Thai-US trade talks irrelevant to Cobra Gold military exercise: PM
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER Anutin Charnvirakul today (Aug.14) categorically denied that bilateral trade relations between the United States and Thailand would ultimately have anything to do with the Cobra Gold military exercise between the two allied countries. Anutin was apparently responding to unconfirmed speculation that the annual military exercise jointly hosted by […]
Read MoreThailand not linking Cobra Gold 2027 war games to US tariff cuts: Ministry
THE THAI Defence Ministry denied that Thailand is using the holding of Cobra Gold 2027 military exercise to wrestle tariff reduction from the US with the war games being held as planned while still studying letting US set up a drone manufacturing plant here, TV Channel 7 said this afternoon (Aug. 13). RADM Surasan […]
Read More100,000-baht reward offered for tip leading to capture of Laotian gold shop robbers
THAI police set a 100,000-baht reward for information leading to the arrest of two Laotian robbers who stole around 13-million-baht worth of ornaments from a gold shop in Chiang Khong district of Chiang Rai province last evening (Aug. 4) and fled across the border to their homeland, Amarin TV said this evening. The ornaments […]
Read MoreJustice Minister sceptical over Pawoot’s cash profit without decimal points from trading gold online
By Thai Newsroom Reporters JUSTICE MINISTER Rutthapol Naowarat today (June 23) expressed his personal scepticism that a sum of 28 million baht in cash earlier supposedly earned by People’s MP Pawoot Pongvitayapanu from trading gold online may have carried no decimal points at all. The Bhumjaithai-attached justice minister was responding to Pawoot’s statement earlier […]
Read More2 Chinese men rob gold shop after running out of money while holidaying in Thailand
TWO young Chinese men who spent all their money while holidaying in Thailand were caught in Bangkok last evening (April 27) after robbing a gold shop in Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat), PPTVHD36 said today. The two suspects, identified as Mr. Zhou Qintao, 27, from Guangdong province, and Mr. Song Haolong, 19, from Sichuan province, were […]
Read MoreThai central bank flags gold trade curbs, plays down impact of US monitoring list
By Reuters and published by CNA THAILAND’S new rules to curb online gold trading were designed to help weaken the baht, the country’s central bank said on Friday (Jan. 30) as it downplayed any impact from the United States adding Thailand to its currency manipulation monitoring list. The central bank has blamed gold trading […]
Read MoreThailand to strengthen controls on gold trading to curb baht rise, central bank chief says
By Reuters and published by CNA THAILAND will impose controls on gold trading as it bids to tackle its overvalued baht currency and ease pressures on economic growth, central bank governor Vitai Ratanakorn said on Wednesday (Jan. 28). The baht has gained about 1.5 percent against the dollar so far this year after a […]
Read MoreThai gold traders with at least 10 billion baht in annual transactions must report to central bank
By Reuters and published by CNA THAI gold traders with average annual transactions of at least 10 billion baht ($320.72 million) over the past five years must report their activities to the central bank, according to the official Royal Gazette. They also need to keep transaction records for at least three years, it said […]
Read MoreOfficials chase illegal gold mining gang in reserved forest
OFFICIALS of Thong Pha Phum National Park in Kanchanaburi province together with soldiers and Border Patrol Police moved in on a gang of 15 to 20 illegal gold miners as they were digging and panning on top of a mountain but managed to arrest only one suspect after chasing them through the thick forest, […]
Read MoreHunt for southern insurgents who robbed gold shop
A BIG group of southern insurgents mounted a well-organised robbery of a gold shop at a shopping mall in Su-ngai Kolok district, Narathiwat province, last evening (Oct. 5) and made off with at least 500 baht weight of gold ornaments, Amarin TV said this morning. There was an exchange of gunfire with police before […]
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