A RAID on three shops in Bangkok’s Chinatown netted over 800 high-priced knock-off luxury watches that caused more than 50 million baht damages, Naewna newspaper said this afternoon (Oct. 3). A police team from the Central Investigation Bureau’s Economic Crime Suppression Division, accompanied by representatives from intellectual property rights defenders and trademark owners, arrested
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Wear a rainbow Swatch watch in Malaysia and you could face 3 years in jail
By Heather Chen, CNN Kuala Lumpur – Wearing a rainbow-themed Swatch watch in Malaysia could now land you three years in jail, after the government banned what it described as the brand’s “LGBTQ related” products — claiming they are “harmful to morality.” Anybody who wears, sells, imports or distributes the Swiss watchmaker’s rainbow-themed products
Read moreInterpol issues red notice for Thai woman, Singaporean husband in 800m baht fraud case
THAI police are following up on the international hunt for a Thai woman and her Singaporean husband for whom Interpol has issued a red notice after 180 victims of their alleged luxury bags and watches fraud with losses totalling over 800 million baht had filed complaints with Singaporean police, Naewna newspaper said today (July
Read moreKorat temple’s guardian giants hold submarine, wear friend’s watches
TWO INNOVATIVE sculptures of guardian giants now adorn the newly-renovated ordination hall of Wat Muang in Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat) province with these being unlike any other as not only are they sleeping at the doorway, one holds a submarine while the other wears two watches with a tag saying borrowed from a friend on
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