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Go-Jek aims to raise $2 billion for Southeast Asia expansion - sources

By Anshuman Daga and Fanny Potkin

 

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A Go-Jek driver rides a motorcycle on a street in Jakarta, Indonesia, December 15, 2017. REUTERS/Beawiharta/File Photo

 

SINGAPORE/JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesian ride-hailing firm Go-Jek is seeking to raise about $2 billion from existing investors, including Tencent Holdings Ltd and JD.com, to fund its expansion plans in Southeast Asia, sources familiar with the matter said on Monday.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1057691-go-jek-aims-to-raise-2-billion-for-southeast-asia-expansion-sources/

 

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Weakening Mangkhut will still strengthen southwest monsoon over Andaman Sea and Gulf, ONWR warns

By The Nation

 

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The Temporary Crisis Centre of the Office of National Water Resources (ONWR) affirmed that Typhoon Mangkhut had weakened into a tropical storm at 63 kilometres northeast of the Chinese city of Nanning early Monday morning and would further downgrade into a depression and low-pressure cell, before moving to Yunnan on Tuesday.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1057693-weakening-mangkhut-will-still-strengthen-southwest-monsoon-over-andaman-sea-and-gulf-onwr-warns/

 

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Man found hanged beside Phuket’s busiest road

By Eakkapop Thongtub

 

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Rescue workers recover the man’s body early yesterday morning (Sept 16). Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET:-- Police are hoping to identify the body of a man found hanged in a sala beside a sweet shop on Thepkrasattri Rd before dawn yesterday (Sept 17).

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1057694-man-found-hanged-beside-phuket’s-busiest-road/

 

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Body found in Chao Phraya likely that of missing Parliament official

By The Nation

 

A decomposed body found in the Chao Phraya River in Nonthaburi on Monday is believed to be that of a Parliament official seen jumping from Rama IV Bridge last month.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1057695-body-found-in-chao-phraya-likely-that-of-missing-parliament-official/

 

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Fans face probe after leaking on FB their meeting with Korean star

By The Nation

 

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Her dream of meeting and shaking hands with her South Korean idol may have come true but an indiscrete revelation of how she had accomplished the feat on her Facebook page has landed the fan in a soup and could end in her being jailed.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1057696-fans-face-probe-after-leaking-on-fb-their-meeting-with-korean-star/

 

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Voice TV suspends 2 commentators, says NBTC forced it

By Pravit Rojanaphruk, Senior Staff Writer

 

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Sirote Klampaiboon in a Friday episode of Wake Up News.

 

BANGKOK — Voice TV said on Monday it would suspend two prominent news commentators from a morning program for a month after citing pressures by the national telecommunications commission.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1057697-voice-tv-suspends-2-commentators-says-nbtc-forced-it/

 

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FEATURE-Bangkok street vendors: from Michelin star to fighting eviction

By Rina Chandran, Thomson Reuters Foundation

 

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BANGKOK, Sept 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Jay Fai, a 70-year-old street food seller in Bangkok known for her crab omelettes, won a Michelin star last year at the launch of the city’s first restaurant guide, few locals were surprised.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1057698-feature-bangkok-street-vendors-from-michelin-star-to-fighting-eviction/

 

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First Look At Joaquin Phoenix In Joker

By James White

 

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Beyond the various casting stories, confirmed details about Todd Phillips' street-feel take on the origin story for the Crown Prince Of Crime, Joker, have been thin on the ground.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1057699-first-look-at-joaquin-phoenix-in-joker/

 

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Leonardo DiCaprio Apparently Saved Cargo Shorts From Extinction and Raised Over $100 Million to Save the Planet

by LENA GROSSMAN

 

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The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundationadvocates for wildlife and environmental protection to help save animals and the planet, but apparently the organization's namesake prevented something else from extinction all on his own.

 

Full Story: https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/1057700-leonardo-dicaprio-apparently-saved-cargo-shorts-from-extinction-and-raised-over-100-million-to-save-the-planet/

 

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