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  • Business NewsBangkok’s vacant land owners growing fruit and vegetables to evade vacant-land tax
    ThaigerPublished: 09:12, 18 January 2020
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    Bangkok’s vacant land owners growing fruit and vegetables to evade vacant-land tax

    A loophole in land tax around Bangkok (actually everywhere in Thailand) is having an unexpected side effect, mostly good. Many vacant property owners in Bangkok are growing fruit and vegetables to escape the newly launched tax on their undeveloped land. For example, Banana trees are now growing on an expensive piece of land near Naradhiwat-Rajanagarindra Road. To avoid the new…

  • Thailand NewsMan stung by scorpion hiding in bag of fruit | Thaiger
    Maya TaylorPublished: 09:54, 08 October 2019
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    Man stung by scorpion hiding in bag of fruit

    PHOTO: Wikiwand A Bangkok man has taken to social media to warn fruit lovers to check fruit thoroughly before eating it, after he was stung by a baby scorpion hiding in a bag of langsat fruit. Pennung Chaiyachit says he put his hand in the bag, which contained about 2 kilos of the fruit, when he felt a sharp pain…