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Day: June 19, 2024

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Thailand continues converting battlefields into trading fields, this time in the South

  Pattani Province, South Thailand – In the 1980s, after the end of the Indochina wars of the 1970s, Thailand forged a policy of “converting battlefields into trading fields”, making the kingdom a hub of travel, trade and transportation for the Greater Mekong Subregion countries of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. As its far-sighted success is […]

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Police confident those behind escape of oil-smuggling boats will be prosecuted

  POLICE are certain that those involved in the escape of three oil-smuggling boats from the Marine Police pier in Sattahip and subsequent capture near Songkhla city in the south could be prosecuted despite prosecutors having raised the question that if they were seized in international waters it would make the case difficult, Naewna newspaper […]

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Chinese-made goods to flood Thai markets under digital wallet scheme: Move Forward

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters VARIETIES OF CHEAP, Chinese-made merchandise will likely flood Thailand’s domestic markets under the vote-wooing, Pheu Thai-initiated digital wallet project, Move Forward leader Chaithawat Tulathon concluded today (June 19). During the first day of a marathon floor debate in the House of Representatives, the Move Forward leader-cum-Opposition leader took the Pheu […]

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PM underscores digital wallet project will spur economic growth

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER SRETTHA Thavisin today (June 19) reconfirmed the much-heralded, yet-delayed digital wallet project will definitely become a major economic stimulus to increase domestic consumption, manufacturing of goods, creation of jobs and hefty revenue to the state coffers. Addressing the House of Representatives on the 2025 budget legislation during the […]

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