THE Bangkok Metropolitan Administration updated its list of dangerous places in the metropolis and adjacent provinces where it is easy to catch Covid with the data collected during April 19-29 and released today (May 3). The following are the 32 hotspots to avoid: Fitness First Siam Paragon, Pathumwan district; Bang Phlat market, Bang Phlat district;
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600 Covid patients waiting for hospital beds in Bangkok
THE Public Health Ministry revealed today (April 17) that there are approximately 600 coronavirus patients waiting for hospital beds at home in Bangkok with today’s 99 new cases adding to 505 pending from before, TV Channel 7 said this afternoon. They are expected to be moved to field hospitals within a day or two as
Read moreAlert issued after entertainment Covid cluster emerges
THE Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) today (April 4) warned those at high-risk of contracting coronavirus after visiting nine pubs and other entertainment venues from where a new Covid cluster has emerged to immediately contact the health officials, Siam Rath newspaper said. In his Facebook post, Pol. Capt. Pongsakorn Kwanmuang, BMA’s spokesperson, said this cluster consists
Read moreBMA will hold shopping fair to promote local products during Songkran
THE Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) will hold a shopping fair to promote local products from 50 districts of Bangkok at Ong Ang Canal in Phra Nakhon district during Songkran from April 9-14, 4-11 p.m., NNT said today (April 3). BMA’s deputy permanent secretary Wanlaya Wattanarat said more than 50 product booths will be set up
Read moreBangkok to host ‘Longboard Dance Thailand 2021’
AS skateboard riding is a very popular sport at present, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) joined hands with le coq sportif Thailand, to hold “Longboard Dance Thailand 2021,” NNT said today (March 24, 2021). BMA spokesperson, Pol. Capt. Pongsakorn Kwanmuang together with President of Thailand Longboard Freestyle Dancing Association Mr. Attarapon Ketdee and ICC International
Read moreProtesters start gathering at Ratchaprasong intersection
AS arranged by the Thammasat Alliance and Rally, a large crowd of demonstrators started assembling at Ratchaprasong intersection this evening (March 24) with more flocking in continuously, Thai Rath newspaper said. Reporters said that at 5.15 p.m.police had already closed the intersection to traffic and were maintaining tight security. The Thammasat group has arranged various
Read moreAlcohol checkpoints make a comeback – D-Day April 1
NATIONAL Police Chief Pol. Gen. Suwat Jangyodsuk today (March 23) issued an order for all police stations in Bangkok to again start setting up checkpoints from April 1 onwards, Amarin TV said. All the police stations were ordered to work out a plan on the locations of the checkpoints, the policemen who will be manning
Read moreFive Bangkok Michelin chefs honoured
By Itthi CT special to ThaiNewsroom KING in the kitchen but at home, the misses rules, concedes Chef Supaksorn ‘Ice” Jongsiri of Sorn, Bangkok’s two- Michelin star Thai restaurant. “For my favourite comfort food stor beans fried with shrimp paste over rice, I have to get it outside the house. The strong smell will draw
Read moreTruck with faulty brakes slams into expressway toll booth
A QUICK-WITTED driver who found that the brakes of the 10-wheel truck he was driving suddenly failed has be approached the Prachachuen toll plaza’s pay booth quickly veered and slammed into the automatic easy pass booth which is usually unmanned thus prevent loss of life, Sanook.com said today (Feb. 28). While Mr. Thit Thien, 52,
Read moreFire guts downtown plastic factory, four houses
A FIERCE fire that took 45 minutes to extinguish broke out at a plastic factory in Sathupradit Soi 24 around noon today (Feb. 21) completely destroying the single-storey plant and four adjacent houses but there were no fatalities, Thai Rath newspaper said. Pol. Lt. Col. Phattharaphong Wichaidit, duty officer at Phraya Krai police station, was
Read moreLoud explosion at Myanmar embassy actually a giant firecracker
THE loud blast-like sound heard in front of Myanmar embassy on Sathorn road last evening was actually a large firecracker ball wrapped in plastic that caused a low-intensity explosion but no fragments were found and also no one got injured, Thai Rath newspaper said this afternoon (Feb. 9). Metropolitan Police Bureau chief Pol Lt Gen
Read moreSamut Sakhon’s Covid total reaching 15,000, Bangkok has 17 new cases
THE Public Health Ministry said at 1 p.m. today (Feb. 7) that Samut Sakhon still has the most Covid-19 cases in the country with this reaching 14,732 from Dec. 18, 2020 to this morning when 202 new cases were added over the past 24 hours, Siam Rath newspaper said. Bangkok had 17 new cases today
Read more18 Bangkok districts Covid free for 14 days
BANGKOK Metropolitan Administration (BMA) today (Feb. 4) revealed that no Covid-19 cases have been found in 18 Bangkok districts for 14 days, Thai Rath newspaper said. BMA’s spokesman Pol. Lt. Col. Pongsakorn Kwanmuang revealed the list of the 18 districts as follows: Thawi Watthana; Nong Khaem; Thung Khru; Bang Phlat; Bang Sue; Phaya Thai; Dusit;
Read moreHaze to shroud Bangkok for a week
A haze is expected to choke the Thai capital and the upper parts of the country until Monday next week, as changing atmospheric patterns are trapping PM2.5 dust particles and transboundary pollution from Cambodia over Thailand, according to the Centre for Air Pollution Mitigation. “Bangkok and some other parts of the country are now under
Read moreBangkok tap water saltier ‘but safe for healthy folk to drink’
BANGKOK Governor Asawin Khwanmuang said today (Feb. 2) that the capital’s tap water is now saltier than before but is still safe for most people in good health to drink but small children, the elderly, sick and small pets should avoid it, Thai Rath newspaper reported. That Bangkok’s tap water has turned brackish is because
Read moreBMA imposing 20,000 baht fine on quarantine violators
BANGKOK Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is getting tough with people who violate quarantine order by imposing 20,000 baht fine on those found to have sneaked off to go to various places in the capital, Siam Rath newspaper reported this evening (Jan. 15, 2021). Bangkok Governor Asawin Kwanmuang said after a meeting of BMA’s Centre for Covid-19
Read moreWoman arrested for selling ketamine powdered milk
ACTING on a tip-off Metropolitan Police Division 2 police arrested a young woman for selling the deadly ketamine powdered milk drug that led to around seven people dying in Bangkok over the past few days, Siam Rath newspaper reported this morning (Jan. 12). The drug suppression unit police of this division were informed that a
Read moreUrgent! PM orders BMA to extend restaurant dine-in to 9 p.m.
JUST hours after Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) issued a Covid-19 regulation forbidding dining at restaurants in the capital from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. starting tomorrow, Jan. 5, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha ordered that this regulation be cancelled and the curb start after 9 p.m., Sanook.com reported late afternoon. Gen. Prayut said he had received
Read moreDine-in curb for Bangkok restaurants from tomorrow
A NEW Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) regulation bans Bangkok restaurants from serving dine-in patrons from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. starting tomorrow, Jan. 5, with only takeaway allowed as a further effort to control the spread of coronavirus in the capital, Thai Rath newspaper reported this afternoon. Pol. Capt. Pongsakorn Kwanmuang, BMA’s spokesman, said this
Read moreBangkok man who died of Covid-19 visited many pubs
THOSE who visited some pubs that a 44-year-old Bangkok man who died of Covid-19 on New Year’s Eve are urged to contact the health authorities as soon as possible, Thai Rath newspaper reported this afternoon (Jan. 3). Pol. Capt. Pongsakorn Kwanmuang, a spokesman for the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority (BMA), said in a Facebook post that
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