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A FIELD survey shows that 66.4% of poor students will lose the opportunity to study further if they do not continue getting state assistance during the current Covid-19 pandemic with 97.1% saying they intend to help others in turn if they are successful in life, PostToday reported this afternoon (3.5.2020). Asst. Prof. Dr. Noppadon Kannika,

THE first day of the easing of the alcohol ban today (3.5.2020) saw people rushing into malls and other retail outlets to buy as many bottles and cans of these drinks they could lay their hands on from early in the morning, Sanook.com reported. People pushed and shoved to grab liquor and beer without bothering

FORMER prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s youngest daughter, Paethongthan, or Ing, today (2.5.2020) confirmed that her father is not giving away 3,000 baht free cash as stated in a post widely shared on Thai social media, Sanook.com reported In the fake post there is a photo of Thaksin with adjacent text inviting people to click the

DSI police together with officials from other key agencies raided a townhouse in Thawi Wattana district today (2.5.2020) and seized 5 million baht worth of hoarded medical supplies in great demand during the current coronavirus pandemic, INN News reported. Acting on a tip off that a two-storey townhouse in this district had been used to

THE Interior Ministry confirmed today (30.4.2020) that the ban on alcohol sales will continue till May 31, 2020 pending any notification of change, PostToday reported this afternoon (30.4.2020). Interior Ministry Permanent Secretary Chatchai Phromlert, who had joined the press briefing by the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) at the Government House today, said sale

THE young woman who committed suicide after drawing a portrait of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha had developed a high fever and had also received the first of three 5,000 baht cash handouts from the government earlier this month even though she was employed with her colleagues all saying she never talked about politics, Voice TV

MAKING the rounds in the Thai online world today (29.4.2020) is a portrait of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha drawn by a young woman before committing suicide for not having enough money to buy milk for her children, Sanook.com reported. The unidentified woman had also written the lyrics of the song Klai sung by Thai musician

AN opinion survey held by Super Poll and participated by 1,551 Thais nationwide placed Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha at the top of five big names in the government for resolving the Covid-19 outbreak giving him 35.7%, INN News reported today (26.4.2020). In this survey held during April 22-25 Gen Prayut was followed by Deputy Prime

Narathiwat – Thais workers stranded in Malaysia are still keen on returning home by natural routes with 25 more caught wading across a shallow point of Sungai Kolok River this morning (26.4.2020) and although immediately rounded up by Thai officers, they thanked them for taking good care of them, PostToday reported. Early this morning Colonel Ekapol

Pathum  Thani – A landfill fire that had been controlled yesterday again flared up today after dangerous gases deep in the big dump ignited leading to thick smoke covering the area and people forced to wear masks for protection, PostToday reported. At 12.30 pm today Pathum Thani’s Deputy Governor  Chathip Rujarseri and other senior officials

Narathiwat – Rangers rounded up 33 Thais who were caught trekking through a shallow point of Sungai Kolok River from Malaysia to Thailand with the whole party being fined for illegal entry and to be quarantined for 14 days, PostToday reported this morning (24.4.2020). Three companies of rangers who had been ordered by their Task

DEMOCRAT Party members are busy searching for four swindlers identified with their initials by former prime minister and House Speaker Chuan Leekpai’s wife in a harsh expletive-ridden Instagram post which has now been removed, PostToday reported this afternoon (22.4.2020). Mrs Phakdiporn Sutcharitkul hurled curses at the four individuals in a message she shared via Instagram,

PUBLIC-SPRITED philanthropists be warned that just helping the less fortunate among us without proper supervision during the current coronavirus pandemic can land one in deep trouble to go by the case of a young woman who is facing charges for doing just that recently, Sanook.com reported today (21.4.2020). Plubplachai 2 police said they had taken

LAMENTING his bad luck was well-known “pretty” product presenter Mr Phatrakorn Kamlangsup, or Pippo TV Pool, 35, whose house in Ratttanathibet area of neighbouring Nonthaburi province was burgled for the third time on Sunday, Sanook.com reported today (20.4.2020). When police are arrived they saw clear signs of a rear window of the two-storey wooden house

ATTACKED for allegedly not realizing that people are hungry and starving was Dr Taweesilp Visanuyothin, spokesman of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, who had earlier criticised a large crowd milling around close to  each other to get donations at Wat Don Muang without leaving appropriate social distance, Sanook.com reported today (19.4.2020). Dr Taweesilp had

FOREIGN media have not let up on a false hair-raising account that a Thai had been infected by the dead body of a coronavirus patient even through the Public Health Ministry has confirmed that this is not true, Voice TV reported today (18.4.2020). ABC News website became the latest major media outlet to write about

WITH the price of imported isolation stretchers badly needed to move coronavirus patients being very high Khon Kaen Hospital has created a Thai-made one which is four to five times cheaper, PostToday reported this morning (18.4.2020) Dr Chartchai Chantraworachakul, the director of this northeastern city hospital, said such stretchers are needed to move both Covid-19

  NATIONAL police chief, Pol Gen Chakthip Chaijinda signed a regulation published by the Royal Thai Government Gazette website this morning (17.4.2020) forbidding all types of trucks from coming into Bangkok during April 18 to 30 to prevent the spread of coronavirus pandemic, according to Sanook.com. All types of trucks, four, six and 10 or

UPON seeing the success in Phuket the Public Health Ministry is now going to launch carpet, or saturation, coronavirus tests to find patients in two Bangkok districts – Klong Toey and Bang Khen, Thai News Agency reported this afternoon (16.4.2020). Dr Anupong Suchariyakul, a senior expert at the Public Health Ministry’s Department of Disease Control,

HUNDREDS of people who were refused the 5,000 baht a month coronavirus cash subsidy swarmed the Finance Ministry today (13.4.2020) to find out why they had been rejected, PostToday reported. Out of the latest total of 27 million people who had registered at the website http://www.เราไม่ทิ้งกัน.com for the cash handout to self-employed and laid-off people