Bangkok Gamble

Author : Tom Crowley
Publisher : Down & Out Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Bangkok Gamble by Tom Crowley Pdf

Kidnapping, international trafficking on the dark web, bit coin blackmail by gangster police states, loan sharks, and a monk obsessed with profit and power are all in the mix. When Matt Chance is asked by a Bangkok gambling kingpin to investigate the kidnapping of his daughter he’s not interested. That is until he learns that his mentor, former Special Forces soldier John Scales, already on the case, has disappeared. On the trail, Matt confronts Jade Lee, an ex-US Army chopper pilot who joins the chase. Their attempt to rescue the girl and capture the monk in charge of the criminal cult appears to be a failure until the CIA joins the picture in the form of Matt’s older brother Rick. Offered the chance to take part in a covert operation in Macau, where the monk has fled, Matt and Jade agree to go. The risk is great, the territory unknown, but it seems the only way to rescue the girls and get the mad monk.

Author : James A. Warren
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135909000

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Gambling, the State and Society in Thailand, c.1800-1945 by James A. Warren Pdf

During the nineteenth century there was a huge increase in the level and types of gambling in Thailand. Taxes on gambling became a major source of state revenue, with the government establishing state-run lotteries and casinos in the first half of the twentieth century. Nevertheless, over the same period, a strong anti-gambling discourse emerged within the Thai elite, which sought to regulate gambling through a series of increasingly restrictive and punitive laws. By the mid-twentieth century, most forms of gambling had been made illegal, a situation that persists until today. This historical study, based on a wide variety of Thai- and English-language archival sources including government reports, legal cases and newspapers, places the criminalization of gambling in Thailand in the broader context of the country’s socio-economic transformation and the modernization of the Thai state. Particular attention is paid to how state institutions, such as the police and judiciary, and different sections of Thai society shaped and subverted the law to advance their own interests. Finally, the book compares the Thai government’s policies on gambling with those on opium use and prostitution, placing the latter in the context of an international clampdown on vice in the early twentieth century.

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
ISBN : MSU:31293201301078

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List of Officers of the Department of State, Including the List of Ministers, Consuls, and Other Diplomatic and Commercial Agents of the United States in Foreign Countries by United States. Department of State Pdf

List for March 7, 1844, is the list for September 10, 1842, amended in manuscript.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B581037

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The Directory and Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, and Etc by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Springer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1992-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349121694

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The Creation of the Modern Ministry of Finance in Siam, 1885–1910 by Ian Brown Pdf

Using Thai-language archival material, this book examines a crucial element in the dismantling of the traditional government structure and the installation of a Western-style administration - the creation of a modern Ministry of Finance.

Author : Michael Backman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230522398

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Inside Knowledge by Michael Backman Pdf

Bestselling author Michael Backman here draws upon a wealth of new examples, case studies and anecdotes to provide crucial insights into Asian business themes. This will provide a valuable guide for anybody whose business takes them into Asia and will enable readers to get to grips with Asian business and understand how Asia really works.

Author : Lauriston Sharp,Lucien M. Hanks
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501721397

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Bang Chan by Lauriston Sharp,Lucien M. Hanks Pdf

Bang Chan traces the changing cultural characteristics of a small Siamese village during the century and a quarter from its founding as a wilderness settlement outside Bangkok to its absorption into the urban spread of the Thai capital. Rich in ethnographic detail, the book sums up the major findings of a pioneering interdisciplinary research project that began in 1948. Changes in Bang Chan's social organization, technology, economy, governance, education, and religion are portrayed in the context of local and national developments.

Author : B. J. Terwiel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Thailand
ISBN : UOM:39015015488672

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Through Travellers' Eyes by B. J. Terwiel Pdf

Author : Christopher Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9749294254

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Gambling on Magic by Christopher Moore Pdf

Gambling on Magic is set in Bangkok where life is more than good for Joey Balfour, ex-patriot gambling king, former TV personality, and the current owner of the mysterious and exotic Feng Shui Flower Shop in downtown Bangkok. Then ex-chief of security arrives in Bangkok to reopen an old unsolved Las Vegas casino theft. The thief has disappeared in Thailand and the conventional wisdom has it that Balfour holds the key to tracking him down. Caught in a web of deception and betrayal, Balfour discovers that other forces - more sinister and deadly - are slowly entangling him. The stakes are high, the odds are long, and for his greatest gamble, Balfour bets his own life on winning. Set in the steamy, erotic underworld of Bangkok, Gambling On Magic is a thinking person's thriller and a brilliant literary portrait of contemporary life inside Southeast Asia's most famous city. The rogue's gallery of whacky, wonderful, and original characters will stick with you long after you finish this page-turner.

Author : Vladik Kreinovich
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031436017

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Machine Learning for Econometrics and Related Topics by Vladik Kreinovich Pdf

Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781451969429

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Thailand by International Monetary Fund Pdf

This Detailed Assessment Report focuses on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) for Thailand. The report discusses that Thailand has a legal framework in the Anti-Money Laundering Act 1999 (AMLA) around which the core elements of its AML/CFT regime are established. The AMLA criminalizes money laundering by reference to eight predicate offenses and establishes the Anti-Money Laundering Office (AMLO) as Thailand’s financial intelligence unit. It imposes some customer due diligence obligations on a wide range of financial institutions (FIs) and requires these FIs to report transactions to the AMLO.

Author : Stefan Halikowski Smith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004190481

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Creolization and Diaspora in the Portuguese Indies by Stefan Halikowski Smith Pdf

This book examines the sizeable Portuguese community in Ayutthaya, the chief river-state in Siam, during a period in which Portuguese power in the region declined. The analysis turns on the creolization and diaspora that affected this community, as well as problems with international trade, the Christian conversion process, and European rivalries.

Author : Madalina Diaconu
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789041132482

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International Trade in Gambling Services by Madalina Diaconu Pdf

The driving concept of the book's analysis, whether global or regional, is to examine the pertinent international trade regulations in services in the light of the very special nature of gambling. --

Author : Mike Atherton
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781444718751

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Gambling by Mike Atherton Pdf

Gambling is a fascinating account of gambling through history, from Greek mythology and the ancient role of lots, dice and cards, to the high profile cricket and football match throwing and 'super casinos' of today. Mike Atherton explores this controversial and captivating phenomenon and the way that many present day sports provide the most popular focus for gambling, why so many of today's sportsmen become fervent gamblers and how in some cases this has led to corruption, addiction and ruined reputations. With recent high profile incidents involving the likes of Mohammad Amir and Joey Barton, gambling in sport is a topic that remains at the top of the sporting agenda. Scandalous cases such as the Cronje and Grobbelar incidents are analysed in detail, as well as an investigation into why such a high proportion of the of the world's population have always sought out risk, and how this trend has encompassed all social classes and cultures.

Author : Beiyu Zhang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000395143

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Chinese Theatre Troupes in Southeast Asia by Beiyu Zhang Pdf

A detailed account of the cultural history of the Chinese diaspora, with a focus on the performers and audiences who were involved in the making of Chinese performing cultures in Southeast Asia. Focusing on five different kinds of theatre troupes from China and their respective travels in Singapore, Bangkok, Malaya and Hong Kong, Zhang examines their different travelling experiences and divergent cultural practices. She thus sheds light on how transnational mobility was embodied, practised and circumscribed in the course of troupes’ travelling, sojourning and interacting with diasporic communities. These troupes communicated diverse discourses and ideologies influenced by different social political movements in China, and these meanings were further altered by transmission. By unpacking multiple ways of performing Chineseness that was determined by changing time-space constructions, this volume provides valuable insight for scholars of the Chinese Diaspora, Transnational History and Performing Arts in Asia.