THE total number of Covid-19 cases over the past 24 hours to this morning (Feb. 5) dropped to 586 from 809 yesterday adding up to 22,644 cumulative confirmed patients, Sanook.com said. The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration’s (CCSA’s) spokeswoman Apisamai Srisangson said of the overall cases 15,331 patients have recovered while 7,234 are still hospitalised.
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US sees new START treaty as way to engage China on arms control
By Aljazeera THE Biden administration views the New START Treaty clinched with Russia this week as the beginning of engagement on strategic issues and urges China to join the effort to reduce nuclear arms stockpiles, a US envoy has said. The United States and Russia announced on Wednesday they had extended the New START (Strategic
Read moreBiden demands Myanmar military ‘relinquish power’
By AFP and published by Channel NewsAsia (Yangon): US President Joe Biden called on Myanmar’s generals to “relinquish power” on Thursaday (Feb 4) and demanded they free civilian leaders detained in this week’s coup, as his administration said it was considering sanctions. Washington has led international condemnation of Monday’s putsch, which saw democratic leaders including
Read moreStriking pans to protest Myanmar’s military coup
By TNR Special Correspondent and Aljazeera Myanmar update: A deafening demonstration broke out in Yangon shortly before the 8 p.m. curfew last night (Feb. 3) with angry protesters loudly showing their resistance to the coup mounted on Monday. TNR’s special correspondent based in the Myanmar capital saw with his own eyes that people were shouting
Read morePM’s free money for workers
Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has given the green-light for handouts to ease the financial plight of employees under the social security system. The scheme will cost the government about 40 billion baht. The beneficiaries will be about nine million employees of private firms who are covered by Section 33 of the Social Security Act
Read moreThais brace for vaccine jabs this month
Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health has expressed its confidence that two Covid-19 vaccines from the UK and China would arrive later this month as scheduled, despite the EU’s order to suspend AstraZeneca’s vaccine shipments outside its territory. The ministry has hastened its original plan to receive the vaccine by the middle of the month following
Read moreTokyo Olympics 2021: Singing banned at ‘COVID Games’
Singing and chanting will be banned at this year’s rescheduled Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics as part of a series of drastic rule changes to try and ensure the Games can go ahead safely during the global pandemic. Instead of yelling, anyone who attends the Games — including athletes — will be under strict orders to limit any
Read moreChina’s Tianwen-1 Mars mission on track
(Beijing) – China’s first fully homegrown Mars mission is on its way to the Red Planet. The Tianwen-1 mission launched atop a Long March 5 rocket from Hainan Island’s Wenchang Satellite Launch Centre will reach Mars later this month. Tianwen-1 consists of an orbiter and a lander/rover duo, a combination of craft that had never before
Read moreEbabies: More kids will be born to couples who met online by 2038
The future of dating is changing and it is expected to trigger a surprising trend among new parents and newborns. Children born to parents who met online will be the majority within the next 18 years. With the future of dating shifting online, researchers are predicting a rapid rise in “ebabies” – infants born to
Read moreBedroom problem most men will experience
After 15 years of marriage, a husband’s massive problem in the bedroom is causing major issues with the couple’s sex life. Welcome to Relationship Rehab, TNR’s weekly column solving all your romantic problems, no holds barred. This week, our resident sexologist Molly Boonyawong tackles a husband’s erection issues, a girlfriend who prefers her boyfriend
Read moreKremlin stands by police crackdown
MOSCOW: The Kremlin has defended its crackdown on protesters demanding the release of opposition figure Alexei Navalny as his allies vowed to continue putting pressure on the authorities. Protest monitors said that more than 10,000 people have been detained at recent nationwide rallies in support of President Vladimir Putin’s loudest critic, who was handed
Read more‘High’ command under fire over ganja issue
Army chief Gen Narongphan Jitkaewtae said the 1st Army Region has been asked to explain alleged assaults on conscripts caught smoking marijuana in their barracks in Chon Buri. The conscripts complained they were beaten by their instructors last Friday. Two came forward to lodge a police complaint. They said five conscripts were accused of smoking
Read moreBank of Thailand to cut growth forecast
The Bank of Thailand is expected to lower its 3.2% growth forecast for Thailand this year against the backdrop of increasing downside risks stemming from the persistent Covid-19 outbreak. The economy is expected “to expand somewhat lower than the previous forecast”, said MPC secretary Titanun Mallikamas, even though the central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)
Read moreMyanmar army chief says coup was “inevitable”
(Yangon) – Army chief Min Aung Hlaing appointed himself head of a new cabinet stacked with former and current generals, justifying his coup as the “inevitable” result of civilian leaders’ failure to heed the army’s fraud warnings. The military declared a one-year state of emergency and said it would hold new elections once their allegations
Read moreAngry protesters break curfew to vent anger at Myanmar military
By TNR Special Correspondent AT around 8.30 p.m. tonight (Feb. 3) in Yangon (9 p.m. in Thailand) a defending demonstration took place on one of main streets with the protesters breaking the curfew that started half an hour earlier at 8 p.m. TNR’s special correspondent based in the Myanmar capital saw with his own eyes
Read moreTWO STRIKES: Patients could catch TWO Covid strains at once
By Vanessa Chalmers, The Sun PATIENTS could catch two Covid strains at once, scientists say, after reports of dual infection from Brazil. And it could lead to even more new variants evolving, with abilities to dodge vaccines and spread easier. Amid growing concern of new variants popping up globally, doctors said they were the first
Read moreAung San Suu Kyi charged with breaching import-export laws
By Tan Hui Yee, The Straits Times Myanmar’s military government has filed criminal charges against civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi for breaches of import-export laws, according to a police document. She has been remanded in detention until Feb 15, the document said. It said the military had raided her home and found hand-held radios
Read moreFeature: The original lychee of Samut Songkhram
By Out-crowd NO LESS than 2,400 tons of lychee, a distinctive cash crop of Samut Songkhram province, Thailand’s smallest, are due for harvest and sales at a good price for farmers in the upcoming April. The lychee farmers of Ampawa and Bang Khonthi districts of Samut Songkhram have been eagerly prepared for the harvesting of
Read moreThai household debt likely to climb further
(Bloomberg News) – Thailand’s household debt, already among the highest in emerging Asia, is expected to rise further as a fresh Covid19 outbreak curbs incomes, weighing on consumer spending and heightening financial-stability risks. Household debt stood at 13.8 trillion baht, or 87% of gross domestic product, at the end of September 2020, up from 79% a
Read moreThe Story Behind the Myanmar Coup
Myanmar’s decade-long experiment in conditional democracy just ended in a textbook example of a coup — a coup that was a pre-emptive strike. David Scott Mathieson reports In the early hours of Monday, as the new national Parliament was scheduled to convene for its first session, the military, known as the Tatmadaw, announced that it
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