KLA PARTY leader Korn Chatikavanij posted a message via Facebook that he has contracted Covid-19 and revealed details of his illness while the daily count is 24,252 cases and 94 deaths, Matichon newspaper said today (Apr. 6). A breakdown of the tally shows 24,165 were domestic cases while 87 overseas arrivals tested positive taking
Month: April 2022
Video clip of couple dancing while waiting to cross Chiang Mai road goes viral
http:// A VIDEO CLIP of a young foreign couple dancing while waiting to cross Rin Kham intersection in Chiang Mai city has gone viral with the couple also getting in touch with the videographer to get the original copy, Sanook.com said this evening (Apr. 5). Facebook member Kliaojai Chaisunan had shared the clip of the
Read moreHeavy flooding in Nakhon Si Thammarat, woman and 2 kids rescued from rooftop
AFTER torrential rain for three consecutive days, all 23 districts of Nakhon Si Thammarat province were flooded today (Aprl. 5) with water overflowing from rivers and canals flooding houses, plantations, roads and bridges leaving many impassable, Naewna newspaper said. Officials were mobilised to help residents with one team rescuing a woman and her two
Read moreChaos at police station probing Tangmo Nida case as chief catches Covid
THERE was chaos at the crowded Mueang Nonthaburi police station, which is investigating the drowning of actress Pataratida Patcharawirapong, or Tangmo Nida, in Chao Phraya river during a speedboat trip in February, after the superintendent tested positive for Covid-19 via an antigen kit yesterday (Apr. 4), TV Channel 7 said. Dozens of people, including journalists
Read moreRussia to resume flights with 52 ‘friendly’ countries, Thailand likely among them
By Reuters, published by US News & World Report, and Naewna RUSSIA plans to end restrictions on flights to and from 52 countries after April 9, part of its plans to reduce measures taken to slow the spread of Covid-19, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Monday (Apr. 4). Russia plans to resume flights
Read moreVladimir Putin should face war crimes trial for Bucha massacre, Biden says
By AP, published by Global News, plus BBC US President Joe Biden today (Apr. 4) called for a war crimes trial against Russia President Vladimir Putin and said he’d seek more sanctions after reported atrocities in Ukraine. “You saw what happened in Bucha,” Biden said. He added that Putin “is a war criminal.” Biden’s
Read moreChinese-built sub without German engine could probably be cancelled: PM
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THAILAND COULD PROBABLY cancel the already-signed purchase order for a Chinese-built submarine if a specified German engine will not be installed aboard and then look to buy another one instead, said Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha today (Apr. 4). Prayut who concurrently acts as defence minister apparently downplayed criticism that the
Read moreFirst Omicron XJ case found with another likely recombinant variant case being checked
JUST a couple of days after it was revealed that a Thai man had got infected with the new Omicron subvariant XE, which is a mix of BA. 1 and BA. 2 strains, the Public Health Ministry today (Apr. 4) said another man was suspected to have been infected with the XJ subspecies with a
Read moreWoman shoots and kills engineer at Rayong construction site
THE ENGINEER supervising the expansion of a road in Rayong province was shot dead by a woman who drove up to talk to him and afterwards fled in the new sedan, Naewna newspaper said today (Apr. 4) At 10.50 a.m. Pol. Capt. Woradet Phongthong, deputy chief of Mueang Rayong police station, was alerted of the
Read moreUkraine documents alleged atrocities by retreating Russians
By AP, published by The National UKRAINIAN troops are finding brutalised bodies and widespread destruction in suburbs of the capital as Russian soldiers withdraw and Moscow focuses its attacks elsewhere. Associated Press (AP) journalists in Bucha, a small city northwest of Kyiv, saw the bodies of at least nine people in civilian clothes who
Read moreThai virologist: New Omicron variant XE looks 100% the same as BA. 2
A THAI virologist urged the public to not fear the new Omicron variant XE, a mutation of the BA.1 and BA.2 strains, any more than they do BA. 2 that has spread across the country because the two of them look a hundred percent alike, Sanook.com and Matichon newspaper said. Dr. Anan Jongkaewwattana, director
Read morePolice likely asked for additional arrest warrants in Tangmo Nida case
MUEANG Nonthaburi police station today (Apr. 3) likely asked the court to issue additional arrest warrants in the the drowning of actress Pataratida Patcharawirapong, or Tangmo Nida, during a speedboat trip in Chao Phraya river in Feb. but it was later reported that this was turned down, Naewna newspaper said. Pol Lt. Col. Samut
Read moreSome 600,000 first-time voters decisive factor in Bangkok governor election: Academic
SOME 600,000 FIRST-TIME voters of Bangkok could probably become a decisive factor in next month’s gubernatorial election, forecast a university academic today (Apr. 3). According to Chulalongkorn University political scientist Siripan Nogsuan Sawasdee, those first-time voters, all being Bangkok’s Gen X and Gen Y youngsters, would undoubtedly make a decision in an opposite direction to
Read moreAswin faces being outvoted due to Prayut’s tacit support: MP
By Thai Newsroom Reporters FORMER BANGKOK governor Aswin Kwanmuang could probably be outvoted in the May 22 gubernatorial election only because he is being unknowingly supported by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, albeit in tacit, unsolicited fashion, said a coalition MP today (Apr.2). Democrat MP Panich Vikitsreth posted on his Facebook page to comment that Aswin
Read moreLadyboy nabbed for stealing Belgian tourist’s gold necklace
LUMPINI police today (Apr. 2) arrested a transgender on the charges of stealing a gold necklace from a Belgian tourist as he was walking down Sukhumvit road earlier of this week after suddenly hugging him, Sanook.com said. Pol. Lt. Col. Naruewat Buddhawiro, deputy superintendent of this police station, said Mr. Manatnan (surname withheld), 30,
Read moreArrest warrant out for Tangmo Nida’s friend Sand
AN ARREST WARRANT has been issued for Ms. Wisapat Manomairat, or Sand, one of the five friends of actress Pataratida Patcharawirapong, or Tangmo Nida, who were with her when she drowned in Chao Phraya river during a speedboat trip in Feb., Matichon newspaper quoted Pol. Lt. Gen. Jirapat Phumchit, commissioner of Provincial Police Region 1,
Read moreMajor fire at waste recycling complex, significant damage reported
A BIG FIRE broke out at a waste recycling shop and adjacent yard where piles of waste were stacked in Thung Khru district at 8.30 p.m. last night (Apr. 1) with firemen helped by workers and neighbours taking 40 minutes to put it out, Matichon newspaper said. Upon being alerted of a fire breaking out
Read morePrayut has tacitly helped Aswin in race for Bangkok governor: Ex-Deputy PM
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PRAYUT Chan-o-cha has evidently tried to help former Bangkok governor Aswin Kwanmuang, albeit in tacit fashion, with the latter’s electoral campaign for the capital city’s top post, alleged a former deputy premier today (Apr.1). During an informal visit to a food market near Government House last Tuesday, Prayut
Read moreLawyer: Good news in Tangmo Nida case within 15 days
THE lawyer for the mother of actress Pataratida Patcharawirapong, or Tangmo Nida, who drowned in Chao Phraya river during a speedboat trip in Feb., said this evening (Apr. 1) that there will be good news about this case from seven to 15 days with some or all her five friends to be prosecuted, Amarin TV
Read morePM orders immediate hospitalisation of 608 group Covid patients
PRIME Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha today (Apr. 1) ordered all relevant departments to adjust their screening system and immediately hospitalise Covid patients from the 608 group, that is the elderly over sixty years age, those suffering from chronic diseases and young children, without waiting to see how they respond to symptomatic treatment, Naewna newspaper said.
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