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Day: July 17, 2024

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Mystery solved: Snake medicine ordered by suicide-murder Vietnamese woman is a supplement

  THE puzzling “snake medicine No. 7” which one of the six Vietnamese visitors, with two being American citizens, who died in a murder-suicide at a luxury hotel on Tuesday (July 16) had asked her guide to buy for her turned out to be a Thai supplement and not a poison as earlier suspected, Matichon […]

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122 billion baht supplementary budget bill for digital wallet project sails through House

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters LEGISLATION FOR the Pheu Thai-led government to acquire a sum of 122 billion baht in supplementary budget to partly finance the 450 billion baht digital wallet project today (July 17) smoothly sailed through the approval-in-principle stage in the House of Representatives. After a 10-hour floor debate on the highly contentious […]

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Vietnamese guide admits to getting ‘snake’ poison for murder-suicide at hotel

  A VIETNAMESE guide questioned by police has admitted to supplying poison to Ms. Thi Nguyen Phuong Lan who was among the six Vietnamese visitors, with two being American citizens, who died in murder-suicide at a luxury downtown hotel yesterday (July 16), TV Channel 7 and  Matichon newspaper said this evening.’ The guide, Mr. Phan […]

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Icelandic man found dead at Samut Prakan hotel

  AN ICELANDIC man was found dead at a hotel room in Bang Phli district of Samut Prakan province today (July 17) in unclear circumstances with police assuming that the alcohol he drank triggered an underlying health condition, TV Channel 7 said this afternoon. At 11.30 a.m. police at Bang Kaew station were informed of […]

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One of six  Vietnamese visitors poisoned the others and herself over investment: Police

  POLICE have concluded that the six Vietnamese visitors, with two being American citizens, who died at a luxury downtown hotel yesterday (July 16) were poisoned by a woman in the group who died along with them over 10 million baht investment not yielding returns, Thai Rath and Naewna newspapers said this afternoon. Pol. Maj. […]

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5 questioned all night over fatal poisoning of six Vietnamese at luxury hotel

  FIVE people were questioned all night last night over the fatal poisoning of six Vietnamese visitors, two of them American citizens, with one being a friend of a sister of one of the victims, Amarin TV and Naewna newspaper said this morning (July 17). Meanwhile it was mentioned at “World Forum International News” Thai-language […]

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World News

US received intel of Iranian plot to assassinate Trump, CNN reports

  By Reuters and published by CNA Washington – The United States received intelligence in recent weeks about an Iranian plot to assassinate former President Donald Trump, CNN said on Tuesday (July 16), and a US official said the Secret Service shared details of an increased threat with the Trump campaign. The White House declined […]

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