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Bank of Thailand aims to quickly unlock frozen accounts
Read more: Bank of Thailand aims to quickly unlock frozen accountsThe Bank of Thailand is expediting efforts to unlock the financial transactions of suspended accounts affected by investigations into mules.
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Innocent vendors’ accounts frozen as scammers exploit online purchases, police warn
Read more: Innocent vendors’ accounts frozen as scammers exploit online purchases, police warnBank accounts of innocent online vendors are being frozen after scammers adopted new methods to launder stolen money, the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau (CCIB) said on Sunday.
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Phuket sees 5.85 million visitors in first 5 months
Read more: Phuket sees 5.85 million visitors in first 5 monthsRussians, Chinese and Indians were Phuket’s largest groups of tourists in the first five months of this year, generating around 223 billion baht in revenue, says the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT).
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MPs take up amnesty proposals
Read more: MPs take up amnesty proposalsThe House of Representatives on Wednesday began intense deliberations on five bills to foster social harmony and grant amnesty for political offences, submitted by MPs and citizen groups.
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Thaksin talks up new ‘soft power’ push
Read more: Thaksin talks up new ‘soft power’ pushAfter being conspicuously quiet during two weeks of high political drama in Thailand, former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra returned to the public eye on Wednesday with a splash — talking up his daughter’s favourite project.
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Two senior monks defrocked over sex videos
Read more: Two senior monks defrocked over sex videosTwo senior monks have been defrocked following the seizure of sex videos and over 80,000 images featuring sex between a woman and high-ranking clergy at well-known temples in Bangkok and other provinces.
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Opposition blames tourism losses on casino policy
Read more: Opposition blames tourism losses on casino policyAnutin Charnvirakul, former interior minister and leader of the now opposition Bhumjaithai Party, blames a sharp decline in Chinese arrivals and losses in Thailand’s tourism sector on the Pheu Thai-led government’s dismissive attitude towards Chinese President Xi Jinping’s repeated warnings against its casino legalisation policy.
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Thailand’s biggest call-scam gang sentenced to prison
Read more: Thailand’s biggest call-scam gang sentenced to prisonSeventy criminal accomplices rounded up in Thailand’s biggest scam-gang bust have been sentenced to up to 24 years in prison.
