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Learn how Thailand's upcoming General Election on May 14 could impact the country's sex industry legislation.

Campaigners are pushing for the decriminalisation of sex work, which could give sex workers full rights in the formal economy.

Despite the industry's high visibility in Thailand, it remains largely informal and criminal, but sex workers are hopeful for change.



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A man with a criminal record for sex crimes confessed to murdering 17-year-old Woramet “Ben” Taota, a Thai-British teenager, and is suspected of concealing the corpse.

During the re-enactment of the crime, the victim's relative attacked the accused with a wooden stick. The victim's girlfriend, 16-year-old Ping Pong, is still missing, and the accused has not revealed any information about her whereabouts.

The police are searching the area with sniffer dogs. The suspected killer is connected to drug dealing in the area, and the police have not ruled out the possibility that the murder was a drug deal gone wrong.