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Poor meant to suffer
News, Postbag, Published on 21/09/2019
» Re: "Ubon flood saga catches govt napping", (Opinion, Sept 20). The whole problem has many answers. Corruption, low education, but mostly the higher-ups just don't care about poor people and especially those from the North and Northeast even more so.
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Lottery winner arrested for meth giveaways
Gary Boyle, Published on 08/08/2019
» SAMUT SAKHON: A 38-year-old man who won a 12 million baht lottery prize last year has been arrested for welcoming the endless stream of friends to his new house with free methamphetamine pills.
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Eyes wide open
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 08/05/2020
» The literature about modern Thai politics is not abundant, and by this I mean a narrative that grounds its characters in the double-whammy of coup d'etat and street protest that characterised the mid-2000s to mid-2010s. The period, plus a few years earlier when Thaksin Shinawatra rose to power, contains some of the most convulsive and era-defining moments that continue to shape the visible and invisible dimensions of Thai society in the present time, and it's astonishing that not more writers find it a rich wellspring of artistic expression (on the contrary, visual artists and theatre artists seem more responsive to the political currents of the same period).
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Summer storms lash parts of Khon Kaen
News, Published on 13/04/2020
» CRISIS RELIEF: Only 1.6 million of 7.9 million applicants for the state's 5,000-baht cash handouts have passed criteria to receive the monthly financial aid, Lavaron Sangsnit, spokesman for the Finance Ministry, said yesterday.
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Turning lotteries into retirement funds
Oped, Published on 07/06/2023
» Lottery ticket sales in Thailand are a social and economic paradox. While the poor are the biggest buyers, they are also in dire need of savings for their old age. Common sense suggests that poor people should not put their hard-earned money into a game of chance. But there may be a way to bridge this gap and achieve a win-win situation. And not only the poor will benefit from this scheme, but also all lottery buyers.
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Group wants more tickets circulated
News, Post Reporters, Published on 12/09/2020
» The Government Lottery Office (GLO) plans to consider a proposal to screen lottery ticket vendors with a plan to ban state officials from making extra income from reselling tickets.
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Thank you, 'Mali San'
News, Postbag, Published on 24/08/2019
» We Thais owe many, many thanks to "Mali-San" or Ms Megumi Morimoto, 46, a freshman at Kasetsart University's Sakolnakorn campus. As shown by the clip on Facebook by Udomsak Nak-chang-in and on television, she's been blocking motorcyclists from illegally riding their bikes on the sidewalk at Rumsalee intersection, thus protecting pedestrians from being run over. She's done this over 100 times. Although local bikers have beaten her up four times, Thai onlookers have rescued her.
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Odds against new lotto plan
News, Editorial, Published on 05/08/2019
» The Government Lottery Office (GLO) is doing more harm than good in proposing a new type of lottery ticket -- the "12 Thai Zodiac" picture-based draw game.
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Critics slam GLO's new lotto game
News, Post Reporters, Published on 02/08/2019
» Critics on Thursday slammed the Government Lottery Office (GLO) board's decision to launch a new game to compete with the underground lottery, saying it was a poorly thought-out scheme and would lure people deeper into gambling.
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Math expert slams govt lotto chances
News, Post Reporters, Published on 17/04/2023
» One would have to buy the lottery 100 times consecutively -- which amounts to around four years and two months -- just to win the two-digit prize, says a statistics expert at Thammasat University.
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