Thailand: Alleged phone scam gang busted

Police have arrested members of a Taiwanese group in Chon Buri alleged to have lured people into transferring more than 350 million baht into their accounts via ATM machines. Thirteen suspects – nine Taiwanese and four Chinese nationals – were arrested in two separate raids on Friday. Twelve of the suspects, five of them women, […]

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Lawyers for ex-Thai leader Thaksin denies his family funded Red Shirt protests

BANGKOK – Lawyers for the family of ex-leader Thaksin Shinawatra met with investigators in Thailand on Tuesday and denied accusations of having financed the recent anti-government protests that sparked bloody clashes with security forces. Thaksin, his ex-wife Pojaman, and two of their three grown children are among 83 people and companies suspected by the government […]

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Bombs target ATMs in troubled southern Thai province

Pattani, Thailand – A spate of bombs planted at bank automatic teller machines in Thailand’s violence-wracked southern province of Narathiwat exploded Tuesday, injuring two people. Bombs were detonated at four ATM booths and one beauty parlour in the province, which is 800 kilometres south of Bangkok and borders Malaysia, said Internal Security Operations Command southern […]

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