Category Archives: News on Thai CDC
- 22-9-2016
The Thai Town Marketplace Breaks Ground Launching the Thai Community Development Center’s Latest $2.95 Million Community Enhancement Endeavor
On Thursday, September 22nd, the Thai Community Development Center (Thai CDC) celebrated a ten year victory at the ground breaking of the Thai Town Marketplace (TTMP) located at 5448 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027. The marketplace is Thai CDC’s current endeavor towards improving Thai Town, providing jobs for the economically disadvantaged and offering the Continue Reading
- 7-7-2016
Wage Standards for the City of Los Angeles
Representatives from the Thai Community Development Center (Thai CDC), Chinatown Service Center (CSC), Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA), and Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC) came together to announce the outreach plan for the new minimum wage rollout in the City of Los Angeles. Starting July 1, 2016, the new minimum wage for the City Continue Reading
- 28-6-2016
The Consul General Tanee Sangrat Pays Thai CDC a Visit
On Tuesday, June 28th, the new Consul General of Thailand, the Honorable Mr. Tanee Sangrat, paid a visit and his respects to the Thai Community Development Center (Thai CDC) to learn more about the history, mission, and programs and services of Thai CDC. Thai CDC was so honored and privileged to have been able to Continue Reading
- 11-5-2016
National Business Alliance Names 36 Leaders Transforming Local Economies
Chanchanit Martorell of Thai Community Development Center Awarded Local Economy Fellowship, Joins North American Leadership Network Thirty-six leaders representing innovative community and economic development solutions in 29 U.S. and Canadian cities have been selected to the Business Alliance for Local Living Economy’s (BALLE) fourth cohort of Local Economy Fellows. These are leaders with fierce love Continue Reading
- 7-2-2016
Thai CDC Assisting Survivors of the Global Horizons Human Trafficking Case
[embedplusvideo height=”337″ width=”600″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1MIu4fm” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/fuf2EnY2Xjc?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=fuf2EnY2Xjc&width=600&height=337&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=” id=”ep8823″ /] Thai CDC’s very own Directing Attorney, Panida Rzonca is shown in this Thai news clip assisting victims from the Global Horizons case receive settlement funds from the US EEOC settlement. Thai CDC was contracted by the EEOC to provide claims processing services including delivering funds to Continue Reading
- 4-2-2016
Visit from Ambassador Madina Jarbussynova of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
On February 4, 2016, Thai CDC Executive Director, Chanchanit Martorell, and other representatives from community partner organizations in Los Angeles, met with Ambassador Madina Jarbussynova, Special Representative and Co-ordinator for Counter Trafficking in Human Beings (SR) of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) who is conducting an official country visit to United Continue Reading
- 13-1-2016
Asian Pacific Policy & Planning Council (A3PCON) Asian Pacific Islander (API) Human Trafficking Task Force Hosts a Press Conference
January 13th, 2016 at 10:30 am at the Thai Community Development Center Speakers Include: Aniwat Khadphab, API Survivor Chancee Martorell, Executive Director, Thai Community Development Center Connie Chung Joe, Executive Director, Korean American Family Services Captain Merrill Ladenheim, LA Sheriff’s Department Human Trafficking Bureau The Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council (A3PCON), a coalition of Continue Reading
- 4-1-2016
Thai Town in Los Angeles, A Home Away from Home for Thais
Thai Town was officially designated by the Los Angeles City Council in 1999 as a way to pay respect to Thais living in L.A. and Thai culture in general. NBT World correspondent Joel Gershon was in Thai Town in Los Angeles recently and spoke to a community organizer who helped make Thai Town a Continue Reading
- 23-9-2015
Thai Community Development Center’s Executive Director and a Thai Trafficking Survivor Invited to President Obama and First Lady Arrival Ceremony for His Holiness Pope Francis Holy See at the White House
Washington, D.C. – The Thai Community Development Center’s Executive Director, Chanchanit Martorell and a Thai trafficking survivor from the El Monte Thai Garment Slavery Case, Rotchana Sussman, were invited by the White House to attend the Arrival Ceremony for His Holiness Pope Francis Holy See held by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama Continue Reading
- 31-8-2015
Road to Freedom: A Journey of Resilience and Hope ~ A Month of Reflection and Forging a Vision for the Future
Dear Friends and Colleagues, We want to thank you for your support, contributions, and participation in the Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the El Monte Thai Garment Slavery Case, “The Road to Freedom: a Journey of Resilience and Hope”. Without the work that you do and your contributions, our events would not have been Continue Reading