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Thailand’s Hostage Crisis in Gaza Takes a Shocking Turn: ‘I’m Not Dead Yet!’
29Nov By adminNo Comments
World

Thailand’s Hostage Crisis in Gaza Takes a Shocking Turn: ‘I’m Not Dead Yet!’

NA PHO, Thailand—Four days after Hamas militants tore through southern Israel, a mournful procession of local officials here in Thailand’s bucolic east came to tell the family of Wichai Kalapat that the 28-year-old fruit farmer was among those killed. His girlfriend, Kittiya Thuengsaeng, hung a picture of him outside her front door.On Saturday, Wichai appeared, Lazarus-like, in footage from a prisoner exchange. Shortly before midnight, his bewildered siblings happened to glimpse him, smiling from the back of a white Red Cross landcruiser, in a picture on Facebook, reluctant to believe it was him until his face appeared on a video call hours later.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Thai Central Bank Keeps Rate at Decade High, Tempers Growth Forecasts
29Nov By adminNo Comments
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Thai Central Bank Keeps Rate at Decade High, Tempers Growth Forecasts

Nov. 29, 2023 3:25 am ET|WSJ ProThailand’s central bank kept its benchmark policy rate at its highest point in a decade, saying that the economy is recovering, while forecasting “more balanced” growth in the years to come.The Bank of Thailand said Wednesday that it will maintain its one-day repurchase rate at 2.50%, ending a run of eight straight increases that began in August last year. At its previous meeting, the bank had raised the rate to its highest level since November 2013.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Hamas Releases First Group of Hostages in Gaza Cease-Fire Deal With Israel
25Nov By adminNo Comments
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Hamas Releases First Group of Hostages in Gaza Cease-Fire Deal With Israel

Listen to article(2 minutes)Hamas on Friday released 24 hostages taken from Israel, a diplomatic breakthrough after seven weeks of war in Gaza, as the focus now shifts to freeing others held captive and maintaining a fighting pause in the strip.The release of the hostages, which keeps a fragile cease-fire on track, was the result of weeks of negotiations over a deal between Israel and Hamas that was brokered by Qatar and Egypt with the help of the U.S.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Miss Universe Pageant Business Troubles Could Overshadow the Glamour
18Nov By adminNo Comments
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Miss Universe Pageant Business Troubles Could Overshadow the Glamour

When Thai media mogul Jakkaphong Jakrajutatip fulfilled her lifelong dream of buying Miss Universe, it signaled a new chapter for the beleaguered pageant.Miss Universe, which bows tonight in El Salvador, had been limping along with dwindling relevance in recent years. Until 2022, when colorful businesswoman and trans reality star Jakrajutatip, 44, bought it with plans to reinvigorate the pageant. Also known as Anne Jakrajutatip and Anne JKN, Jakrajutatip is the chief executive of Thai media conglomerate JKN Global, which owns television stations, content distribution networks, a beverage factory and other businesses.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Thailand extends visa-free entry to Indian tourists for six months
6Nov By adminNo Comments
Travel

Thailand extends visa-free entry to Indian tourists for six months

Thailand has decided to grant visa-free entry to tourists from India and Taiwan from November 10, 2023 to May 10, 2024, in a bid to attract more visitors as the tourism season approaches. This move, as stated by a Thai government official to Reuters, allows travellers from India and Taiwan to stay in Thailand for 30 days. The authorities anticipate that this initiative will entice an additional 1.4 million tourists, generating approximately 55 billion baht or $1.5 billion in revenue. Previously, Indian and Taiwanese tourists were required to apply for a 15-day visa-on-arrival at immigration checkpoints, along with providing bank statements and proof of accommodation. In September of this year, Thailand had already waived tourist visa requirements for Chinese nationals, as China was the l...
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Hamas Puts Its Pogrom on Video
28Oct By adminNo Comments
Health

Hamas Puts Its Pogrom on Video

No one at Friday’s screening in New York of the raw footage of Hamas’s atrocities during its Oct. 7 invasion of Israel will forget what they saw. The journalist next to us, at the Israeli consulate in New York, was crying. Mouths seemed to hang open, even after the rampage recorded by jubilant Hamas terrorists on their GoPros had ended, and Israeli officials tried to make sense of what we saw.Why did the Hamas men, upon confronting the dead body of a teenage girl, start cheering? Why did they argue over who would get to decapitate a Thai guest worker they had shot, then proclaim “Allahu akbar” with every swing at his neck?Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Thailand’s MQDC to open 42,000 square feet co-working centre in Gurugram
17Oct By adminNo Comments
Business

Thailand’s MQDC to open 42,000 square feet co-working centre in Gurugram

Thailand-based leading realty firm Magnolia Quality Development Corporation (MQDC) will soon open its second co-working centre in India and has taken on lease 42,000 square feet of office space in Gurugram. MQDC already has one co-working facility in South Delhi and is opening its second facility, 'Whizdom Club India, at Golf Course Road, Gurugram, next month. The upcoming centre is located at 'Tapasya One', a LEED Gold-rated building. The centre will have a seating capacity of over 450 and is designed to cater to the diverse needs of working professionals, corporations, and startups in the NCR region. Commenting on the expansion, Chulamas Jitpatima (Amy), Country Director, MQDC India, said, In 2019, we launched Whizdom Club in South Delhi with the aim to tra...
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Hamas Targets Jews but Slaughters Indiscriminately
14Oct By adminNo Comments
Business

Hamas Targets Jews but Slaughters Indiscriminately

My social-media feeds were brimming with bad news from Israel, but a Monday tweet from Jerusalem’s deputy mayor tore at me with more force than others. It told of a nurse from the Philippines—identified only as “Angeline,” her smile in a photo alongside living up to her sweet name—who was murdered by Hamas at a kibbutz three miles from Gaza. She’d been caring for an old Israeli woman, who was also murdered. The tweet said Angeline stayed by the side of her patient “despite having a chance to flee.” Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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