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Thailand Just Gave 5 Million People Free AI. 500,000 Signed Up in Hours. Also: A 17-Year-Old Is Teaching What AI Can't.

Aug 21, 2026

Your Thai colleagues just got free access to 30+ premium AI models. Meanwhile, a Bangkok teenager built a platform around the skills no algorithm can replace.

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Bangkok Just Ranked #1 for Digital Nomads. If You Live Here, You Know Why. Also: The Nominee Crackdown Now Targets Leases.

Aug 20, 2026

฿50 pad thai, 1 Gbps fiber, a 5-year visa and a ฿300 massage. The ranking confirms what you already know. Plus the enforcement just expanded to leases.

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Thailand Wants to Link Your Immigration, Hospital and Bank Records. Also: ฿219B in Foreign Investment.

Aug 19, 2026

The anti-corruption commission says identity fraud threatens national security. But what else could a system like this do once it exists? Plus the biggest investment number of the year.

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Why expats ranked Thailand #1 for happiness (and dead last for this)

Aug 18, 2026

One global index put it at the top for quality of life, but a critical environmental ranking tells a different story. Plus: how a state-run AI contest gave a protected sea creature legs

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A 130-Year-Old Bangkok Mansion Is Closing Forever. You Have Two Weeks. Also: Police Used a BBQ to Catch Street Racers.

Aug 17, 2026

Deva Manor closes around August 31 after 18 years. Plus a 16-officer moo krata sting, a deputy chief disguised as a teenager, and four seized motorcycles.

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One Ticket. Every Bangkok Rail Line. ฿45 Max.

Aug 16, 2026

BTS, MRT and Airport Rail Link could finally work under one fare from January 1. Plus a 6-year-old wrote Moo Deng a letter—and the hippo signed back with her tail.

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You Won't Believe What Thailand Just Proposed For Foreigners - And The PM’s Unbelievable Air Force Stunt

Aug 15, 2026

A newly increased mandatory entry fee is officially back on the table. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister just piloted his own plane into an Air Force base under active F-16 fighter jet escort to issue five major military priorities.

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A 90-Year-Old Still Sells Noodles for His Wife.

Aug 14, 2026

His hands shake as he serves each bowl. Their son died, but he keeps working to care for his bedridden wife. Then Thailand showed up. Plus a foreign man's one-man crime spree across Bangkok.

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Your Electricity Bill Is About to Drop. Here's Why. Also: Bangkok Volunteers Beat a Taxi Driver.

Aug 13, 2026

฿3.89 per unit, with the first 200 units at ฿3. The new rates start in September. Plus the footage that has Bangkok asking what happened.

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45 Foreigners Just Got Warrants. Their Lawyers Said It Was Legal.

Aug 12, 2026

British, Chinese, Italian, French, Dutch, Austrian, Filipino and American nationals. Properties worth ฿10–20M. Plus the Mother's Day tradition behind Thailand's jasmine flowers.

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