AN ACCIDENT in the middle of Phuket town led to the driver of a six-wheel truck carrying a high load of steel frames getting electrocuted and burnt after some of the frames got ensnared with live loose wires hanging down at a key intersection, Sanook.com and Ejan.co reported this morning (August 21, 2020). The accident
Month: August 2020
Airbnb announces a ‘global party ban’ for public health reasons
By CNBC AIRBNB announced today (August 20) a global ban on all parties and events at its listings for health reasons. The home-sharing platform, which made the announcement in a blog post today, said it would also introduce a property occupancy cap of 16 people. “Instituting a global ban on parties and events is in
Read morePolice ‘not taking sides, just performing their duty’
NATIONAL POLICE Chief Pol.Gen. Chakthip Chaijinda told a House of Representative committee today (August 20) that the police force is staying neutral and not taking sides while only performing its duty in arresting students, Voice TV and Sanook.com reported. Members of the House committee vetting the fiscal 2021 budget and considering the budget for the
Read moreTwo feuding ex-policemen injured in fierce gunfight
LIKE A SCENE in an action movie two former policemen, who are brothers-in-law with a long-running feud, engaged in a firefight in Petchaburi province last night (August 19) with both getting injured, one very seriously, Naewna reported today. Pol. Capt. Attawut Somchan, duty officer at Khao Yoi police station, said after examining the scene of
Read moreResidual amount of coronavirus ‘cannot infect anyone’
QUESTIONS are arising about the meaning of residual amount of coronavirus after two Thai women were found to have this low amount in their body this week and both are now under medical supervision, Sanook.com reported today (August 20, 2020) Both the women, one 34 years old and the other 35, had returned separately from
Read morePope warns rich countries against coronavirus vaccine nationalism
By Philip Pullella , Reuters & published by LiveMint.com RICH COUNTRIES should not hoard a coronavirus vaccine and should only give pandemic-related bailouts to companies committed to protecting the environment, helping the most needy and the ‘common good’, Pope Francis said today (August 19, 2020) “It would be sad if the rich are given priority
Read moreUrgent! Covid-19 patient found within the country
RAMATHIBODI Hospital confirmed this afternoon (August 19) that its respiratory system clinic had found a patient infected with Covid-19 with this person having previously cleared the 14-day state quarantine and allowed out to lead a normal life, Sanook.com said. Dr. Piyamit Srithara, dean of this hospital’s Faculty of Medicine, said the viral sharing online of
Read moreStudent demonstrators ‘can sue abusive teachers’
THE Thai Lawyers for Human Rights organization came out to support students who have been participating in an anti-dictatorship campaign by pointing out that they have to the right to sue teachers who abuse them under the Thai criminal code, Voice TV reported today (August 19, 2020). Another demonstration took place in Chiang Mai earlier
Read moreBoy, 4, severely beaten by mum, stepdad
HOSPITALIZED with two ribs and a collarbone broken and around 20 new and old wounds on his body is four-year-old Nong Ton (assumed name) with his real mother and stepfather confessing to having beaten him to make sure he turns out to be a good and smart lad, Sanook.com reported this morning (August 19, 2020).
Read morePolice move to arrest six Thammasat University students
PATHUM THANI provincial police have collected evidence to present to Thanyaburi Provincial Court to consider issuing arrest warrants against six students leaders of the August 10 rally at Thammasat University Rangsit campus on four charges, Naewna newspaper and INN News said this evening (August 18, 2020). The six student leaders are Ms. Panusaya Sitthichirawattanakul, or
Read moreTropical storm heads to China, monsoon trough coming to Thailand
THE THAI Meteorological Bureau issued a warning this afternoon (August 18) that Tropical Storm Higos will soon be making a landfall at Guangdong, China, while Hong Kong is considering issuing the No 8 typhoon signal tonight. At 4 p.m. Higos, located at latitude 21.1 degrees north and longitude 115.2 degrees east with maximum sustained winds
Read moreProsecutor chasing PM’s motorcade ‘in a hurry because of stomach upset’
A SENIOR prosecutor who chased, blared the horn and flashed emergency lights at Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s motorcade yesterday morning has told Special Branch police that he had only put the emergency lights on because he had diarrhoea, Sanook.com reported today (August 18, 2020). The senior prosecutor, who was previously director-general of the Attorney-General’s Office,
Read morePublic prosecutor’s sedan chases PM’s motorcade
AN OLD Honda Accord sedan owned by a public prosecutor chased Prime Minister’s motorcade on the expressway while he was traveling from his residence within the 1st Infantry Regiment compound to Government House yesterday morning, INN News reported today (August 18). The bluish-green Bangkok-registered sedan, driven a middle-aged man who police have already identified, chased
Read moreRussia’s vaccine chief claims the West is trying to ‘lure’ away its scientists
By Holly Ellyatt, CNBC THE HEAD of Russia’s vaccine-development body has claimed that Western research institutions are seeking to “lure” away its scientists to work for them. Alexander Gintsburg alleged that attempts to poach scientists from Russia to work in Europe and the US had not worked. Gintsburg is the head of the Gamaleya National
Read moreDroves of students join white bow anti-dictatorship campaign
By Komkrit Duangmanee, Sanook.com STUDENTS at schools across the country joined an anti-dictatorship campaign today (August 17) by sporting a white bow as a symbolic display of resistance against using state power to threaten and deprive people of freedom, Sanook.com said. This campaign is also spreading on Twitter under a Thai-language hashtag, #WhiteBowAgainstDictatorship. Female students
Read morePridi: Government not broke, situation manageable
NEW Finance Minister Pridi Daochai said today (August 17) after delivering his policy to ministry officials that the government is not broke and additional economic recovery measures will definitely be implemented, INN News said. The new minister pointed out that the entire world economy is in a decline as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic
Read moreThai villagers launch gold-digging tourism
By Thai Newsroom Reporters VILLAGERS IN A western Thai province have been eagerly inviting visitors to dig for gold in a creek, literally. The villagers in Ron Thong community in Bang Sapan district of Prachuap Khiri Khan province are not only digging for gold themselves in the creek called Klong Thong but inviting travellers and
Read moreAfter Ladakh, Nepal and Bhutan, China now claims territory In Tajikistan
By EurAsian Times RUSSIA’S sphere of influence in Tajikistan is under threat as China has now claimed a part of the Central Asian country. China’s claim over Tajikistan comes after it claimed parts of India, Bhutan, Nepal and has ongoing disputes in the South China Sea (SCS) with many nations. According to reports, an article
Read moreFree Youth group starts rally at Democracy Monument, Penguin shows up
THE rally by the Free Youth group at Democracy Monument kicked off at 2.33 p.m. this afternoon (August 16) amid tight security with demonstrators calling for Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to resign, INN News reported. The demonstrators, who insisted that their gathering was absolutely in accordance with law, said Gen. Prayut should step down to
Read moreCondo scaffolding collapse kills two Myanmar workers
THE SUDDEN collapse of a section of the scaffolding at a high-rise condominium being built in Chonburi province led to two Myanmar workers dying on the spot and two other being injured, one seriously, INN News reported today (August 16, 2020). Pol. Capt. Suchart Charoensri, an investigator at Sansuk police station in this province, rushed
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