By AP and published by Channel NewsAsia GUERRILLA soldiers from Myanmar’s Karen ethnic minority burned down a government military outpost on Friday (May 7) after capturing it without a fight when its garrison fled, a senior Karen officer said. The position is about 15km from a larger camp that the Karen National Liberation Army stormed
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Penguin ‘is still at Corrections Hospital’
THE Corrections Department confirmed today (May 8) that detained hunger-striking protest leader Mr. Prit Chivarak, or Penguin, is still undergoing medical treatment at the Corrections Hospital with this coming after his mother Mrs. Sureerat Chewarak said she could not contact him, Sanook.com said. Mr. Thawatchai Chaiwat, the department’s deputy chief and its spokesman, said Penguin,
Read moreDetails emerge about US citizen charged with murdering Thai wife
A US citizen charged with murdering his pregnant Thai wife was taken for a crime reenactment by Nan provincial police today (My 8), Thai Rath newspaper said. Pol. Maj. Gen. Mongkol Samphawaphol, the head of Nan police, said this case, whereby Mr Jason Matthew Balzer, 32, an American programmer, is facing charges of murdering
Read moreCold storage plant in Samut Sakhon shut after 39 workers catch Covid
SAMUT SAKHON Governor Veerasak Vichitsangsri this morning (May 8) ordered the closure of a cold storage and seafood processing plant in Tha Chin subdistrict after 39 out of 69 employees got infected with coronavirus, or 56.62% of the workforce, Amarin TV said. Meanwhile the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said at 12.30 p.m. that
Read moreUS citizen in Thailand charged with murdering Thai wife
By AP and published by Channel NewsAsia POLICE said today (May 7) that they have charged a United States citizen from the state of Colorado with murdering his pregnant Thai wife. Jason Matthew Balzer, 32, was interrogated today in the northern city of Nan where he had lived with Pitchaporn Kidchob, said Pol Lt Col
Read moreDoctor transforms into Spider-Man to send 3-year-old Covid patient home
A DOCTOR at Nong Bua Daeng Hospital, Chaiyaphum province, took on the role of superhero Spider-Man in sending a three-year-old boy who has recovered from coronavirus home to help with the mental healing process because hospitalised children become stressed, Thai Rath newspaper said this evening (May 7). The doctors and nurses at this hospital believe
Read moreRung: Help find Penguin, mum can’t reach him
SOUNDING an alert about detained hunger-striking protest leader Mr. Prit Chivarak, or Penguin, is another protest leader, Ms Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul, or Rung, who was released on bail last evening after his mother failed to reach him, Thai Rath newspaper said today (May 7). Rung has been continuously active on social media since her release and
Read moreBangkok hard hit with 869 daily Covid cases, 18 fatalities
OF Thailand’s 2,044 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours to this morning (May 7) 869 emerged in Bangkok with the capital also having the highest number of fatalities at 18 out of 27 nationwide, Amarin TV said The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said the 2,044 new Covid cases took the cumulative
Read moreBank of Thailand keeps key interest rate at record low
The Bank of Thailand (BoT) has kept its key interest rate unchanged, keeping it at a record low of 0.5% yesterday (May 5), as the economy struggles with a third wave of Covid-19, NNT said today. The central bank said in a statement that economic growth is likely to slow sharply due to the third
Read moreHunger-striking Thai protest leader granted bail
By AFP and published by France 24 THE Criminal Court granted bail to a prominent pro-democracy protest leader who has reportedly been on hunger strike for over a month today (May 6). Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul, more commonly known by her nickname Rung, faces nine charges of insulting the monarchy over her role in protests last
Read moreCovid vaccine ‘won’t prevent infection but is a weapon to fight it’
By Thai Newsroom Reporters QUESTIONS have arisen about the effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine in protecting people against the “double mutant” coronavirus variant that emerged in India. This issue came to the limelight after Dr Rajendra Kapila, an infectious disease expert at Rutgers University in US, died upon getting infected with the Indian strain during
Read moreSouthern pineapple to go online or go rotten
By Thai Newsroom Reporters AN ESTIMATED 30 TONNES of pineapple are currently harvested and literally put on roadside sales amidst fears that the fruit might go nowhere from a southern district of Chumphon unless it is all for trading online in the face of the current pandemic situation. Most pineapple grown by farmers in a
Read more1,911 new Covid cases and 18 additional deaths
THE Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said late this morning (May 6) that there were 1,911 new coronavirus cases during the last 24 hours, taking the cumulative confirmed total to 76,811, while 18 more fatalities raised the overall death toll to 336, Amarin TV said. Another 2,435 patients have been cured, adding up
Read morePortion of Chinese rocket expected to hit Earth Saturday, but where is a mystery
By Newsweek and published by MSN News THE Long March 5B rocket carried the main module of Tianhe, or Heavenly Harmony, China’s first permanent space station into orbit on April 29. Discarded rocket stages are usually immediately guided into a controlled demolition by friction in Earth’s atmosphere. But China’s space agency has yet to comment
Read moreTravel agencies offering Covid-19 ‘vaccine tours’ to US
By Reuters Staff, published by MSN News TRAVEL agencies in Thailand are selling coronavirus “vaccine tours” to the United States, as some wealthy Thais grow impatient awaiting mass inoculations that are still a month away amid the country’s biggest outbreak so far. The tours reflect global differences in vaccinations, with the United States and Britain
Read moreCourt says deputy minister can stay despite drug case
By AP and published by Channel NewsAsia THE CONSTITUTIONAL Court ruled today (May 5) that an influential politician and deputy agriculture minister could keep his job and continue as a lawmaker, even though he was convicted and jailed in Australia in 1994 for smuggling heroin. Under Thai law, anyone found guilty of narcotics offences is
Read moreThaksin slams vaccine policy, says some Pfizer vaccine has slipped through
WHILE former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said in a Clubhouse chat that a small amount of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has arrived in Thailand and Pfizer (Thailand) Company today (May 5) denied it has started importing its vaccine, he had also criticised the government’s vaccine policy, Sanook.com said. Thaksin said that although vaccines are not very risky,
Read moreDaily Covid count rises to 2,112, two blocks of flats in Din Daeng closed
AMID a continuing high daily coronavirus count with it reaching 2,112 this morning (May 5), and there being 15 more fatalities, the infection is now spreading heavily in Din Daeng area with two blocks of flats shut, Amarin TV said The new cases raise the cumulative confirmed total to 74,900 while the total death toll
Read more‘Blood on your hands’: Slater slams Australian PM over India travel ban
By Reuters, published by Channel NewsAsai Melbourne – Former test opener and cricket commentator Michael Slater has pilloried the Australian government over its decision to ban citizens in Covid-ravaged India from returning home, saying Prime Minister Scott Morrison has “blood” on his hands. Australian residents and citizens are banned from entering the country within
Read moreMan loses a million baht when car catches fire
A YOUNG Thai man who was driving to a bank in Pattaya to deposit one million baht this afternoon (May 4) lost it all when the seden suddenly caught fire, Thai Rath newspaper said. AT 12.30 p.m. this seaside city’s Sawang Boriboon Radio Rescue Centre was notified of a car ablaze on the inbound side
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