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Dragons and blessings at lucky temple
News, Published on 10/02/2024
» The Year of the Dragon begins on Saturday, the start of the Lunar New Year, which is especially meaningful for Thais with Chinese ancestry.
10 unmissable places for Chinese tourists celebrating Lunar New Year
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 10/02/2024
» 1. Chinatown at Yaowarat Road, Bangkok
Rethink after shady street lamp buys
News, Post Reporters, Published on 01/07/2023
» A fresh effort is under way to ensure accountability and transparency in any new local administrative organisation procurement projects and installation of so-called sculptural street lights.
NACC speeds up probe into expensive street lamp posts
News, Post Reporters, Published on 01/02/2022
» The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) is speeding up its probe into alleged irregularities in the procurement of street lamp posts in tambon Racha Thewa in Samut Prakan, which came under fire last year for being unnecessarily expensive.
Shady street lamp deal probed
News, Post Reporters, Published on 03/07/2021
» The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has launched an investigation into alleged irregularities involving lamp post procurements by several local officials in Samut Prakan.
Hat Yai probes ‘overpriced’ street lamps
Published on 12/06/2021
» SONGKHLA: Officials in Hat Yai will investigate whether the municipality overpaid for fancy street lamps — the third such allegation made against a local administration in Thailand this month.
Tambon accused of graft in purchase of kinnaree-topped street lights
Sutthiwit Chayutworakan, Published on 10/06/2021
» SAMUT PRAKAN: A local administrative organisation has been accused of overpaying for more than 6,000 solar-powered street lamps topped with mythical kinnaree figures.
Bangkok protesters brace for rain
Published on 18/09/2020
» Pro-democracy protesters may have to defy rain this weekend, as the capital is an expected target of tropical storm Noul, which already drenched some northeastern provinces on Friday.
Secret North Korean workers in China
Associated Press, Published on 05/10/2017
» HUNCHUN, China: The workers wake up each morning on metal bunk beds in fluorescent-lit Chinese dormitories, North Koreans outsourced by their government to process seafood that ends up in stores and homes in the US and other countries.
Men and their mistresses
Spectrum, Published on 24/09/2017
» After Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's suggestion of gik laws banning infidelity made headlines, he claimed he had been joking because "housewives in the audience looked sleepy so I was threatening their husbands".