PROTESTERS have started gathering on the sidewalk in front of the Central World shopping complex this evening (Feb. 23) with this rally organised by an anonymous group and Thammasat Alliance and Rally, Sanook.com said. The demonstrators want to show their anger over alleged corruption and intervention in police circles as they said it is connections
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Covid restrictions eased in Bangkok from today
BANGKOK Metropolitan Authority (BMA) relaxed coronavirus restrictions for four types of venues among them are restaurants, pubs, gyms and banquet halls starting today (Feb. 23), Siam Rath newspaper said. BMA’s spokesman Pol. Lt. Col. Pongsakorn Khwanmuang said Bangkok Governor Pol. Maj. Gen. Asawin Kwanmuang issued the relaxation order after the Bangkok Communicable Diseases Committee agreed
Read morePoliceman fires warning shot at foreigner, badly injures noodle vendor
A DRUNK policeman pulled out his pistol and fired a warning shot to threaten a foreigner in front of a well-known nightclub at Patong beach in Phuket then fired two shots at a young noodle vendor who had stepped in to help, Thai Rath newspaper said today (Feb. 23). The shooting occurred just before dawn
Read moreToday’s Covit count again below a hundred
THAILAND’S daily coronavirus tally was below a hundred for the fourth day in a row reaching 95 today (Feb. 23) taking the total cumulative confirmed cases to 25,599, Sanook.com said. The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration’s (CCSA’s) assistant spokeswoman Dr. Phanprapha Yongtrakul said at noon that of the total Covid cases 24,446 have recovered while
Read moreHalf a million dead in US, confirming virus’s tragic reach
By Adam Geller, AP, published US News & World Report FOR weeks after Cindy Pollock began planting tiny flags across her yard — one for each of the more than 1,800 Idahoans killed by Covid-19 — the toll was mostly a number. Until two women she had never met rang her doorbell in tears,
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