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Six Taiwanese arrested for call scam
Online Reporters, Published on 21/01/2018
» Tourist police arrested six Taiwanese men in Bangkok and Samut Prakan province for allegedly stealing money from victims of a call scam.
Green but greying
Asia focus, Erich Parpart, Published on 22/01/2018
» Visit a rice farm anywhere in Asia these days and you will see a life that has hardly changed in decades. Transplanting paddy sprouts into muddy soil, swatting itch-inducing stalks with a sharp sickle and lifting heavy rice sacks into a rickety truck are all part of the backbreaking routine.
Malaysians charged with B17m gambling con
Online Reporters, Published on 22/01/2018
» Four Malaysian men have been arrested in Bangkok’s Din Daeng area for allegedly cheating a wealthy Thai woman out of 17 million baht by showing an interest in buying her resort, then duping her into gambling with them.
Industry gets new trawler rules boost
News, Post Reporters, Published on 23/01/2018
» The government has promised fishing operators new measures to sustain their businesses including allowing them to take over unused trawlers that have been properly registered or sell off their unregistered fishing boats.
Crypto markets aren't all the same
News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 23/01/2018
» There's a compelling reason to consider what's going on with cryptocurrencies a purely speculative boom-and-bust roller-coaster: Over a three-month period, the prices of all the top coins and tokens are rather strongly correlated, going up and down in unison. What does that make them if not the 21st-century incarnation of tulip bulbs?
TBMA confirms foreign inflows for speculation
Business, Nuntawun Polkuamdee, Published on 24/01/2018
» Year-to-date foreign fund inflows to the Thai bond market amount to 79 billion baht, with half the sum investing in short-term bonds to speculate on baht appreciation, says the Thai Bond Market Association (TBMA).
Bitcoin is a means of payment, just not yet for you
News, Elaine Ou, Published on 24/01/2018
» Critics of Bitcoin often argue that it's useless as a means of payment, one of the key elements of any successful currency. That's not quite right, and likely to become less so.
Cape Town may soon run out of water
News, Mihir Sharma, Published on 25/01/2018
» April 22, Earth Day, might have a bit of extra significance this year. It might be the day that, for the first time, a great world city runs out of water.
Feed maker Thai Luxe continues drift to renewable power
Business, Yuthana Praiwan, Published on 25/01/2018
» SET-listed animal feed producer and trader Thai Luxe Enterprises Plc has announced a 5-billion-baht capital spending budget for 2018-19 as the company looks to expand its renewable energy business in Japan.
Police issue poster of most-wanted car thieves
News, Post Reporters, Published on 25/01/2018
» The Metropolitan Police Bureau has released a list of the 60 most wanted car and motorcycle thieves with cash rewards of 1.4 million baht offered to people who come forward with information leading to their arrest.