News Forum - Humpbacked beggar illegally earning over 100,000 baht a month sent back to Cambodia

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A compassionate Thai man says he feels deceived after he tried to help a disabled Cambodian beggar get treatment only to discover he earned over 100,000 baht per month illegally. Kannarat “Gun” Pongpaiboonwet, aka Gun Jom Palang, last week announced on Facebook that he would contact the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security (M-Society) to help the Cambodian man get treatment after seeing a video of him on Thai social media walking doubled over in a market in Chon Buri province. Watch the video here. Many people wanted to donate and help him get proper treatment after Gun highlighted […]

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[kalyan]

sometimes i use to see a lady in future park , rangsit has a pre printed card who will come and distribute at the basement food area on the people who are sitting for food.

how about them ?  How the rule works for them ?

[joseph]

What about the land mine "victims". During the 90's TV adds begged donations for the Cambodian land mine victims. They showed clips of children missing limbs. Since there weren't enough "victims" they had to create more. Orphans from Cambodia had arms and legs amputated and were distributed daily to various tourist sites and around embassies. One of the sites where the children were mutilated was outside Ayutthaya. A young girl escaped and wandered to the train station. Because of her condition and only speaking Khmer it was assumed she was a mental case. It took authorities too long to process. By the time she was able to lead them to the site it was abandoned. However, evidence remained.