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2020

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Actress-activist gets Section 112 summons

SHARING a photo of a summons she received today (Dec. 16) is popular actress Intira Charoenpura, or Sai, with this stating that charges of violating Section 112 of the Criminal  Code, known as the lese majeste law, have been filed against her and to report to Bang Khen police station on December 21, Sanook.com reported. […]

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Local News

Vietnamese workers caught after sneaking across from Malaysia

A GROUP of 13 Vietnamese men and women who had sneaked across the border from Malaysia were arrested this afternoon (Dec. 16) at an abandoned house in Narathiwat province, Thai Rath newspaper reported. Upon being alerted by Mr. Narong Awasimae, a village headman in Pase Mat  sub-district, Su-ngai Kolok district, that some foreign workers were […]

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Local News

Young woman dies after dangling cable cuts her throat

A DAWN motorcycle ride to a market by a young woman with her boyfriend as the pillion passenger in Sikhio district of Nakhon Ratchasima province led to her death after a dangling electric cable entangled and deeply cut her throat with her boyfriend too getting injured after both fell off the bike, Thai Rath newspaper […]

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Business

Couch or cubicle? Vaccine may not lure Americans back to the office

By Reuters Staff, published by United States News Washington:  Zoom fatigue? Isolation from colleagues? A craving for lamb shawarma from the downtown food truck? Nah. Months into a pandemic that has changed work-life balance into a work-life M.C. Escher drawing – with the end of one and the beginning of the other now indistinguishable – […]

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Local News

Actor slams minister’s spacecraft to the moon plan

A MINISTER’S projection that within seven years Thailand will be able to send a spacecraft to orbit the moon was heavily criticised today (Dec.15) with one of the detractors being popular singer and actor Pharunyoo “Tack” Rojanawuthitham who pointed out that this would be a very improper use of national budget which should first be […]

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Health

Charges being filed against Tachileik coronavirus spreaders

POLICE are moving to prosecute Thais who sneaked across the border after working at 1G1 Hotel in Myanmar’s Tachileik town and spreading Covid-19 infection in Chiang Rai and several other provinces with Mae Sai district police having already rounded up 10 of those who have recovered, Amarin TV reported today (Dec. 15). Acting on the […]

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World News

Google’s YouTube, Gmail recover after global outage

By Reuters Staff and published by Yahoo! News GOOGLE services, including YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive, were restored for most users today (Dec. 14), following a global outage that affected thousands. Google’s website that logs outages said the services that were affected for nearly an hour should be restored for most users. The company has […]

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Local News

Drug-crazed jobless man held for slashing delivery woman

AN unemployed man who was high on drugs when he was arrested today (Dec. 14) for slashing of the arm of a GrabFood delivery woman in Udon Thani province last Saturday confessed to having done so to vent his anger after being cheated by an online company which did not send the goods he had […]

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Health

Stong online drive to save Big Mountain festival organizer

THE DRAMA over last weekend’s Big Mountain music festival in Nakhon Ratchasima province has not ended with there being viral tweets and retweets to save the organizer who now faces charges after defying the provincial governor and not scrapping Sunday evening’s event, Amarin TV reported today (Dec. 14). Mr. Wichian Chantaranothai, Nakhon Ratchasima’s governor, had […]

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Local News

11 students hurt as van hits tree in Lampang

POLICE and rescuers rushed to help students who got injured after their van smashed into a tree in northern Lampang province at 6 a.m. this morning (Dec. 14) as they were returning to Chiang Mai city from an excursion to Nakhon Ratchasima province, Sanook.com reported. The accident occurred at Na Sang sub-district, Ko Kha district […]

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