"karaoke bar"

TAIPEI -- A fire at a karaoke bar in Taipei Sunday morning has caused five deaths and injured another 49 as of 4:30 pm, the city's fire department said.

The Department of Special Investigation (DSI), the Army and police officers rounded up nine alleged Laotian female sex workers, including one girl aged under 18, from a karaoke bar in Ubon Ratchathani province on Wednesday in a crackdown on underage prostitution and human trafficking, a senior official said.

Four girls under 18 were among 10 females allegedly providing sex for customers of an Udon Thani karaoke bar raided on Thursday night.

Fifty-three Lao females – including three girls under 18 – were rounded up in a raid on a karaoke bar in Narathiwat's Muang district following a tip-off of alleged underage prostitution and human trafficking.

A karaoke bar in Chiang Mai province on Friday refunded a South Korean customer Bt120,000 after having billed him Bt160,000 for a few hours of service on Tuesday.

A 37-year-old Hmong woman, wanted for luring a 16-year-old Laotian girl with a promise of a fried chicken shop’s worker job in Thailand but then taking her into forced prostitution at a karaoke bar in Chiang Rai’s Chiang Khong district, has been taken into custody.

A karaoke bar owner and her assistant were arrested early Friday after allegedly offering paid sex with girls under 18 to undercover officials.

The owner and cashier of a Prachin Buri karaoke bar have been charged with human trafficking after allegedly supplying girls under 18 for prostitution.

The National Legislative Assembly (NLA) agreed yesterday to set up a joint law review committee to unravel the issues in the organic draft bill on the Election Commission (EC) following the agency’s comฌplaint that some clauses were unconstitutional.

KANCHANABURI - A medical test has confirmed that one of the seven sex workers rescued on Wednesday from a karaoke bar in Kanchanaburi's Muang district was a 15-year-old Shan Myanmar girl.