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The dark underworld of online fraud
News, Published on 07/12/2023
» The Chinese film No More Bets, which sheds light on the intricacies of overseas online fraud, has emerged as a blockbuster success, dominating the big screen and box office earnings.
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What Wagner's revolt means to Putin's war
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 26/06/2023
» The Don is a much bigger river than the Rubicon, but Yevgeny Prigozhin and his army crossed it anyway on Friday.
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The cyber whodunnit and the global blame game
News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 21/12/2017
» The US government has officially attributed to North Korea the WannaCry ransomware attack, which encrypted hundreds of thousands of computer drives around the world in May, 2017. And yet as with a series of other highly public cyberattack attributions, little evidence for the claim was made public. It's time for the cybersecurity world to follow the advice of the Rand Corporation and set up an unbiased international consortium that would seek to attribute attacks based on a common set of rules.
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Taxi Timeline
Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 11/06/2021
» Taxi service in Thailand is about to enter a new drive after the Cabinet recently approved a draft regulation to allow the use of private cars for transport apps. The draft by the Ministry of Transport is expected to be put to use this month or within July. When enacted, vehicles with up to seven seats that are registered as personal cars can double as taxis via the apps.
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The real reason Grab is winning: service
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 01/07/2019
» Taxi and motorcycle taxi drivers in the capital were once again up in arms last week when they heard that their arch-rival Grab Thailand, the local operating arm of the Singapore-based start-up hailing service app, might be getting the green light by the government to operate legally.
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Phuket must face demons, or end is nigh
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 19/07/2018
» My condolences to the families of the 47 Chinese holidaymakers who were killed when the diving boat they were on sank in the waters off Phuket in a fierce storm on July 5. It's a massive loss.
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Pokemon goes on run from state capture
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 13/08/2016
» No, they will not ban Pokemon Go, though it's not hard to tell how tempting that idea must be in the post-referendum landscape where peace, order and national security have been constitutionally enshrined.
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Don't rush into high-speed
News, Editorial, Published on 31/03/2016
» The government's decision to go it alone in investing in the Thai-Chinese high-speed train project, albeit a scaled-down version from Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima covering a distance of 250km, came out of the blue. The decision followed a meeting last week between Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang in Hainan.
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RTAF needs to slim down
News, Editorial, Published on 01/03/2021
» The Royal Thai Armed Forces' (RTAF) decision to cut back on the number of generals in its ranks is a good move that will make it more efficient. However, no matter how good a plan is, it won't succeed without serious execution.
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Fair cop, guv - and here's your reward
News, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 03/09/2015
» Every time I see police displaying bundles of amphetamines seized from drug dealers in a crackdown, I always ask myself if the pills -- neatly packed in black garbage bags -- are really amphetamines. Could they be just painkillers? And why do the police have to show those seized items?
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