A FORMER Special Branch police officer said today (Sep. 20) that he has submitted a letter requesting a meeting with Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul to relate allegations about four executive politicians within his Bhumjaithai party with two of them who now ministers allegedly being major shareholders in a Cambodian casino, Amarin TV said. Mr.
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Nearly 200 Thai migrant workers want to return to Khmer dens
By Thai Newsroom Reporters NEARLY 200 THAI NATIONALS have been found currently looking to return to Cambodia for jobs mostly suspected in relation to call-centre fraud, online gambling scams and casinos because they would probably anticipate border clashes between Thai and Cambodian forces which occurred far from their usual workplaces to alleviate and return
Read more10 casinos at Cambodia’s border town hit by border dispute
TEN popular casinos at Cambodia’s Poipet border town, just opposite Rong Kluea market in Aranyaprathet subdistrict, Sa Kaeo province, are now extremely quiet with Thai gamblers staying away after a border dispute flared up between the two countries as even though the dispute has now eased restricted checkpoint opening hours is still in place,
Read moreNewin’s son airs dissent to Pheu Thai-designed casino bill
By Thai Newsroom Reporters BHUMJAITHAI SECRETARY-GENERAL/MP Chaichanok Chidchob today (Apr. 9) took the House floor to say he ultimately disagrees with the questionable Pheu Thai legislation to open casinos anywhere in Thailand. Chaichanok made his rare, resolute comments at parliament in the wake of concerted opposition by varied sectors of society to the highly
Read moreThaksin threatens coalition partners to vote for casino bill or be kicked out
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra has quietly threatened to oust any coalition partners from the Pheu Thai-led government if they may choose to deny legislation on the upcoming Wednesday to open casinos under entertainment complex projects in certain tourist spots, a partisan source said today (Apr. 7). Despite
Read moreEntertainment complexes, casinos to draw 100 billion baht investment: Julapun
By Amarin TV and Reuters – published by Yahoo!News AFTER the cabinet approved a draft law on setting up entertainment complexes which will also have casinos earlier today (March 27) Deputy Finance Minister Julapun Amornvivat said new investment will be approximately 100 billion baht with this generating significant economic results, Amarin TV said this
Read more50-day deadline set to review draft Entertainment Complex Act
THE Council of State has been given 50 days to review the draft Entertainment Complex Act after the Cabinet approved the landmark legislative proposal in principle on Jan. 13 with this opening the door for casinos to be part of larger entertainment complexes, Amarin TV said today (Jan. 21). Mr. Pakorn Nilprapan, the Council
Read moreThai casinos might become money-laundering venues for ‘grey’ Chinese
By Thai Newsroom Reporters SUSPECTED CHINESE criminals might probably launder their ill-gotten money at any entertainment complexes and casinos planned to open in the future in Thailand, said People’s MP Rangsiman Rome today (Jan. 14). He said ”grey” Chinese businesspersons and other suspected criminals might probably find the newly-opened entertainment and gambling venues in
Read moreNo casinos in entertainment complexes, says Bhumjaithai
A BHUMJAITHAI MP said towards the end of the two-day debate on Pheu Thai-led coalition government’s policy statement delivered by Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra late last night that while his party backs setting up mega entertainment complexes they must not have any casinos, Naewna newspaper said this morning (Sep. 14) Mr. Chaichanok Chidchob, son
Read moreDemocrat Party executive calls for referendum on opening casinos
A DEMOCRAT Party executive committee member today (Aug. 18) urged the new government to hold a referendum on the opening of entertainment complexes housing legalised casinos as pushed by the outgoing Srettha Thavisin government to stimulate the economy with there being many controversial issues surrounding it, particularly morality, Naewna newspaper said. Mr. Mekhin Iamsa-ard,
Read morePrayut’s party calls for setting up legal casinos
THE DEPUTY leader of Ruam Thai Sang Chart Party, which is de facto led by former prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, today (Nov. 18) called for the setting up of legal casinos in Thailand as means of helping the country emerge from an economic downturn, Matichon newspaper said. Mr. Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana, the party’s deputy leader
Read moreMPs push for legalization of online gaming, casinos, underground lotteries
By Thai Newsroom Reporters LAWMAKERS ATTACHED TO pro-government splinter parties today (May 18) filed legislation to amend the Gambling Act to legalize online gaming, casinos and underground lotteries once and for all. Spearheaded by Thai Local Power Party leader/MP Chatchawal Kong-udom, the 20 proponents of the amendment to the Gambling Act of 1935 have
Read moreConwoman nabbed after gambling away swindled gold
A THAI woman who swindled a gold shop in Rayong province out of 20 baht weight gold ornaments worth 570,000 baht which was then sold and the cash used to gamble at casinos in a neighbouring country was arrested after slipping back to Thailand via a natural route last evening, Amarin TV reported this afternoon
Read morePush for legal casinos runs into strong opposition
MAKING a new move to allow the opening of legal casinos in Thailand is the head of Thai Civilized microparty but other MPs have vowed to strongly oppose it, Naewna newspaper and Amarin TV reported today (June 22, 2020). Mongkolkit Suksin-tharanon, leader and party-list MP of the Thai Civilized Party and who has the support
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