A KOREAN couple who ran a cosmetics and beauty products store in Phuket’s Karon subdistrict were today (July 12) found hanged at their shophouse in what police believe was a suicide after their business collapsed, Amarin TV said. Pol. Lt. Col. Ekasak Kwanwan, an inspector at Karon police station, rushed to the three-story shophouse
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99-year land lease to foreigners, digital wallet scheme will harm the country: Jatuporn
A FORMER MP/Red Shirt leader Jatuporn Prompan warned that allowing foreigners to lease land for 99 years because they have so requested would only benefit real estate companies that are unable to sell 1.3 million condo units, TV Channel 7 said today (July 12). Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin recently moved to relax property regulations
Read moreOnly 43 billion baht in Central Fund to finance digital wallet project
By Thai Newsroom Reporters NO MORE THAN A SUM OF 43 billion baht will be withdrawn from the government’s Central Fund for the current fiscal year to partly finance the digital wallet project, confirmed Prime Minister’s Office Minister Jakapong Sangmanee today (July 12). Jakapong contended that not as much as 100 billion baht to
Read moreCertain party ‘offering hidden payoffs in bid to recruit senators’
By Thai Newsroom Reporters NEWLY-ELECTED SENATOR Premsak Piayura alleged today (July 12) a certain political party was quietly attempting to “recruit” a number of his colleagues to covertly get under their umbrella. Without naming names, Premsak said many among the total 200 newly-elected senators who are constitutionally obliged to be practically independent of political
Read moreBiden mixes up Harris, Trump names as calls to end his campaign grow
By Reuters and published by CNA Washington – United States President Joe Biden mixed up the names of his vice president, Kamala Harris, and his Republican rival Donald Trump on Thursday (July 11) as more of the 81-year-old incumbent’s Democratic colleagues call on him to end his re-election bid. Biden faces growing doubts from
Read morePheu Thai has no policy to oust own MPs: Paetongtarn
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PHEU THAI LEADER PAETONGTARN Shinawatra bluntly commented yesterday (July 11) that her ruling party has had no policy to expel any MPs of their own. Paetongtarn, daughter of de facto Pheu Thai boss Thaksin Shinawatra, was apparently referring to Pheu Thai MP Chalerm Yubamrung who has openly dared the party’s
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