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Day: December 30, 2022

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Two Indian men in a punch-up on Thai Smile flight

  CIRCULATING on social media is a video clip of two Indian men having a punch-up on a Thai Smile flight from Bangkok to India on Dec. 27 with the air hostess successfully separating the two angry fliers, Thai Rath newspaper said. As the video clip spread rapidly online other passengers on this flight said […]

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Electoral contestants warned against handing out New Year gifts, calendars

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters ALL THOSE WHO MAY contest the next general election for MPs are cautioned to never hand out New Year gifts or calendars to anyone from now until the polling date. The Election Commission is seeing to it that no electoral contestants will practically break the law by handing out New […]

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Prayut has failed to fight corruption for eight years: Academic

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PRAYUT Chan-o-cha has evidently failed to combat corruption in bureaucratic circles over the last eight years since the former army chief seized power, according to a noted academic. Thammasat University’s law lecturer Prinya Thaewanarumitkul has posted on his Facebook page to allege Prayut of having utterly failed to […]

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22 employees, gamblers dead in Cambodian casino-hotel inferno

THE HUGE FIRE at the three-building casino-hotel complex in Cambodia’s Poipet border town, just across from Aranyaprathet subdistrict, Sa Kaeo province, has killed 22 employees and gamblers so far with 53 injured and eight still missing, Thai Rath newspaper said today (Dec. 30). Eyewitnesses said the blaze at Grand Diamond City Hotel and Casino which […]

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