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Covid cases found in all 50 Bangkok districts

  AMID a nationwide Covid count of 21,881 cases and 59 deaths today (Mar. 6) 2,147 cases were in Bangkok and spread across all 50 districts, Naewna newspaper said. However, 1,772 of Bangkok’s new batch of patients were residents of the capital with 375 coming here for treatment from other provinces while residential details of […]

Disturbed, naked foreign man rounded up at Pattaya Beach

  JUST as Thai and foreign tourists were walking and exercising on Pattaya Beach early this morning (July 29) a completely naked foreign man showed up and started shouting as he paced up and down the abutting footpath, Naewna newspaper said. At 6 a.m. Pol. Capt. Sontaya Khansap, an inspector at Pattaya City police station, […]

Defecting online: How Myanmar’s soldiers are deserting the army

  By Reha Kansara, BBC MYANMAR is engulfed by an increasingly deadly civil war, which began when the Tatmadaw – the country’s armed forces – seized power last year. Now, helped by an underground network armed with Facebook and Telegram accounts, soldiers are leaving in droves. Agne Lay – not his real name – sits […]