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Car-pawning scams broken up
News, Online Reporters, Published on 21/08/2025
» Police have made seven arrests in two separate cases in which people desperate for money were persuaded to pawn their cars, after which the scammers sold them off in Thailand and abroad. The damages exceeded 100 million baht.
Fortunes slip; jealous son strikes; random drive-by
News, Mae Moo, Published on 11/05/2025
» Soothsayer goes to work
Stars align for Yingluck's return
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 09/12/2024
» The prospect of fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra returning home to celebrate the Songkran festival in mid-April is not just wishful thinking by her brother Thaksin, given developments concerning a few key players in the infamous rice-pledging scheme and the Corrections Department's move to draft regulations pertaining to detentions outside prison.
One-man fraud machine costs victims B76m
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 08/08/2022
» Renting out luxury cars can be a risky business.
Body on the lawn mystery, conscript battle, hold the pork
News, Mae Moo, Published on 14/11/2021
» Hmmm...how did he get there?
Parking lot fling, crash damages mount, red knickers alert
News, Mae Moo, Published on 11/04/2021
» Fling helps herself to assets
Covid-19 prompts rush to pawn shops
News, Published on 09/04/2020
» A 40-year-old woman looks at her blender for the last time before quickly leaving it at a pawnshop.
Trio held for stealing, pawning rental cars
News, Achadthaya Chuenniran, Published on 07/09/2019
» PHUKET: Three people preying on car rental operators have been arrested in Phuket and Trang for selling 40 rented vehicles.
There's a whole lot of digging going on
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 23/06/2019
» This week the Bangkok Governor bravely announced that the tangled mess of overhead telecom and broadcast cables which have decorated Bangkok's streets for so long, will definitely be gone within two years. One suspects this might make him a leading candidate for the new post of Minister of Wishful Thinking.
Pawn shops offer more than money for old rope
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 08/01/2018
» City Hall last year saw profits from its pawn business jump by millions of baht although financial gain is not its primary goal.