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New Thai-Lao train service debuts tomorrow

  STARTING tomorrow (July 19) is a new Thai-Lao train service directly linking Bangkok and Vientiane with this being a project undertaken by the governments of the two countries to better connect rail systems, TV Channel 7 said today. This daily rail service is an extension of the Bangkok-Nong Khai route with the State Railway

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No Thai banks involved in arms sales to Myanmar: FM

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters FOREIGN MINISTER MARIS Sangiampongsa today (July 18) categorically dismissed a United Nations report that Thai-owned banks had been allegedly involved in arms sales to Myanmar government forces. During today’s interpellation in the House of Representatives, the foreign minister denied the unnamed Thai banks had been involved in money transactions worth

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ISOC denies using spyware to hack activists’ smartphones

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE INTERNAL SECURITY Operations Command today (July 18) categorically denied the army-led agency had used a Pegasus spyware to illegally access data in civilians’ smartphones. ISOC spokesperson Maj. Gen. Winthai Suwari dismissed allegations recently lodged by the human-rights activist group iLaw that the ISOC had used the Israeli-made spyware to

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