BANGKOK Metropolitan Administration (BMA) asked for the cooperation of all venues in cancelling New Year festivities because of the rising number of Covid-19 cases in Samut Sakhon province, which adjoins the capital, with two cases having already emerged here today, Thai Rath newspaper reported late afternoon today (Dec. 20). This step was taken after the
Month: December 2020
Suspect says he killed doctor after hospital made him pay 130 not 30 baht
A YOUNG man who was arrested at a hotel in Samut Songkhram province on the charges of killing the director of King Mongkut Memorial Hospital at his clinic in Phetchaburi city yesterday has confessed that he did so because he was high on drugs and was displeased that the hospital had charged him 130 and
Read morePublic urged not to panic after big jump in Covid-19 cases, one in Bangkok
THE spokesman for the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) today (Dec. 20) urged the public not to panic after the number of Covid-19 cases shot up by 576 overnight explaining that this is not a second wave of infection but it is a new outbreak with the authorities gearing up to test over 10,000
Read morePM confident economy is recovering, welcomes Bloomberg boost
PRIME Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is pleased that Thailand topped a Bloomberg study of 17 developing markets gauging their outlook for 2021 pointing out that this is a result of various economic stimulus measures and will boost confidence in trade and investment in the new year, Siam Rath newspaper reported today (Dec. 21). The Bloomberg report,
Read moreSamut Sakhon shrimp market lifeless as Covid-19 cases rise to 13
THE trading was sluggish at the reopened shrimp and fish market at the centre of the spreading of Covid-19 in Samut Sakhon province after the number of cases shot up to 13 this morning (Dec. 13) from seven last evening, Amarin TV reported. Samut Sakhon Governor Mr. Weerasak Wichitsangsri said all the patients were linked
Read moreHospital director shot dead at his clinic in Phetchaburi city
A MAN who came in as a patient shot dead the director of King Mongkut Memorial Hospital (Phra Chom Klao Hospital) at his clinic in Phetchaburi city at 11 a.m. today (Dec. 19), Sanook.com reported. The killer, who had driven up in a white sedan, went into the clinic and was examined by Dr. Chumpol.
Read more1,000 people stuck overnight in Japan traffic jam stretching 15 kms long
By Jessie Yeung and Yoko Wakatsuki, CNN Tokyo: More than 1,000 people in Japan spent Thursday night stuck on a highway in their cars, waiting out a traffic jam with little food or water during a heavy snow storm. Reports of the traffic jam, on the Kanetsu Expressway connecting Tokyo and Niigata prefectures, began emerging
Read moreRed shirts cheer as Nattawut is freed from prison
THERE was overwhelming joy among those who had assembled outside Bangkok Remand Prison today (Dec. 18) as Mr. Nattawut Saikua, a former leader of United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship (“Red Shirts”), was set free, Amarin TV reported. Aside from his wife, Sirisakul Saikua, who is also a leader of this political pressure group, two
Read moreChinese-funded illegal finance firm raided
AN ILLEGAL online finance company located in the Rama 3 road area was raided by Economic Crime Suppression Division (ECD) Commander Pol. Maj. Gen. Maitri Chimcherd and his team today (Dec. 18) with it being discovered that funds for lending came from Chinese nationals, Siam Rath newspaper reported. In searching the company’s office which did
Read more10,000 people will likely be tested for coronavirus in new superspreading case
As many as 10,000 people may have to be tested for Covid-10 in Samut Sakhon province after a shrimp vendor at a local market contracted the deadly disease and among them will all those who had high-, medium- and low-risk exposure to this superspreader, INN News and Sanook.com reported this morning (Dec. 18, 2020). Deputy
Read moreMany people exposed to Covid-19-infected shrimp vendor
A SHRIMP vendor in Samut Sakhon province who tested positive for Covid-19 today (Dec.17) first showed symptoms of the disease last Sunday Dec. 13 but continued trading in the market with there being 18 people at high risk of exposure to the deadly disease and numerous others at the market may have also been so,
Read moreUS adds Thailand to currency manipulation watchlist
THE US Treasury Department added Thailand to its “monitoring list” of currency manipulating countries today (Dec. 17) on suspicions that the country took various steps to weaken its currency against the US dollar, South China Morning Post and Sanook.com reported. The US Treasury said its “monitoring list” of countries that meet some of the criteria
Read moreActivity held at police station to encourage 2 Section 112 suspects
THE We Volunteer (WeVo) guards held a performance in front of Yannawa police station to encourage two suspects summoned to hear charges of violating Section 112 of the Criminal Code, or lese majeste law, Thai Rath and INN News reported today (Dec. 17). It was reported that one of the two suspects is a 16-year-old
Read moreActress-activist gets Section 112 summons
SHARING a photo of a summons she received today (Dec. 16) is popular actress Intira Charoenpura, or Sai, with this stating that charges of violating Section 112 of the Criminal Code, known as the lese majeste law, have been filed against her and to report to Bang Khen police station on December 21, Sanook.com reported.
Read moreVietnamese workers caught after sneaking across from Malaysia
A GROUP of 13 Vietnamese men and women who had sneaked across the border from Malaysia were arrested this afternoon (Dec. 16) at an abandoned house in Narathiwat province, Thai Rath newspaper reported. Upon being alerted by Mr. Narong Awasimae, a village headman in Pase Mat sub-district, Su-ngai Kolok district, that some foreign workers were
Read moreYoung woman dies after dangling cable cuts her throat
A DAWN motorcycle ride to a market by a young woman with her boyfriend as the pillion passenger in Sikhio district of Nakhon Ratchasima province led to her death after a dangling electric cable entangled and deeply cut her throat with her boyfriend too getting injured after both fell off the bike, Thai Rath newspaper
Read moreCouch or cubicle? Vaccine may not lure Americans back to the office
By Reuters Staff, published by United States News Washington: Zoom fatigue? Isolation from colleagues? A craving for lamb shawarma from the downtown food truck? Nah. Months into a pandemic that has changed work-life balance into a work-life M.C. Escher drawing – with the end of one and the beginning of the other now indistinguishable –
Read moreActor slams minister’s spacecraft to the moon plan
A MINISTER’S projection that within seven years Thailand will be able to send a spacecraft to orbit the moon was heavily criticised today (Dec.15) with one of the detractors being popular singer and actor Pharunyoo “Tack” Rojanawuthitham who pointed out that this would be a very improper use of national budget which should first be
Read moreCharges being filed against Tachileik coronavirus spreaders
POLICE are moving to prosecute Thais who sneaked across the border after working at 1G1 Hotel in Myanmar’s Tachileik town and spreading Covid-19 infection in Chiang Rai and several other provinces with Mae Sai district police having already rounded up 10 of those who have recovered, Amarin TV reported today (Dec. 15). Acting on the
Read morePublic allowed to carefully hold New Year parties and events
THE Department of Disease Control said today (Dec. 15) that people may hold New Year parties and events because there is no coronavirus outbreak in Thailand but must still observe preventive measures, Sanook.com reported. Mr. Opas Karnkawinpong, the director-general of the Department of Disease Control, said key preventive measures including social distancing, wearing face masks
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