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1.3m items pawned in 2024, with gold, mobile phones topping list
Online Reporters, Published on 16/03/2025
» State-run pawnshops lent up more than 20 billion baht to Thai people in 2024 as gold and mobile phones remained the most popular pawned items, according to the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security.
Former pawnshop employee caught for B170m theft
Online Reporters, Published on 04/01/2024
» A former pawnshop employee has been arrested at a border checkpoint in Nong Khai for allegedly stealing gold items pledged by customers at the shop to repledge them, reaping about 170 million baht over the past two years.
State-run pawnshops get 2 years' credit
News, Post Reporters, Published on 03/08/2022
» The cabinet yesterday allowed the Public Pawnshop Office (PPO) to continue overdrawing so it will have enough money to help ease state-run pawnshops' liquidity, deputy government spokeswoman Rachada Dhnadirek.
Khon Kaen Municipality sets aside B200m for its pawn shops
Chakrapan Natanri, Published on 20/01/2022
» KHON KAEN: Khon Kaen Municipality has set aside about 200 million baht in reserves for its two pawnshops, for loans to people bringing in goods ranging from gold jewellery to a pestle and mortar to raise needed cash amid rising costs during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Pawnshops will even take ladders during the Covid epidemic
Assawin Pakkawan and Online Reporters, Published on 07/05/2021
» SONGKHLA: You can find almost anything at a pawn shop — from gold necklaces to a ladder — when the coronavirus hits people's purses.
Initiative helps reclaim pawned tools
News, Yuttapong Kumnodnae, Published on 13/05/2020
» UDON THANI: Some low-income earners who pawned their work tools for emergency cash got them back for free, thanks to a campaign initiated by governor Nirat Pongsithithaworn.
Udon low-income earners get their pawned tools redeemed
Yuttapong Kumnodnae, Published on 12/05/2020
» UDON THANI: Some low-income earners in this northeastern province who pawned their work tools for emergency cash have got their items back for free -- thanks to a redemption project initiated by governor Nirat Pongsithithaworn.
Govt warns of Covid-19 threat from family members at home
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 12/04/2020
» The government is warning that Covid-19 can be contracted within people's own homes after significant transmissions were recorded among family members over the past seven days.
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.
City Hall cuts pawnshop interest rate
Post Reporters, Published on 24/03/2020
» The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has lowered the interest rate on items pawned at City Hall-run pawnshops, to help households facing money problems for the new school term because of the epidemic.