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B15m of ivory seized en route to China
News, Post Reporters, Published on 13/01/2018
» Customs officials have confiscated elephant ivory worth 15 million baht (US$469,200) believed to have been smuggled into Thailand by wildlife traders from Nigeria.
SET urges scrutiny of CSL tender offer
Business, Published on 13/01/2018
» The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) is requiring shareholders of CS Loxinfo Plc (CSL) to study information on the company's tender offer from Advanced Info Service Plc (AIS), as opinions differ between CSL's board of directors and an independent financial adviser (IFA).
England ponder painful performance
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 13/01/2018
» The final moments of the Ashes series could not have been more symbolic in summing up England's plight in what has been a nightmare tour Down Under. While the victorious Australian team gleefully collected all the awards and sprayed champagne at the Sydney Oval, England's captain Joe Root, suffering from a stomach illness, was asleep in the dressing room.
Leave Yingluck be
Oped, Postbag, Published on 13/01/2018
» Re: "Officials 'must capture Yingluck'," (BP, Jan 12). We should all extend our sympathy to the government for having to resist pressure from various sources to pursue extradition proceedings against Yingluck Shinawatra.
PM playing astute game
News, Published on 13/01/2018
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is now taking flak for selling politicians short.
Designer brands shed big bucks to stave off copycats
Oped, Published on 13/01/2018
» Thailand is on a drive to clamp down on black market branded goods with its "Stop Fake Goods" campaign aimed at tourists, which started at the end of last year.
As US exits TPP, Beijing sharpens claws
Oped, Keith Maskus, Published on 13/01/2018
» One of the first acts of US President Donald Trump's administration was to announce that the United States would withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the massive free-trade agreement among 12 countries of East Asia and the Pacific.
Banking on the greater good
Business, Post Reporters, Published on 13/01/2018
» William McChesney Martin Jr, who was chairman of the Federal Reserve for 19 years, famously quipped that his job was to take away the punch bowl just when the party got going. Those words have come to embody the work of a central banker, who at times must implement unpopular measures for the sake of the greater good.
Massage den raid rescues 80 women
News, Post Reporters, Published on 13/01/2018
» Authorities on Friday raided a well-known massage parlour called "Victoria Secret Massage" in Bangkok's Rama 9 area and found 80 women believed to have been forced into prostitution.
Centre gives home and hope to lost youth
News, Dumrongkiat Mala, Published on 13/01/2018
» Today is National Children's Day, a time when many Thai children are taken for a day out somewhere nice by their parents. But for others, those who live on the streets, it is just another sad day that they have to endure alone with nowhere to go and no parents to turn to.