A NEW digital on-demand online marketplace named SAIJAI has launched in Thailand and is setting its sights on democratising home care in the country. Borne from a dynamic consumer behaviour shift over the past sixteen months to home-based lifestyle needs, the start-up brand is eyeing the Care From Home (CFH) marketplace, a key
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Anti-Prayut protesters in brief standoff with police outside National Police HQ
By Thai Newsroom Reporters HUNDREDS OF STREET PROTESTERS today (Aug. 17) engaged in a standoff with police outside the National Police headquarters as a massive move to press Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to step down continued. The street protesters, led by human rights activist group Thalufah (Through the Sky), briefly gathered outside the National
Read morePolice: Shots were fired but not by us
METROPOLITAN POLICE said three people were shot outside Din Daeng police station last evening (August 16) but not by policemen with two of them having been issued weapons and rubber bullets and the one photographed was Pol. Lt. Piyapong who had been issued six rubber bullets, Amarin TV and Police News said. Forensic police
Read moreDaily Covid deaths hit record high of 239
THAILAND logged a record 239 Covid-19 deaths over the past 24 to this morning (August 17) while a senior doctor pointed out that too few elderly and those with seven underlying diseases have been vaccinated so far, Siam Rath newspaper said. The Public Health Ministry said there were 20,128 new coronavirus cases in the
Read moreMan shot at protest hot spot in coma
A YOUNG MAN who was shot last evening (Aug. 16) near Din Daeng junction where clashes between protesters and police have been taking place for several days now is in coma at Rajavithi Hospital, Amarin TV and Sanook.com said this morning. Doctors said a bullet was found in the brainstem of the unidentified young
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