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Thailand Welcomes More Than Eighteen Million International Visitors This Year

Thailand received more than eighteen point five million foreign visitors between January and early August, generating over eight hundred ninety-six billion baht in tourism revenue as resilient long-haul demand from Western Europe and strong family travel from South Korea supported the sector.
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Apple Seeks Court Order to Stop OpenAI Using Alleged Trade Secrets
Breaking With the Past: One of the World’s Smallest Countries Changes Its Name
AI Is Remaking the US Economy, From GDP Growth to iPhone Prices
Indonesia’s Free School Meals Plan Has Been Hit by Poisoning, Corruption and Cuts
US and Japan Step In to Support the Yen in Rare Joint Intervention
The AI Pricing Problem: Companies Cannot Predict Their Own Bills
Apple’s OpenAI Lawsuit Becomes a Public Fight Over AI Hardware
UK Man Jailed After Keeping His Mother’s Body in a Freezer and Claiming £78,000
A SpaceX Rocket Is About to Crash Into the Moon — and Scientists Hope to Watch
Thailand Tightens Corporate Rules to Prevent Illegal Foreign Nominee Ownership Structures
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