Cambodia to provide free SEA Games broadcast rights
By Xinhua and Matichon Phnom Penh – Cambodia is to provide free-of-charge live broadcast rights to local and overseas TV networks for the upcoming 32nd Southeast Asian (SEA) Games and the 12th Asean Para Games. Cambodia had previously set the fee for live broadcast of the games in Thailand at US$800,000, or around 28 […]
Read MoreThais got 17 million scam calls in 2022, 45% phone numbers leaked
THE total number of scam calls made to Thais last year jumped by 165% to 17 million while over 45% of phone numbers in this country, or 13.5 million, had been leaked, according to Gogolook, the Taiwan-based developer of caller identification app Whoscall, Naewna newspaper said today (Mar. 31). In its annual report Gogolook […]
Read MoreSomsak denies jail term privileges prepared for homecoming Thaksin
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FORMER JUSTICE MINISTER Somsak Thepsuthin today (Mar.31) categorically denied he had looked to provide privileges for a self-exiled Thaksin Shinawatra who earlier offered to put himself behind bars upon his planned homecoming. Somsak, leader of Sam Mit Group of former MPs who has recently hopped over from the Palang Pracharath […]
Read MoreHuge forest fire in Nakhon Nayok spreads to fourth mountain
WITH THE massive forest fire in Nakhon Nayok that broke out on Wednesday night (Mar. 29) having now spread to the fourth mountain, over a hundred firefighters and two helicopters were sent to extinguish it this morning (Mar. 31), Naewna newspaper said. At 10.30 a.m. provincial Governor Mr. Buncha Chaowarin presided over a ceremony […]
Read MoreUS: North Korea engaged in arms-for-food deal with Russia
By AP and published by Toronto Star Washington – The White House on Thursday (Mar. 31) said it has new evidence that Russia is looking again to North Korea for weapons to fuel the war in Ukraine, this time in a deal that would provide Pyongyang with needed food and other commodities in return. […]
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