Life

Lottery chaos: Couple with winning number fails to get 30 million baht

  A COUPLE filed a police report against an online lottery vendor after the number on five tickets they had ordered but did not received, 727202, turned out to be the first prize winner in Sunday’s draw, with the total payout being whooping 30 million baht, Sanook.com said today (Oct. 2). At 10.30 a.m. Mr.

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Business

Narumon tipped to be named another Trade Representative

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters AN OUTSPOKEN NARUMON PINYOSINWAT will likely be named another Thailand Trade Representative very shortly, government sources said today (Oct.2). The former deputy labour minister and former government spokeswoman is largely speculated to join Nalinee Taveesin who has already been named Thailand Trade Representative by Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin. Nalinee had

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Local news

All nine districts of Sukhothai hit by flash floods

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters ALL NINE DISTRICTS of Sukhothai are critically affected by flash floods due to torrential rain and an overflowing river, officials said today (Oct.2). An estimated 1,365 households in low-lying terrains in 165 villages throughout Sukhothai are being evacuated, following the weekend’s torrential rain and Yom River overflowing from northern provinces

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Local news

Vote against Pita led to Pornthip being turned away from Iceland restaurant: Chaithawat

  MOVE FORWARD leader Chaithawat Tulathon today (Oct. 1) said the root cause of Senator Khunying Pornthip Rojanasunan being told to leave a restaurant in Reykjavík, Iceland, by its Thai owner is the anger felt by many people over senators blocking the party’s former leader and current advisory chairman Pita Limjaroenrat from becoming prime minister,

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Tropical Storm Koinu to hit Thailand during Oct. 9-11

  THE CEO of a public-listed engineering company issued a warning that a tropical depression hanging over the Pacific has turned into Tropical Storm Koinu and as it moves westwards will hit Thailand during Oct. 9-11, Matichon newspaper said. Mr. Chawalit Chandrarat, CEO of Team Consulting Engineering and Management Plc, or Team Group, said Koinu

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World news

No current talks with Taliban, Afghanistan’s Massoud says, promising guerrilla warfare

  By Reuters and published by Yahoo!News Paris – There are no talks with the Taliban to negotiate a peace settlement, Afghan anti-Taliban leader said on Thursday (Sep. 28), vowing to step up “guerrilla warfare” to bring the hardline Islamists to the negotiating table. Speaking in an interview in Paris, Massoud, the exiled leader of

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Local news

Ex-Democrat deputy leader gets 4 years’ jail in sexual harassment case

  FORMER Democrat Party deputy leader Prinn Panichphakdi was today (Sep. 29) sentenced to six years in jail, but this reduced to four years, plus told to pay 2 million baht compensation to his sexual harassment victim Mrs. Hathairat Thanakitamnuay, or Anna, wife of wealthy protester Mr. Thanat Thanakitamnuay, or Hiso Luknut, Matichon newspaper and

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Local news

Padipat ‘technically’ ousted from Move Forward as new opposition leader moves in

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters DEPUTY HOUSE SPEAKER Padipat Santipada was yesterday (Sep.28) “technically” ousted as a Move Forward member to give way for the naming of the newly-voted Move Forward leader Chaithawat Tulanond as opposition leader. The Move Forward executive board resolved to “technically” oust Padipat as partisan member in accordance with the constitution

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Analysis

FEATURE: The fourth generation of Soi Rajakrue figures has quietly come of age

  By Out-Crowd IT HAS BEEN A QUARTER of a century since senior members of the Soi Rajakrue elite clique completely stopped playing the roles of a powerhouse over Thailand’s complicated, cloak-and-dagger politics due to the passing of former prime minister Chatichai Choonhavan in 1998. Now the fourth generation of Soi Rajakrue figures has virtually

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In major blow to TikTok, Indonesia bans e-commerce transactions on social media

  By Reuters and published by CNA Jakarta – Indonesia has banned e-commerce transactions on social media platforms, the trade minister said on Wednesday (Sep. 27), in a blow to short video app TikTok, which is doubling down on Southeast Asia’s biggest economy to boost its e-commerce business. The government said the move, which takes

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