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Officials set to fight lottery scam
Published on 03/06/2015
» The Government Lottery Office will deploy 10 swift response teams to keep lottery prices in check after the GLO board ordered vendors to sell a pair of tickets at the official face value of 80 baht.
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Disgruntled lottery losers not happy with Yingluck
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 04/02/2013
» For Thai lottery addicts, life is a continual search for lucky numbers. Some are now grumbling that Prime Minister Yingluck is making their lives difficult by fixing the results to match her license plate numbers.
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Unsold lottery tickets make shop owner rich
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 23/11/2012
» For one lottery shop owner, it was not the tickets she sold that made her rich. It was the tickets she didn't sell.
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Monk wins big in lottery
Jon Fernquest, Published on 27/11/2012
» Lottery seller gang demands part of winnings to keep it a secret & "pushes him towards a woman" finally monk seeks help from media & government.
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Tears for fears, Pinit's brave transformation, lottery win 'joke' turns sour
News, Mae Moo, Published on 22/04/2018
» The grandmother of a conscript who burst into tears at an army conscription draw as he contemplated the plight of his family if he was forced to serve, has urged him to put aside his fears.
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GLO warns '5 Tigers' to shape up
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 25/05/2015
» The newly-appointed military chairman of the Government Lottery Office's board has threatened to take extreme measures if the retail price of lottery tickets for the June 16 draw still exceeds 80 baht per pair.
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Suffocated by the synthetic
Brunch, Andrew Biggs, Published on 07/10/2018
» I am sitting in a diner in the southern town of Surat Thani, staring down at three toothpicks.
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Laos turns up a winner
Muse, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 29/04/2017
» Stepping off of the red carpet, the gorgeous Lao star Vilouna Phetmany -- known by her stage name Tot Lina -- began to greet us in perfect Thai. On Wednesday, she attended the gala opening of the Bangkok Asean Film Festival, shining among the regional superstars. Tomorrow the festival will screen the film she stars in, a new-wave Lao horror called Nong Hak, before it goes into general release on May 18.
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Lao cinema hits the jackpot
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 19/05/2017
» In this Lao film, a nearly-blind woman is visited by ghosts that come to tell her winning lottery numbers. Her young caretaker, a girl from the countryside, takes advantage of her mistress' impairment and cashes in on the phantoms' fortunetelling, scoring win after win. On paper, it all sounds preposterous. Ghosts that give out lotto jackpots? How superstitious! How Southeast Asia! But don't be mistaken: you should go and watch Nong Hak (Dearest Sister), a well-made Lao production that spins the supernatural premise into class critique and psychological horror, ripe with atmospheric suspense. In fact, this is simply a better film in terms of script and technical standards than many Thai flicks released each year.
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Army reshuffle sees loyalists appointed
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 03/09/2018
» The annual military reshuffle has seen the appointment of assistant army chief Gen Apirat Kongsompong as the new army chief -- a position perceived to be critical to smoothing the way for Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to reclaim his premiership and stay on in power after the next election.
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