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Babymonster to visit Bangkok, classic film still streaming online
Life, Post Reporters, Published on 19/03/2025
» Fans of South Korean entertainment will be delighted to learn that Babymonster have included Bangkok as a stopover for their first world tour. Another exciting update is that the neo-noir action-thriller film The Man From Nowhere is still available on iQIYI.
1.3m items pawned in 2024, with gold, mobile phones topping list
Online Reporters, Published on 16/03/2025
» State-run pawnshops lent up more than 20 billion baht to Thai people in 2024 as gold and mobile phones remained the most popular pawned items, according to the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security.
Metrics of harm
Oped, Postbag, Published on 14/05/2024
» Re: "Pro-weed groups put heat on govt", (BP, May 13).
Call to increase government pawnshop lending limits
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 03/02/2024
» The State Enterprise Policy Office (Sepo) is preparing to increase the pawn limit as state-run pawnshops expand and gold prices rise, says director-general Tibordee Wattanakul.
Former pawnshop employee caught for B170m theft
Online Reporters, Published on 04/01/2024
» A former pawnshop employee has been arrested at a border checkpoint in Nong Khai for allegedly stealing gold items pledged by customers at the shop to repledge them, reaping about 170 million baht over the past two years.
Gyeongseong Creature to premiere on Netflix next month
Life, Published on 16/11/2023
» Netflix has recently confirmed the premiere for highly anticipated Gyeongseong Creature, featuring a stellar cast led by Park Seo-jun and Han So-hee. The series will debut in two parts, with the first seven episodes launching next month, and the last three arriving on Jan 5.
Jack Ma returns to public life with professorships
South China Morning Post, Published on 03/05/2023
» Jack Ma, the face of Chinese entrepreneurship and the founder of Alibaba Group Holding, has assumed professorships in at least four schools outside mainland China, as he keeps an arm's length from the business empire he created.
Museums return silver lost to the Nazis
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/04/2023
» It was noon on Nov 10, 1938, when Nazi officers came to the door of William Bergman's Munich home, arrested him for being a Jew and shipped him off to the Dachau concentration camp, about a 30-minute drive away.
Living in La La Land
Oped, Postbag, Published on 25/02/2023
» Re: "Poll seen sparking spending spree", (Business, Feb 23).
Forbidden fruit, out for a spin, hairy pawnshop escapade
News, Mae Moo, Published on 22/01/2023
» A Bangkok man shot a Laos admirer at a karaoke shop after his wife accused him of seeing the woman behind her back, before taking his own life.