THE Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has lifted restrictions on dining in non-air-conditioned restaurants and increased the maximum seating limit in air-conditioned venues from today June 21, NNT said. According to the latest BMA order, signed by Bangkok governor Aswin Kwanmuang, non-air conditioned restaurants may operate at 100% capacity, while air-conditioned venues are allowed to occupy
Month: June 2021
Construction of giant Buddha statue visible across Bangkok nearly complete
By Reuters Staff, published by US News & World Report A TEMPLE building a 69-metre-tall (230 ft) Buddha statue that will be visible across Bangkok said construction was nearly complete but its opening may be pushed back to 2022 due to delays caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The Royal Wat Paknam Phasi Charoen temple on
Read more10m baht house starts leaking during rainfall
A FACEBOOK user posted a video clip (attached below) showing rainwater pouring down the ceiling of a second-hand house he bought for 10 million baht with this occurring even though he had hired a technician to check it before the transaction, TV Channel 7 said this afternoon (June 21). Writing under the name
Read moreFour new Covid clusters found in Bangkok, Samut Prakan
THE Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said this afternoon (June 21) that four new coronavirus clusters have emerged in Bangkok and adjacent Samut Prakan province amid 3,175 new cases over the past 24 hours and 29 fatalities, Siam Rath newspaper said. CCSA’s assistant spokeswoman Dr. Apisamai Srirangsan said the one new cluster in
Read moreProgress made in salvaging cargo ship, tugboat beached at Phang Nga island
A LARGE crane vessel managed to slightly shift a cargo ship that ran aground in the shallow part of a beach at Koh Phra Thong island off Phang Nga coast on June 7 after removing 30 containers with a tugboat that came to its rescue also stuck there, Amarin TV said this morning (June
Read morePope joins Myanmar bishops’ appeal for humanitarian corridors
By Reuters Staff, published by Channel NewsAsia Vatican City – Pope Francis today (Jun 20) appealed to Myanmar’s military leaders to allow aid to reach displaced, hungry people who have fled fighting since the Feb 1 coup and to respect religious sites as places of sanctuary. Speaking at his Sunday blessing to crowds in
Read moreCall to ban import of low-priced shrimp from Ecuador
THE Thai Marine Shrimp Farmers Association today (June 20) urged the Department of Fisheries to ban the import of low-priced shrimps from Ecuador which is now affecting Thai shrimp farmers, Sanook.com said this afternoon (June 20). Mr. Somchai Rerkpokee, the association’s president, said he has heard foreign shrimp are being sold to local consumers
Read moreFamily searches for owner of vehicle left overturned at fence for months
A YOUNG Man posted an online message that he is looking for the owner of a pickup truck that has remained overturned at the fence of his relative’s house for months now after zooming across and turning turtle, Sanook.com said today (June 20). Writing on a Facebook page under the name Bird Klong Yai,
Read more10 provinces have over a hundred Covid cases today, up from 5
THE number of provinces with over a hundred coronavirus cases rose to 10 today (June 20) from five yesterday amid 3,682 new cases of infection and 20 fatalities which took the overall death toll to 1,629 since the start of the pandemic and 1,535 in the current wave that started on April 1, TV
Read morePfizer-BioNTech shots ‘have stronger antibody response than Sinovac’
By Reuters, Bloomberg and published by The Straits Times Hong Kong – People who are vaccinated against Covid-19 with Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine were found to have “substantially higher” levels of antibodies than those who received Sinovac’s jab, the South China Morning Post reported today (June 19), citing a Hong Kong study. Some who received the Sinovac
Read moreMyanmar protesters wear flowers to mark Aung San Suu Kyi’s birthday
By AFP and published by Channel NewsAsia Yangon – Anti-coup protesters in Myanmar donned flowers in their hair today (June 19) to mark the birthday of ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who remains under house arrest and is due to face court again next week. Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected government was overthrown
Read moreDurian with misspelled genus name sells like hot cakes
By Thai Newsroom Reporters NO LESS THAN A TONNE of fresh durian put on a roadside vending stall in a downtown area of Nonthaburi has always been sold out over a weekend. It is not the taste, smell or price of the durian which may have attracted many customers to Ritthirong Meesee’s vending stall. It
Read moreCovid still surging in Bangkok, vicinity with daily count of 2,209
BANGKOK and its five neighbouring provinces are still badly hit by the second coronavirus wave which started in April logging 2,209 cases and 26 fatalities over the past 24 hours amid a national tally of 3,667 cases and 32 deaths, Siam Rath newspaper said this morning (June 19). The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration
Read moreVirtual real estate plot sells for close to US$1 million
By Channel NewsAsia London – A patch of virtual land in the blockchain-based online world Decentraland sold for more than US$900,000 yesterday (June 17), in a record purchase for the platform, the Decentraland Foundation said. In Decentraland, ownership of virtual land is bought and sold in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). An NFT is
Read moreMove to reopen Koh Samui, Koh Phangan and Koh Tao on July 15
PRIME Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, as head of the the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) executive committee, took up a proposal to reopen Koh Samui, Koh Phangan and Koh Tao islands to tourism on July 15 just days after Phuket does so on July 1 at a teleconference joined by senior officials from Surat Thani
Read moreAll schools in Chainat shut again to prevent Covid infection
SCHOOLS in Chainat province started shutting down this morning (June 18) after it was found that a number of parents had got infected with coronavirus after having worked in high-risk areas and then visiting the children in schools thus risking the spread of infection in their premises, Sanook.com said. Teaching in this province will now
Read moreOver a tonne of Ice, heroin seized near Malaysian border
THE Thai Maritime Enforcement Command Centre and police in southern Satun province that borders Malaysia seized around 1,100 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine (Ice) and heroin hidden at Tam Malang mangrove canal in Mueang district yesterday (June 17), Amarin TV said this morning. Officials believe that the drug traffickers had stored it there for further
Read moreCovid fear grips Parliament after part-time worker gets infected
FEAR spread among Parliament officials and employees after a part-time worker was found to have been infected with coronavirus today (June 17) despite tight screening, Siam Rath newspaper said. Those entering the Parliament have to fill out details in an application stating their coronavirus status and that they have at least received one Covid
Read moreEngineer who killed a youth in double parking row escapes jail
THE Chon Buri Supreme Court today (June 17) granted a reprieve from a jail term of three years and four months to an engineer who had shot dead a youth in a row over double parking in February 2017, Sanook.com, Siam Rath and Thai Rath newspapers said. The defendant, Mr. Suthep Phochonsomboon, 56, or
Read moreGrowing guava trees in rice-farming neighbourhood
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PAKORN PICHITTHACHAI had long taken pride in the rice which he had only produced to feed fellow villagers of Baan Phaeo district of Samut Sakhon where most rely on fishery, seafood processing industry and other types of manufacturing industry. Not until the last few years had he turned to cultivating
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