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South Korean financial, romance scammers nabbed in Chonburi villa raid

  Updated at 12.55 a.m. A RAID on a luxury pool villa in Bang Lamung district of Chonburi today (June 21) led to the arrest of 20 South Korean men and just one Chinese man on the charges of running a financial and romance scam operation, Thai Rath newspaper said this evening. A team of

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Thaksin to keep Paetongtarn in power until budget bill’s final reading

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra has stalled for time to keep his daughter-turned-prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra in power until after legislation on the 2026 government budget passes final approval in parliament in August, a partisan source said over the weekend. Thaksin, father of the besieged woman prime minister,

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Hun Sen tells govt to stop importing Thai canned food, shrugs off oil cut threat

  CAMBODIA’S former premier and current Senate President Hun Sen last night (June 20) urged his government to stop importing all types of canned food from Thailand if restricted border opening is not lifted while ignoring a Thai opposition party’s call to stop exporting oil, TV Channel 7 said this morning. In a Facebook post

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