{
  "id": 1917948,
  "title": "Fake residency of foreign children in Thailand spotlights widening corruption",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/fake-residency-of-foreign-children-in-thailand-spotlights-widening",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-19T10:40:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3364577/fake-residency-foreign-children-thailand-spotlights-widening-corruption"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "On paper, the small rooms inside the flats in Din Daeng, a district in Bangkok, were packed with foreign children. A total of 64 foreign children had been registered as occupants in one flat alone – an implausible listing that authorities say has exposed a wider fraud in Thailand’s house-registration system. The children were not found living there. Their names, investigators say, have been…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}