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Day: January 14, 2025

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Thai casinos might become money-laundering venues for ‘grey’ Chinese

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters  SUSPECTED CHINESE criminals might probably launder their ill-gotten money at any entertainment complexes and casinos planned to open in the future in Thailand, said People’s MP Rangsiman Rome today (Jan. 14). He said ”grey” Chinese businesspersons and other suspected criminals might probably find the newly-opened entertainment and gambling venues in […]

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Tourist dies in jet-ski collision at Patong Bay

  A CHINESE tourist died after the jet-ski he was zipping around at Patong Bay this afternoon (Jan. 14) collided with the one his friend was riding, Amarin TV said. At 2:30 p.m, Pol. Lt. Col. Thapapon Paengphimlo, an investigation officer at Patong police station, was alerted by a jet-ski hire operator that two water […]

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Business

Thaksin: Govt opening door for using Bitcoin in Phuket

  DE FACTO Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra said at dinner talk last night (Jan. 13) that the government is moving to allow payment by Bitcoin in Phuket with recipients not at any risk at all as this is another currency in the world, Naewna newspaper said. At the dinner talk held at Dusit Thani […]

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Thaksin’s medical records feared to be a tall tale: Ex-MP

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters A FORMER LAWMAKER has doubted that medical records of Police Hospital on last year’s purported treatment of the “critically-ill” de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra will be entirely based on factual evidence and no tall tale. Ex-Democrat MP/now Thai Pakdee chair Warong Dechgitvigrom posted on his Facebook page yesterday […]

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