materials to waste management plants in Chachoengsao.

Bangkok Post 25 May 2018 | Sonthanaporn Inchan

Taiwan boss 'admits to illegal imports'

Police and officials from the Industry Ministry launched a raid Thursday on a factory which allegedly imported hazardous electronic waste from abroad to Lat Krabang industrial estate in Bangkok.

PRESS RELEASE: Basel Action Network 24 May 2018

Chinese e-Waste Traders Move to Thailand Now that Beijing Says "No" to Imported Pollution

May 24, 2018. Seattle, WA. For the last two decades, China was the world's primary e-waste dumping ground. Now, however, as China has closed down its polluting and dangerous backyard recycling facilities and cracked down on waste imports of all kinds, that distinction appears to have migrated to Thailand and perhaps other Southeast Asia and South Asian nations.