Thaksin, Yingluck in Vegas flogging hi-tech DNA gadget

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Thaksin, Yingluck in Vegas flogging hi-tech DNA gadget

By THE NATION

 

Photo from facebook: @Y.Shinawatra

 

Thailand’s sibling self-exiled former prime ministers Thaksin and Yingluck Shinawatra are at the world’s biggest tech fair in Las Vegas this week touting a gizmo in which they’ve both invested.

 

Yingluck posted photos on Facebook showing her and her elder brother at the Consumer Electronics Show continuing through Friday (January 10) in the US gambling capital.

 

Yingluck explained that they had invested in a firm that combines telecommunications technology – Thaksin’s original business line – with an innovation in DNA testing.

 

The tech enables fast and accurate DNA testing without the need for laboratory analysis, she said. It will appeal to health-conscious consumers wishing to base their diet on their DNA and reduce their reliance on medicine in disease prevention.

 

Yingluck said prototype units will soon be available for testing at a place called DNA Nudge in London’s Covent Gardens, where she unveiled the product last year.

 

 

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30380313

 

-- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2020-01-09

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[RotBenz8888]

Those 2 charlatans also made Thailand into a Las Vegas for a while.

[CharlieH]

With all the money they siphoned off, you would think they would have better things to do. Fugitives posing for the cameras ? 

[Grumpy John]

Man oh man,  she is still do-able.  I am getting bulgius copious urges just seeing her.  

[PremiumLane]

Can he do DNA checks on the unmarked graves of people he had killed during his so called war on drugs?

[LomSak27]

Extradite!! 

 

[OneMoreFarang]

5 minutes ago, Grumpy John said:

Man oh man,  she is still do-able.  I am getting bulgius copious urges just seeing her.  

I never tried SM. With her I could make an exception. ???? 

[monkfish]

19 minutes ago, CharlieH said:

With all the money they siphoned off, you would think they would have better things to do. Fugitives posing for the cameras ? 

I don't believe either were found guilty of siphoning off money even with all the trumped up charges?

Unlike this lot.
https://news.thaivisa.com/article/18865/pacc-to-probe-corruption-of-fund-for-the-destitute-in-16-more-provinces

Edited January 9, 2020 by monkfish

[JHolmesJr]

Allowing a telecoms company access to your DNA....what could possibly go wrong?

Misuse? Naaaaah...never.

 

Jesus!

Edited January 9, 2020 by JHolmesJr

[OneMoreFarang]

They should have a big sign: 

 

[CharlieH]

Just now, OneMoreFarang said:

I never tried SM. With her I could make an exception. ???? 

for 50% I'd try with HIM ! ...????????????????

[OneMoreFarang]

Just now, JHolmesJr said:

Allowing a tech company access to your DNA....what could possibly go wrong?

Misuse? Naaaaah...never.

 

Jesus!

Probably that's the business model similar to facebook.

[DLock]

Yeah, because Theranos was such a success at a similar concept.

 

Then again, I can see a lot of similarities in Elizabeth Holmes and Thaksin.

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-founder-ceo-elizabeth-holmes-life-story-bio-2018-4

[JHolmesJr]

1 minute ago, DLock said:

Yeah, because Theranos was such a success at a similar concept.

 

Then again, I can see a lot of similarities in Elizabeth Holmes and Thaksin.

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/theranos-founder-ceo-elizabeth-holmes-life-story-bio-2018-4

 

Theranos claimed to offer diagnostics....these guys aren't smart enough to think that....it's probably

something that involves flogging your dna data to companies that want to study it to see if they can create

marketing that is more intrusive and insidious. sounds dodgy as ....

[champers]

I would donate some of my DNA to Yingluck.

[Grumpy John]

 

It bares repeating: "I am getting bulgius copious urges just seeing her. " I never mentioned Thaksin! 

[evadgib]

35 minutes ago, LomSak27 said:

Extradite!! 

 

I had to read that twice...(????)

[Just Weird]

41 minutes ago, LomSak27 said:

Extradite!! 

 

You think that they live there?

[TopDeadSenter]

Looks like a repackaged golf ball finder. They did well with them in the past. One novelty machine can find golf balls, sniff for drugs, detect explosives and now analyze DNA. Amazing.

[EdrigoSalvadore]

1 hour ago, champers said:

I would donate some of my DNA to Yingluck.

I was thinking the same. I have developled a fandom for her.

[overt2016]

2 hours ago, Grumpy John said:

Man oh man,  she is still do-able.  I am getting bulgius copious urges just seeing her.  

Get off the booze then!!!!!

[DLock]

1 hour ago, EdrigoSalvadore said:

I was thinking the same. I have developled a fandom for her.

 

She is a 4 at best.

 

Raise you standards, kid.

[Matzzon]

Nice pictures! Those will be perfectly made to make Prayut and Prawit have anxiety disorder again and sky rocket their pill intake.

[metisdead]

A troll post has been removed. 

[webfact]

Thailand's fugitive ex-PM siblings tout new DNA venture at Vegas expo

 

FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra greets supporters as she arrives at the Supreme Court in Bangkok, Thailand, August 1, 2017. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/File Photo

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - They are both former prime ministers and officially Thailand's most-wanted siblings, but in exile abroad, ousted Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra and his sister Yingluck have turned to the more modest task of promoting a DNA nutrition app at a convention in Las Vegas.

 

The pair appeared on Wednesday at the Consumer Electronics Show 2020 in Vegas, an annual technology and electronics industry expo running from Jan. 7-10, to promote one of their investments.

 

They were photographed at the booth of DNANudge, a company that uses a cheek swab containing a person's DNA to recommend dietary choices, according to its website.

 

"My brother and I are here at Consumer Electronic Show 2020 (CES 2020) Las Vegas, the United States, launching our business we invested (in) and just launched in London," Yingluck said in a post on Twitter.

 

FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra speaks to Reuters during an interview in Singapore February 23, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo

 

Back home in Thailand, both had been ousted during military coups, Thaksin in 2006, and his sister in 2014.

 

The 2014 coup maker is the Southeast Asian nation's current prime minister, Prayuth Chan-ocha.

 

The pro-Thaksin Pheu Thai party is currently the largest opposition party in Thailand.

 

Thaksin, a former telecommunications tycoon, said he had been working on DNANudge with its founders for the past three years.

 

"I'm of advanced age and don't want to invest in something too big ... but we think this product can really change the world," 70-year-old Thaksin said in a video on Facebook.

 

Thaksin and Yingluck, who occasionally write posts on social media to engage their followers, are in self-exile from Thailand to avoid corruption convictions they say are politically motivated.

 

Thaksin, who was prime minister from 2001 to 2006, was found guilty of corruption in 2008. Yingluck, who is 52, was prime minister from 2011 to 2014, and was found guilty of dereliction of duty in a failed rice subsidy program.

 

(Reporting by Chayut Setboonsarng, Panarat Thepgumpanat and Patpicha Tanakasempipat; Editing by Bernadette Baum)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-01-10

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[smedly]

25 minutes ago, webfact said:

company that uses a cheek swab containing a person's DNA to recommend dietary choices

can it also identify people who are 100% corrupt

 

now that would be something useful in Thailand

[bristolgeoff]

looked it up all about what is good food for your body.what passports do they travel on and why not arrest them if everyone knows where they are.once again they are saying look at us we are free and all the money we got out of Thailand.interpol and the government just can,t be bothered to do anything it seems

[soi3eddie]

How did these two convicted criminal fugitives get a visa to enter the USA? 

[Benchod]

1 hour ago, soi3eddie said:

How did these two convicted criminal fugitives get a visa to enter the USA? 

Reportedly National Endowment for Democracy (CIA) propped them up when in power - he has super close ties to the US...

[Grumpy John]

13 hours ago, overt2016 said:

Get off the booze then!!!!!

That would be a problem as I 'Don't drink, don't smoke or lend my R's to other blokes'! ????