By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES today (Dec. 2) set up an extraordinary House committee to study a long-awaited launch of Thailand’s first-ever casino and entertainment complex project. The MPs cast an overwhelming 310:9 vote to approve the setting up of the 60-member extraordinary panel to study the casino and entertainment complex
Month: December 2021
PM calls urgent meeting to discuss Omicron variant
THERE will be an urgent meeting of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) executive committee presided over by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha at Government House tomorrow (Dec. 3) to discuss the Omicron variant of coronavirus that is spreading across the world from southern Africa, Thai Rath newspaper said this afternoon. Mr. Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana,
Read morePolice ordered to chase 783 tourists and bring them in for Covid test
NATIONAL Police Chief Pol. Gen. Suwat Jangyodsuk today (Dec. 1) ordered urgent tracking of 783 foreign tourists to come in for the RT-PCR Covid test and also tightened border controls to block the new Omicron variant, Amarin TV said. He had told Immigration Bureau to check how many foreign tourists came to Thailand from Nov.
Read moreNigeria says found Omicron variant from October samples
By Reuters Staff, published by Today Online Abuja – Nigeria said today (Dec. 1) it had confirmed its first cases of the Omicron Covid-19 variant, among them a sample from travellers who came to Nigeria in October, suggesting it had turned up weeks before it was reported in southern Africa. “Retrospective sequencing of the previously
Read moreMan held for assaulting, robbing Russian woman
A THAI man from Rayong province was arrested at Pattaya beach today (Dec.1) for assaulting and robbing a Russian woman tourist last Sunday (Nov. 28), TV Channel 7 said. Pol. Maj. Gen. Atthasit Kitchahan, commander of the Chonburi provincial police, said Mr. Kriengsak Klomkaew or Ped Na Lai, 42, was arrested under a Pattaya provincial
Read moreProtest leader Rung bailed out to sit for exams
GRANTED bail to take exams by two courts this afternoon (Dec. 1) was protest leader Ms. Panusaya Sitthichirawattanakul, or Rung, with this temporary release under strict conditions to end on Jan. 12, 2022, Matichon newspaper said. Mr. Krisadang Nutcharat, from the Centre for Human Rights Lawyers, said a team of lawyers had applied for bail
Read moreIntimidating jab appointment message draws flak
THAI netizens heavily criticised an intimidating message at the end of Covid jab appointment slips issued in Roi Et province that brands the recipient as a dangerous person who needs to urgently get vaccinated, Siam Rath newspaper and TV Channel 7 said this morning (Dec. 1). Mr. Pakphum Dejhassadin, a medical technologist who runs
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