Category Archives: News on Thai Community
- 23-5-2013
Los Angeles City Councilman Tom LaBonge Presents Thai Airways with a certificate to commemorate the historic trip to Bangkok where Los Angeles and Bangkok will become Friendship Cities.
Los Angeles Councilman Tom Labonge and members of his delegation , Thai Community Development Center and the Royal Thai Consulate General will make a historic trip to Bangkok to celebrate the unity and friendship that exists between Los Angeles and Bangkok. The bond between the two cities has existed for decades and now that bond Continue Reading
- 28-4-2013
Thai CDC in Conjunction with Esperanza Community Housing Corporation Celebrated Thai Culture and New Year with an Elephant Parade.
The Thai Community Development Center successfully concluded its thirtieth Entrepreneurship Training Program Course that is designed to train future entrepreneurs on how to become prosperous business owners in the United States. Twenty-eight attendees traveled from all over Southern California to learn how to navigate the myriad of steps needed to start a business in the Continue Reading
- 7-4-2013
Unveiling of the Kinarra
April 7th, 2013 marks a monumental day as the Thai Community Development Center unveils the first pair of Kinarra Lamp Post Monuments on Hollywood and Hobart Blvds. The almost five foot tall statues erected to a 17 foot tall lamppost arrived in Los Angeles on March 5th. These mythical figures represent the latest effort by Continue Reading
- 22-3-2013
Thai CDC Breaks Ground! The Kinarra Are Landing Soon!
Friday, March 22, 2013 marked a monumental day as the Thai Community Development Center (Thai CDC) broke ground to install the first pair of Kinarra Lamp Post Monuments on Hollywood and Hobart Blvds. The almost five foot tall statutes erected to a 17 foot tall lamp post that arrived in Los Angeles on March 5th Continue Reading
- 20-2-2013
City of LA Reinstitutes the Office of Immigrant Affairs
LA’s City Council President and candidate for Mayor, Eric Garcetti, introduced a motion to re-establish an Office of Immigrant Affairs. The Office was first established in 2004 with the purpose of connecting the immigrant population with city services. Unfortunately because of shifting policy priorities at City Hall, the Office was dismantled. With the recent support Continue Reading
- 29-1-2013
Thai Community Senior Citizen Has Her Say at the Candidates’ Forum for Los Angeles Council District 13
On January 29th 2013, at the Blessed Sacrament Church, 84 year old Pattarin Thongchua delivered a speech to hundreds of people. Among those hundreds, 12 are candidates running for the position of councilmember in Council District 13. On that stage, Pattarin flexed the influence that an individual, a Thai American, can have on their elected Continue Reading
- 13-8-2012
Farmworkers’ Letter to Department of Justice
[fb_button] August 13, 2012 Eric Holder, Attorney General U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001 Re: Dismissal of Global Horizons Case Dear Attorney General Holder: We are the Thai farm workers who were victims of labor trafficking in the Global Horizons Manpower Case. It was not easy for us to come Continue Reading
- 13-8-2007
Temple Tradition Bows to Neighbors’ Pressure
August 13, 2007|Deborah Schoch | Times Staff Writer Rumors were sweeping the Los Angeles food blogging world. “Wat Thai Temple — food court closing?” asked the entry on Chowhound.com. “Noooo…. ” another writer moaned minutes later. Ethnic food aficionados are aghast at the prospect of a future without such delicacies as hot green papaya salad, Continue Reading
- 28-10-1999
City Council Designates Area as ‘Thai Town’
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA / A news summary | The Local Review / DEVELOPMENTS IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY October 28, 1999 HOLLYWOOD — The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to designate an area east of Hollywood as “Thai Town,” the first official Thai town in the nation. The designation was proposed by Councilwoman Jackie Goldberg, Continue Reading
- 3-8-1995
Workers Held in Near-Slavery, Officials Say
August 03, 1995|GEORGE WHITE | TIMES STAFF WRITER State and federal agents raided a garment factory in El Monte early Wednesday that allegedly held dozens of Thai immigrants in virtual slavery behind barbed wire for years, forcing them to labor in servitude to supposedly pay off creditors. The pre-dawn raid by a multi-agency team headed Continue Reading