A Thai mother is preparing to travel to Cambodia to visit her son, who has been arrested in Cambodia since last week.
Mrs. Simaluck Na Nakhon Panom, a teacher, asked her educational institution for leave due to being stressed and weak, Thai News Agency reported.
However, she has been with senior officials from the Thai Foreign Ministry as by Thursday the ministry will coordinate with Cambodia asking it to allow her to go to Cambodia to visit her detained son.
Simaluck's son, Mr. Siwarak Chothipong, 31, worked as engineer at Cambodia Air Traffic Services Co Ltd, was arrested on Nov. 11 according to the arrest warrant of prosecutor of Phnom Penh Municipality Court.
According to a news report by the Khmer language newspaper Rasmei Kampuchea, Siwarak spied through copying the letters of flights of former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in Cambodia and Prime Minister Hun Sen from CATS - Cambodia Air Traffic Services Co Ltd which has duties to control all flights in country...and he sent those reports to Thailand.
Siwarak has been detained in a prison in Phnom Penh, according to the Thai Foreign Ministry, as on Tuesday a Thai envoy was allowed by the Cambodian government to visit him in the prison.
Thailand and Cambodia have downgraded their diplomatic relations due to conflict over an appointment of Thaksin as an economic advisor to Cambodia's government and Prime Minister Hun Sen on Nov. 4.
A day after the appointment of Thaksin, the Cambodian government announced recall of its ambassador to Thailand in a move to respond to the Thai government's recall of its ambassador to Cambodia.
Thaksin was ousted by the military coup in September 2006, in accusation of corruption, and has been kept in exile since then.
He returned to Thailand in February 2008 to face corruption charges, but he later fled into exile again and was convicted in absentia.
Source:cri.cn
