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Thaksin again lures foreigners with promise to buy Thai land outright
Pattaya Mail
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July 18, 2025
Thaksin senses an easy way for Thailand to make billions from ultra-rich foreigners. Ex premier Thaksin Shinawatra is once again floating that a new Golden Visa would bring the right for foreigners to own outright freehold land and property in...
Help! My Sister-in-Law Insists on Torturing Us at Our Dinner Parties With Her “Offerings.”
Slate Magazine
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July 18, 2025
This is Prudie Phones a Friend, a feature where Jenée Desmond-Harris calls a few experts for their advice to a letter writer. Submit questions to Prudence here. Dear Prudence, My sister-in-law, “Amelia,” is a lovely woman who lives on a very tight...
DIMOO Named "Special Friend of Thailand-China Golden Jubilee"
Antara
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July 18, 2025
Bangkok (ANTARA/PRNewswire)- On June 30, during a China-Thailand government reception, Mr. Piyapak Sricharoen, Director-General of the Department of East Asian Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Thailand, and Ms. Chang Yumeng,...
As shopping centres in Bangkok and KL morph into lifestyle destinations, can Singapore's malls keep up?
Channel News Asia
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July 18, 2025
WHAT'S AT STAKE FOR SINGAPORE'S RETAIL SECTOR Even as these efforts to refresh Singapore's retail scene are being carried out, deeper macroeconomic challenges continue to weigh on the sector, experts said. Assoc Prof Wei from SUSS said that while...
Crypto payments for Thailand tourists: US, UAE, Japan and other countries that let you pay with Bitcoin, Ether, more
Mint
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July 18, 2025
Financial regulators in Thailand are mulling to let foreign tourists exchange cryptocurrency in exchange of Thai Baht to make purchases across the country, in a move to enhance its tourism sector. In a recently proposed initiative, the country...
40 arrested after drug test in Bangkok bar
Bangkok Post
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July 18, 2025
PUBLISHED : 18 Jul 2025 at 15:41 An arrest of a Vietnamese drug dealer at an entertainment venue in Bangkok early Friday led to the further detention of 40 other people, who also tested positive for drugs. The mass arrests were made after police...
Prime Minister establishes working groups to speed up public investment disbursement
Vietnam News Agency
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HÀ NỘI — Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính has established eight working groups to remove difficulties related to production, business, infrastructure construction, and imports and exports, as well as promote growth and accelerate disbursement of...
Thailand parliament urged to amend ‘lèse majesté’ law in upcoming vote
JURIST
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July 15, 2025
Amnesty International urged Thailand’s House of Representatives on Tuesday to grant amnesty to individuals accused and detained solely for political activism, including offenses related to the lèse majesté law. This appeal comes ahead of the...
Is It Legal? How U.S. Citizens Can Reset Their Identity Without Breaking the Law
Justice News Flash
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July 18, 2025
A Complete 2025 Guide to Legal Identity Change, Digital Erasure, and Second Citizenship VANCOUVER, British Columbia — At a time when personal data is bought, sold, and analyzed by thousands of organizations globally, a growing number of U.S....
Thai officials restore Ministry of Labor website after hack, defacement
The Record
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July 17, 2025
The website for Thailand’s Ministry of Labor has been restored after hackers defaced the site and allegedly stole government data. Boonsong Tapchaiyut, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Labor, confirmed the incident on Thursday and ordered...
Cambodian government arrests more than 1,000 suspects in cybercrime raids
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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July 18, 2025
A crackdown by Cambodian authorities on cybercrime operations has resulted in the arrests of more than 1,000 suspects in the past week. The South-East Asian country's Prime Minister Hun Manet issued the order authorising state action for...
Michael Shane Caola: Perth man found facedown in pool of blood in Thailand apartment
The West Australian
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July 18, 2025
A man from Perth has been found dead in an apartment in Thailand where he was found facedown in a pool of blood. The 54-year-old is believed to be Michael Shane Caola and was found on the seventh floor of the Grand Shivalay apartment in the...
Two 15-year-old boys rescued from Bangkok sex trafficker
Bangkok Post
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July 18, 2025
The suspect, identified only as Chaiyaporn, was apprehended in a hotel room in Bangkok’s Pom Prap Sattru Phai district, the Children and Women Protection Sub-division said on Thursday. According to investigators, Mr Chaiyaporn had been using the...
Aussie tourist found facedown in a pool of blood in apartment in Thailand
Daily Mail
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July 18, 2025
By NICK WILSON FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA Published: 04:41 EDT, 18 July 2025 | Updated: 05:07 EDT, 18 July 2025 An Australian man has been found dead in an apartment in Thailand, just hours after the body of a Swedish man was also discovered in the...
Thai woman 'filmed secret sex with Buddhist monks in blackmail plot that made her MILLIONS so she could maintain luxury lifestyle after politician husband left her... because she was unfaithful'
Daily Mail
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July 17, 2025
A woman has been charged with extortion in Thailand after allegedly recording herself having sex with Buddhist monks and then demanding money to support her lifestyle. Wilawan Emsawat, 35, known as Sika Golf, is accused of blackmailing senior...
Thailand to offer ‘no tariffs on 90% of US goods’
Bangkok Post
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July 17, 2025
Adviser to trade negotiators believes final rate for Thai goods will be 18-20% PUBLISHED : 17 Jul 2025 at 17:31 Thailand is ready to offer scrapping tariffs on 90% of US goods, up from 60% in an earlier proposal, in a bid to avert a punishing 36%...
Good news for travellers, this Asian country is giving away free flights to international tourists, not Thailand, Vietnam, China, India, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, it is...
DNA India
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July 18, 2025
Most travellers won’t need to pay any extra stopover charges, unless they’re coming from North America or China and stay more than 24 hours in their arrival city. If you’re planning a trip to Japan and want to explore more than just Tokyo, there’s...
Myanmar military recaptures strategic town from rebels after a year, government says
The Asahi Shimbun
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BANGKOK--Myanmar ’s military has recaptured a strategic gateway town from rebel forces after nearly a year, state-media reported Thursday, marking a rare turnaround in the country’s northeast, where an alliance of ethnic militias seized a large...
Thai army probing landmine incident on border
Bangkok Post
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July 17, 2025
Officials want to know when Russian-made mine was planted after Thai soldier loses foot PUBLISHED : 17 Jul 2025 at 18:12 UPDATED : 17 Jul 2025 at 18:21 The Thai army is trying to find out whether a landmine that injured three Thai soldiers — one...
Misbehaving monks: Sex scandal shakes Thailand's Buddhist faithful
The New Indian Express
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'Splurging attitude' Theravada Buddhism has been the spiritual backbone of Thai identity for more than two millennia, and still shapes national laws banning alcohol on religious holidays and protecting sacred objects. Thai men are traditionally...