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Google hit with record 2.4 bn euro EU fine
Breaking News June 27, 2017 19:06

BRUSSELS - The EU hit Google with a record 2.4-billion-euro fine Tuesday for illegally favouring its shopping service in search results, in a fresh assault on US firms that risks the wrath of President Donald Trump.

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Royal funeral preparations will be ready in September, says Prayut
ASEAN+ June 27, 2017 18:02

All the preparations for the Royal funeral of His Majesty the late King Rama IX scheduled on October 26 will be ready in September, said Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Tuesday.

The latest perspective rendering of new “Bangkok Observatory Tower”, with its 459 m height making this iconic landmark. Photo from: Facebook fan page of Thailand Skyline
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The latest perspective rendering of new “Bangkok Observatory Tower”, with its 459 m height making this iconic landmark. Photo from: Facebook fan page of Thailand Skyline

Bt7.6-bn Bangkok Observation Tower exempted from bidding process
national June 27, 2017 17:40

The construction of the Bangkok Observation Tower, which will receive a Bt7.6-billion budget, will be carried out under a special procurement process.


Thai-Australian drug-smuggling operation busted
national June 27, 2017 17:32

Thai and Australian authorities joined forces in a crackdown on a transnational drugs network from which they seized 1.7 million yaba pills and 296 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine or “ice”, Office of Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) chief Sirinya Sitdhichai announced on Tuesday.

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Court upholds two-year sentence of young driver who killed three cyclists
national June 27, 2017 16:36

The Appeals Court on Tuesday upheld the primary court’s two-year imprisonment of a young woman driver who killed three cyclists when she crashed into them in Chiang Mai’s Doi Saket district in May 2015.

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