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Guru's Weekly Buzz: March 28-April 3
Guru, Published on 28/03/2025
» Guru By Bangkok Post's pick of the most exciting products, activities, food and travel to indulge in.
Major probe into meat smuggling
Post Reporters, Published on 23/01/2024
» The Department of Special Investigation will examine three-years of meat import records and question agriculture officials in a major probe into meat smuggling.
Probe launched to identify official in B10m bribery clip
News, Post Reporters, Published on 05/12/2023
» An investigation into an audio clip of an official who demanded a 10-million-baht bribe from a pork smuggler is underway to identify the official in question, Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Capt Thamanat Prompow said.
Fighting pork smugglers
News, Editorial, Published on 20/10/2023
» The government's crackdown on pork smugglers is good news, if not overdue. The unbridled smuggling of such a basic food ingredient violates the law, impairs the country's food hygiene standards, and undermines small-scale swine farms.
Pork smugglers facing crackdown
Business, Wichit Chantanusornsiri, Published on 17/10/2023
» Over the past three years, there has been a 20-fold increase in the number of arrests made for the smuggling of pig products.
12 tonnes of smuggled pork cuts seized in South
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 30/11/2022
» SONGKHLA: A large quantity of contraband frozen pork was seized and a suspected smuggler arrested in Muang district on Tuesday, the Customs Region 4 office said.
Galaxy's Edge to wow 'Star Wars' fans
Business, Published on 01/03/2019
» LOS ANGELES: When the Star Wars galaxy is brought to life at Walt Disney Co's US theme parks later this year, fans will not step onto the iconic landscapes of Hoth or Tatooine.
Catching the long end of the stick
Spectrum, Alan Parkhouse, Published on 31/01/2016
» In the 1970s one of Thailand’s most famous exports was the super-strong strain of marijuana known as Thai sticks, and now a five-part documentary and a television series are to be made on the illegal trade and the people who smuggled it to the Western world.
Italian diningby the river
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 12/09/2014
» It took me less than 20 minutes on a busy weekday to drive from my office in Klong Toey for lunch at Viva Aviv Italian restaurant at River City. There's always plenty of parking spaces at River City and the plaza has a decent range of different cuisines on offer. These are just two of the reasons why I've always been perplexed why, despite having a good reputation among international visitors, River City has never been popular among locals, especially when it comes to dining.
Animal instincts
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 04/07/2014
» Shock was the very first feeling I had upon seeing a photo on Facebook informing me of the existence of the Thai Wildlife Hunting Society a few days ago. It was very quickly followed by anger. The Facebook page of this group is full of pictures of wild animal carcasses (monkeys, leopards, wild birds and many more) and the hunters’ weapons.