Firefighters battling huge blaze at plastics warehouse
FIREFIGHTERS are still trying to fully extinguish a massive fire that broke out a plastics warehouse in Sai Mai area of Bangkok at 3.47 p.m. today (May 16), TV Channel 7 said. Thick, dark plumes of toxic smoke rose into the sky as fierce flames shot out from N Trade Company’s warehouse at the entrance […]
Read MoreMyanmar junta attacks western town that resisted coup
By Grant Peck, AP, published by US News & World Report THE US and British embassies in Myanmar expressed concern about reports of fierce government attacks on a town in western Chin state, where the ruling junta declared martial law because of armed resistance to military rule. The fighting began around 6 a.m. Saturday […]
Read MoreOver 2,000 new Covid cases with 1,218 emerging in Bangkok
THE Public Health Ministry said this morning (May 16) the daily Covid tally dropped to 2,302, from 3,095 yesterday, but the fatalities increased to 24, from 17 the previous day, Amarin TV and Siam Rath newspaper said. The new batch of cases takes the cumulative confirmed total to 101,447 with total death toll reaching 589. […]
Read MoreCoronavirus-hit Norwegian ship anchors off Songkhla
THE Thai Maritime Enforcement Command Centre is closely watching a Norwegian-registered ship anchored off Songkhla province which has been declared a hospital at sea after six of 29 crew members were found to have been infected with Covid-19, Siam Rath newspaper said this morning (May 16). Rear Admiral Pokhrong Monthadpalin, the centre’s spokesman, said the […]
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