By Thai Newsroom Reporters AGRICULTURE & COOPERATIVES Minister Chalermchai Sri-on has pledged to promote a novel rubber industry campaign called “Sex toys Made in Thailand.” Chalermchai today (Feb.23) posted on his Facebook page to pledge solid support for the “Sex toys Made in Thailand” campaign under which sex toys will be made of natural
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Chadchart moves to check transformers after two big fires
FOLLOWING two big fires with one being at Bonkai slum community, Rama 4 road, and the other at Sampeng market yesterday where two persons died Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittiphan today (June 27) moved to get Metropolitan Electricity Authority (MEA) to check transformers across the capital while also speeding up burying cables underground, Sanook.com said.
Read moreOne dead in Sampeng market fire with shoppers fleeing in panic
ONE person died and some rescue volunteers were rushed to hospital for smoke inhalation after a big fire broke out at Sampeng market in Bangkok’s Chinatown today (June 26) with throngs of weekend shoppers fleeing in panic, Sanook.com and JS 100 Radio said. Sampheng is an historic market of Chinatown in Samphanthawong district. It
Read morePratunam market lively again as tourists flock in
AFTER suffering during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic Pratunam market has now bounced back as crowds of both Thai and foreign tourists swarm in, INN News said today (May 3). With the relaxation of Covid control measures since the beginning of May, sales at both Pratunam’s department stores such as Krung Thong Plaza
Read more20m baht damage at flooded Korat pottery market
HEAVY rain last evening led to forest runoffs gushing into well-known Baan Dan Kwian pottery market in Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat) province causing minimum 20 million baht damage, Naewna newspaper said this morning (May 17). The floodwater flowing swiftly at this village, famed for producing ceramics and pottery decorative ware and ornamental vessels, reached a
Read moreThailand’s retail market in 2021 is expected to contract by 12%
THE Thai Retailers Association (TRA) has expected Thailand’s retail market to contract by 12% this year if the government does not accelerate the provision of financial aid measures to operators as well as offer domestic consumption stimulus, NNT said today (August 8). Association vice-president Chatrchai Toungratanaphan said up to 270 billion baht in retail sales
Read moreDaily Covid tally tops 3,000 while market defends its field hospital
THE Public Health Ministry said early this morning (May 19) that there were 3,394 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours while 29 more patients died taking the death toll to 678, Amarin TV said. Meanwhile Pathum Thani province’s See Mum Muang market management explained on its Facebook page last evening that the purpose
Read moreNetizens slam setting up field hospital at a market
AS photos of a new field hospital that has been set up at a Pathum Thani market circulated today (May 18) Thai netizens immediately criticised choosing this location for a medical facility and questioned whether a better place could not be found, Sanook.com said. However the current coronavirus wave that started last month is worrisome
Read moreThailand denies coronavirus pandemic started at Chatuchak market
SENIOR Thai officials came out to deny a foreign media report that the global coronavirus pandemic may have spread from Chatuchak market before doing so from China’s Wuhan city pointing out that Thailand had for two decades now been regularly researching diseases transmitted by bats and cross species transmission, Thai Rath newspaper said this afternoon
Read morePathum Thani market Covid cluster spreads to 10 provinces
THE Public Health Ministry’s Disease Control Department said this afternoon (Feb. 18) that a cluster of coronavirus infection at Pornpat market in adjacent Pathum Thani province spread to 10 provinces during Feb. 9-16 with the number of cases jumping to 359, Siam Rath newspaper. Of the 359 cases, 332 are in Pathum Thani but the
Read moreHousing price index falls to Covid-19
THE Covid19 outbreak will lead to a fall in the price index for housing supply in Greater Bangkok in the first quarter, with discounts and campaigns still necessary to clear inventory. Real Estate Information Center (REIC) acting director-general Vichai Viratkapan said property developers need to use promotions to boost sales in the first quarter as
Read moreSamut Sakhon shrimp market lifeless as Covid-19 cases rise to 13
THE trading was sluggish at the reopened shrimp and fish market at the centre of the spreading of Covid-19 in Samut Sakhon province after the number of cases shot up to 13 this morning (Dec. 13) from seven last evening, Amarin TV reported. Samut Sakhon Governor Mr. Weerasak Wichitsangsri said all the patients were linked
Read moreHit by virus, Bangkok condo market plummets in Q2
THE NUMBER of condominiums launched in the Bangkok market dropped sharply in the second quarter with the plunge being 73.2% year-on-year and 35.6% compared to the first quarter, latest research by Knight Frank Thailand Company released today (July 21, 2020) shows. Ms. Risinee Sarikaputra, director of research and consultancy at this real estate agency, said
Read moreBangkok housing market likely to drop by 39% year-on-year
THE Greater Bangkok residential market is expected shrink by 39% year-on-year with new launches seen to bring in a total of 72,875 units compared to 118,975 units unveiled in 2019, the independent survey firm Agency for Real Estate Affairs (AREA) said today (June 18, 2020). Dr Sopon Pornchokchai, president of AREA’s Research and Appraisal Information
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