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PM sets 2-month deadline to send Thai workers to Saudi Arabia

UPON returning from a visit to Saudi Arabia as a guest of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud Prime Minister Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha today (Jan. 27) ordered the Labour Ministry to expedite the recruitment of Thai workers to go work there setting a two-month deadline for concrete results, Naewna newspaper said. Mr. Thanakorn

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Big hopes pinned on Prayut’s visit to Saudi Arabia next week

THE official announcement today (Jan. 23) that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha will be visiting Saudi Arabia on Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 25-26, immediately attracted attention both in Thailand and the world stage because relations between the two countries have been at a standstill for over three decades, Matichon newspaper said. Ties between the two countries

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Health

6 Thai students returning from Saudi Arabia infected with coronavirus

OFFICIALS manning the Padang Besar checkpoint at Sadao district of southern Songkhla province found six Thai students returning from Saudi Arabia to have been infected with Covid-19 and quickly rushed them to the hospital, Naewna newspaper reported this morning (27.5.2020). All six students are from southern provinces, and aside from two from Songkhla itself, one

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