THE cabinet has approved slashing visa-free entry from 60 to 30 or 15 days depending on a country’s eligibility with this aimed at closing a loophole that allows foreign scammers and other gangs to slip into the country, Amarin TV said this afternoon (July 15). Ms. Ploytalay Laksmisangchan, deputy spokesperson for the Prime Minister’s
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Maternity leave draft bill sails through House
THE House of Representatives today (July 16) overwhelmingly passed the second and third readings of the draft Labour Protection Act wherein female employees are given 120-day paid maternity leave and their husbands allowed 15 days of paid leave to help take care of the new-born babies with the legislation now going to the Senate
Read moreAlcohol sale to be allowed at certain places on Buddhist holy days
THE government is moving to quickly amend the law and allow the sale of alcoholic beverages at certain places on the five key Buddhist holy days, Thai Rath newspaper said today (March 4). Deputy Prime Minister/ Minister of Digital Economy and Society Prasert Chantarawongthong, who is head of the National Alcoholic Beverage Policy Committee,
Read moreThaksin only anticipates days, not months or years, in jail upon return
By Thai Newsroom Reporters DE FACTO PHEU THAI BOSS Thaksin Shinawatra has been desperately anticipating a matter of days, not months or years, for himself being put behind bars upon returning home, according to a partisan source. Thaksin has been impatiently waiting for his party’s rank and file to run the country again so
Read moreRush to test condo residents after first Covid-19 case in hundred days
OFFICIALS at Thung Khru district quickly sprang to action today (Sept. 4) by going to the cluster of six condominium buildings where the inmate who has been found to be infected with Covid-19 lived before being jailed and lots of residents are eager to get themselves tested, Thai Rath newspaper reported. Mr. Thanachit Chutikarn, director
Read moreFirst domestic Covid-19 case after 100 days
A LOCALLY TRANSMITTED case of Covid-19 has been found in Bangkok after the country passed 100 days without any domestic transmission with the patient being a male inmate who was undergoing the first step of the detention process when the infection was discovered, Sanook.com reported this evening (Sept. 3, 2020). Speaking at an urgent press
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