Local news

Fierce storm knocks down part of airport’s new building, many roads floods

THE FIERCE summer storm that raged across Bangkok from late afternoon to evening today (Apr. 18) caused the roof and a wall of a new building at Don Muang Airport to collapse while commuters are struggling to get through heavy traffic jams on many flooded roads, Sanook.com and Naewna newspaper said. The violent storm that

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Health

Academic: Yesterday’s Covid death toll third highest in the world

ISSUING another warning in a Facebook post today (Apr. 18) was Assoc. Prof. Thira Woratanarat of Chulalongkorn University’s Faculty of Medicine pointing out that yesterday’s 128 Covid deaths was the third highest in the world with this clearing showing that the situation here is still severe, Sanook.com said. The  Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA)

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