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MEA cracks down on illegal cable cutting
Published on 19/09/2025
» The Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) has issued a warning against illegal activities such as cutting power cables, using stolen electricity for Bitcoin mining and tampering with electricity meters, all of which are considered MEA property.
ChatGPT used by scammers along Thai-Myanmar border
Published on 15/09/2025
» Duncan Okindo says he was lured to Southeast Asia last year by the promise of a customer service job in Thailand. Instead, he ended up spending four months in a scam compound on the lawless Myanmar-Thai border, where he saw first-hand how criminal groups are at scale.
Too caring; he asked for it; crazy buffalo; polite thief
News, Mae Moo, Published on 07/09/2025
» A Khon Kaen man killed his mother after she tried to make him take antidepressant medication, police said.
'War has taken everything': AFP reporter returns home to Khartoum
AFP, Published on 18/04/2025
» KHARTOUM — It had been nearly two years since Agence France-Presse (AFP) journalist Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali set foot in his home in war-torn Khartoum, after the sound of children playing in the street gave way to the fearsome fire of machine guns.
Hope dies in Thailand's broken system
Oped, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 28/02/2025
» A woman, stunned, her husband holding her hand as she walks down the courthouse stairs. Prof Pirongrong Ramasoota, a respected scholar and commissioner of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC), has been sentenced to two years in jail. Her crime? Having a dispute with a corporate giant during her work as a state media regulator.
Bitcoin miners steal electricity in Kanchanaburi
Published on 09/10/2024
» KANCHANABURI - Investigators are trying to track down the perpetrators behind a bitcoin mining operation that consumed millions of baht worth of stolen electricity from 10 locations in Tha Muang district.
Accidents waiting to happen
Published on 12/05/2024
» Bangkok residents were left horrified by two tragic accidents early this month that highlight a lack of safety measures on the part of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) and other agencies.
BMA workers fight to counter spate of manhole cover thefts
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 08/05/2024
» The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) yesterday held a meeting with all relevant agencies to come up with measures to prevent the theft of manhole covers and to boost pedestrian safety along pavements across the city.
Manhole cover theft prevention takes on new urgency
Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 07/05/2024
» The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is looking to come up with urgent measures to prevent manhole cover thefts and improve pedestrian safety along pavements across the city.
Pavements must be safe
Oped, Editorial, Published on 07/05/2024
» About two weeks ago, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) launched a project to upgrade the city's footpaths. The plan is to start the work along 16 routes which bisect the city's busiest areas, before improving some 1,000 kilometres of pavements across the city.