Rungroj Boonprakob, 48, a municipal health official, is taken for a re-enactment of the robbery of a Krungthai Bank branch in Bang Pakong district on Saturday following his arrest on Friday. (Photo by Sonthanaporn Inchan) CHACHOENGSAO: Police say the director of a municipal health office in Bang Pakong district has admitted robbing a Krungthai Bank…
HAIKOU (WASHINGTON POST) – China is drafting a proposal to allow gambling on Hainan Island, people familiar with the talks said, in what would be an unprecedented move that could reshape gaming in China’s territories and transform the economy of a strategic southern province. Government agencies under a party reform group headed by President Xi…
PARAMUS, N.J. (CBSNewYork) One Bronx native has a warning for football fans who may try to wipe out their gambling debt on Super Bowl Sunday. Frank began betting as a 10-year-old boy. Thirty years later with a wife, two kids and a house in the suburbs he was down $100,000 for the 1998 NFL season.…
For over 50 years a family little-known in Sydney society has controlled legal gambling in Tasmania. All of it. Every single gaming machine in the state is theirs. The Keno is theirs. They own one of the two casinos and a controlling stake in the other. By one calculation, 70¢ of every dollar lost by…
It has been one of the worst kept secrets in the gambling world: prominent real estate figure John McGrath has a $16.2 million gambling debt to the Tom Waterhouse- run betting company William Hill Australia. This would be the biggest debt ever in gambling history by a single person to a single company in Australia,…
Mount Holly native David Childers will pay a visit to the White Horse Black Mountain at 8 p.m. on Friday to sing his country/folk-flavored original songs along with bass and lead guitar accompaniment supplied by the Serpents Trio. The opener will be Morgan Geer, leader and core member of the noirish alt-country band Drunken…
Therdsak Onsing, 40, who worked at the Wat Sing Post Office, was found dead in a storage building near his house in Tambon Makham Thao, Wat Sing district, at 8.30am. Therdsaks father, Boonsong Onsing, found him sitting in a chair with a gunshot wound to the right temple and a homemade .38 revolver nearby.…
China is drafting a proposal to allow gambling on Hainan Island, people familiar with the talks said, in what would be an unprecedented move that could reshape gaming in Chinas territories and transform the economy of a strategic southern province. Government agencies under a party reform group headed by President Xi Jinping are considering allowing…
Therdsak Onsing, 40, who worked at the Wat Sing Post Office, was found dead in a storage building near his house in Tambon Makham Thao, Wat Sing district, at 8.30am. Therdsaks father, Boonsong Onsing, found him sitting in a chair with a gunshot wound to the right temple and a homemade .38 revolver nearby.…
A Natrona County resident will face trial on charges he forged checks for nearly $20,000 from his elderly mother-in-law while her husband was dying. Roy Davis waived his preliminary hearing before Natrona County Circuit Court Judge Brian Christensen on Thursday, and he will have his arraignment in District Court probably in a few weeks. Davis…
