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Thaksin touts golden visa, higher travel fees to boost Thailand
Bloomberg News, Published on 18/07/2025
» Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra suggested Thailand create a golden visa scheme for wealthy foreigners to become long-term residents and called on Airports of Thailand Plc (AOT) to hike passenger service fees to boost the sluggish economy.
Love, lust and lost funds
News, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 18/07/2025
» A growing scandal involving senior Buddhist monks and a woman dubbed "Sika Golf" has gripped Thailand in recent weeks. The case centres on Wilawan Emsawat, a 35-year-old woman accused of forging intimate relationships with high-ranking monks and allegedly using them for financial gain, sparking a wide-ranging police investigation and multiple arrests.
Taking stock of nation's climate finance
Oped, Sarinee Achavanuntakul, Published on 17/07/2025
» If the ravages of extreme weather worldwide were not enough to convince anyone of the need to urgently address and adapt to climate change, consider a sobering fact delivered by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Police arrest woman at centre of monk sex scandal
Gary Boyle, Published on 16/07/2025
» Police have arrested the woman at the centre of a sex scandal involving numerous senior monks.
Police arrest woman at centre of monk sex scandal
Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 15/07/2025
» NONTHABURI: Police have arrested the woman at the centre of a sex scandal involving numerous senior monks on charges of enabling malfeasance, laundering money and receiving stolen goods.
Thailand's Land Bridge falls flat
Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 13/07/2025
» As Thailand's political future hangs in the balance, so too does one of the country's most ambitious mega-infrastructure proposals: the Land Bridge Project, envisioned as a transformative logistics corridor linking the Gulf of Thailand with the Andaman Sea.
Ex-monk caught up in sex scandal says he left temple nearly ‘empty-handed’
Published on 12/07/2025
» A former abbot implicated in the “Sika Golf” sex scandal has handed over key financial documents to the acting abbot of his former temple in Saraburi, saying he left the monastery with “almost nothing” to dispel suspicions that he might have fled with temple funds.
Dear DOGE, it's high time to tear down those dams!
News, Published on 12/07/2025
» No big government infrastructure project made an imprint on the landscape and economy of the West more than the US Bureau of Reclamation's 20th century dam-building spree, which peppered 490 dams across the country, created an agricultural civilisation dependent on federal hydrology civil engineering, and brought about a welter of environmental difficulties after drying up dozens of once-healthy rivers.
Your horoscope for July 11-17
Guru, Chaiyospol Hemwijit, Published on 11/07/2025
» Your spot-on horoscope for work, money and relationship from Guru by the Bangkok Post's famously accurate fortune teller. Let's see how you will fare this week and beyond.
Teens rescued from Discord porn group
News, Post Reporters, Published on 11/07/2025
» A man has been arrested for allegedly managing a group on a popular app that livestreamed underage girls in the nude for profit, in a high-profile crackdown in Roi Et province supervised by the Interior Ministry.