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iCon may lose licence over fraud claims
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 20/11/2024
» The Office of the Consumer Protection Board (OCPB) is considering revoking the licence of scandal-hit The iCon Group, Prime Minister's Office Minister Jiraporn Sindhuprai said.
DSI to probe Piya's iCon claim
News, Post Reporters, Published on 31/10/2024
» The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) will summon Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) spokesman Pol Lt Gen Piya Tawichai to give a statement regarding his allegations linking The iCon Group -- currently under investigation for fraud -- to the ruling Pheu Thai Party.
Driving out the gangs
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 01/08/2023
» The Royal Thai Police (RTP) will now look into five major biker gangs based in the country after arresting the leader, an Austrian national, and some members of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club in Pattaya on July 21.
The soggy socks and sandbags month
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 02/10/2022
» Judging from the pervading sense of dampness experienced during the past week we are entering the annual soggy socks season so beloved by the populace. The meteorological office has been getting into the spirit of things with forecasts of heavy rains brought by what began as Typhoon Noru.
Job vacancy: Must be good at promises
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 15/05/2022
» This time next week the good citizens of Bangkok will be choosing the person daft enough to want to be the next governor of the angelic metropolis known as Krungthep. Amazingly there are 31 otherwise perfectly sensible, intelligent people prepared to take on this thankless task.
Governor poll will be a contest of imagination
News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 21/12/2021
» Imagination is more important than knowledge, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein famously once said. The Bangkok gubernatorial election, expected to be held early next year but has not been officially scheduled, looks set to be a fascinating contest of imagination.
Tokyo finally reaches the finishing line
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 08/08/2021
» It is no secret that the build-up to the Tokyo Olympics was not exactly plain sailing, primarily due to the Covid pandemic. For a start it was a year late through no fault of its own, and was being held at the hottest and most humid time of the Japanese summer when sensible people retreat into air conditioning. It was not just by chance that when Tokyo hosted the Games in 1964 it was held in October, Japan's autumn.
History repeats itself
News, Postbag, Published on 20/09/2020
» Re: "Like it or not, wind of change is coming", (Opinion, Sept 19).
There's still a smile behind the masks
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 09/02/2020
» Venturing into central Bangkok these days is bit of a weird experience with nearly everyone, Thais and foreigners alike, understandably wearing face masks as protection from the double threat of caronavirus and dust pollution. The City of Angels is transforming into the City of Masks, but it is encouraging that people are taking the situation seriously. However, it is a strange feeling being in the Land of Smiles but not seeing many grins, owing to the masks. But do not despair. You can still see those Thai smiles in the eyes.