Authorities set up checkpoints on roads outbound from Bangkok
THE Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), in cooperation with the military and the Metropolitan Police Bureau, has set up six checkpoints on the capital’s outbound roads, to prevent construction workers leaving the capital for their home provinces, NNT said today (June 30). BMA permanent secretary Silapasuay Raweesangsoon said the move is in compliance with a Centre […]
Read MoreAs Phuket reopens, small businesses feel left behind
By Reuters Staff, published by Channel NewsAsia Phuket – As Thailand’s government prepares to celebrate its reopening to foreign tourists this week, many businesses on the holiday island of Phuket aren’t so enthusiastic about the return of visitors. Phuket is a pilot programme for Thailand’s reboot of a tourism industry gutted by the Covid-19 pandemic, […]
Read MorePolice warn against Covid vaccine swindle
POLICE today (June 30) warned the public to beware of coronavirus vaccine swindle proliferating online after a complaint was filed by a man that he and his 20 friends were tricked into buying Sinopharm jabs at 1,800 baht each but in the end did not get the shots, Siam Rath newspaper said this afternoon (June […]
Read MoreThaksin to Thammanat: Don’t spend money on elections
FORMER Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra inferred in a Clubhouse chat, where he uses the alias Tony Woodsome, that controversial Deputy Agriculture Minister Thammanat Prompao was recently elected secretary-general of ruling Palang Pracharath Party because he has a lot of money to spend in the next election, Siam Rath newspaper said. Thammanat was said to have […]
Read MoreVentilators being rushed to Bangkok amid 4,786 new cases nationwide
THE Public Health Ministry is moving ventilators from across the country to Bangkok which is the severest hit in the current coronavirus wave amid an additional 4,786 cases across the country over the past 24 hours, TV Channel 7 and Siam Rath newspaper said. Meanwhile the overnight fatalities soared to 53 taking the death […]
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