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Pita’s stance on Myanmar worries junta

  By The Irrawaddy MOVE FORWARD leader and prime minister candidate Pita Limjaroenrat’s stance on Myanmar has raised alarm bells with Myanmar’s junta leading to a directive being issued to regional commanders to watch the border, The Irrawaddy news website said today (June 5). Shortly after Pita was quoted by Thai TV Channel 3 as

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Move Forward-led coalition to remain intact amid electoral wrongdoing charges: Prasert

  By Thai Newsroom Reporters A MOVE FORWARD-LED coalition government will remain intact even if dozens of their MP-designates may have been involved in alleged electoral rigging or vote-buying in the May 14 election, said Pheu Thai secretary-general Prasert Chanthararuangthong today (June 4). Though an estimated 20 MP-designates who have contested the general election in

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Business

The Pita effect: craft spirits sold out

  AFTER MOVE Forward leader and candidate for prime minister Pita Limjaroenrat mentioned two brands of craft liquor at a news programme it led to these spirits produced by small-scale community-based entrepreneurs flying off the shelves, Sanook.com said last evening (June 3). A message was posted on Prachachon Beer Page (Beer People’s Page) that both

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Makkasan police station chief transferred after raids on illegal pub, karaoke bar

  FOLLOWING raids on a pub and a karaoke bar operating illegally in New Petchburi road area with the latter exclusively for Chinese tourists and some found to have taken drugs Makkasan police station chief and deputy chief were today (June 3) transferred with an investigation launched, Matichon newspaper said. Maj. Gen. Attaporn Wongsiripreeda, commander

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UFO at Ngamwongwan?

  By Amarin TV and Reuters – published by CNA GOING viral on Thai social media is a TikTok video showing a strange object flying above Ngamwongwan expressway at 7.48 a.m. yesterday morning (June 1)  with the motorist who filmed the clip while stuck in a traffic jam asking whether anyone else had seen what

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Health

Sufficient hospital beds amid Covid spike

  WITH THE number of Covid cases having increased as expected the government reassured that there are sufficient hospital beds nationwide for new patients with occupancy rate currently being 22%, Naewna newspaper said this morning (May 31). Moreover it is Bangkok and its adjacent provinces that have the highest number of Covid cases. Mr. Anucha

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