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As Payathonzu people struggle in the dark, Chinese gangs enjoy all-night karaoke session

  AS PEOPLE in Myanmar’s Payathonzu township, opposite Sangkhlaburi district of Kanchanaburi, struggle to live without electricity after Thailand cut off supply on Wednesday morning (Feb. 5) the Chinese gangs there used generators to run a karaoke at an entertainment venue singing happily all night long, Naewna newspaper and Amarin TV said today. Aside from

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Thaksin urged to get Cambodia-based scammers busted

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra has been encouraged to exert his personal influence to the extent that suspected call-centre scams based in Cambodia’s Poipet township and Sihanoukville city and preying on victims in Thailand be completely suppressed. Given his long-lasting, personal ties with former Cambodian prime minister Hun

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8 women among 61 scam centre victims released as minister visits Mae Sot

  AMONG the 61 victims from seven countries lured to work at the scam hub in Myanmar’s Myawaddy township, opposite Thailand’s Mae Sot town, released today (Feb. 6) are eight women, Naewna newspaper said, Rachamanu Task Force revealed that the 61 victims who had been working at the notorious Shwe Kokko scam centre in Myawaddy

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