Month: June 2020
Hong Kong activists to defy police ban on July 1 march
By South China Morning Post VETERAN opposition activists, including Democratic Party leader Wu Chi-wai, have announced plans to defy a police ban and organise a July 1 march to protest against the new national security law, which is expected to take effect that same day. The Tuesday announcement came just hours after Beijing’s top legislative …
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July 27 declared a special public holiday in lieu of Songkran
THE CABINET today approved Monday July 27 as a special holiday to compensate for the cancelled Songkran holidays in April leading to a four-day long weekend from July 25 to July 28, PostToday and Naewna newspapers reported this afternoon (June 30). Tuesday July 28 is already a holiday to mark His Majesty the King’s Birth …
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Rayong heavily flooded after weir breaks amid pounding rain
A SMASHED weir in Chonburi province led to heavy flooding at next-door Rayong’s Pluak Daeng district while hours-long torrential rain caused parts of Rayong Mueang district to be badly inundated, Sanook.com reported this morning (June 30, 2020). After the weir in Chonburi’s Si Racha district cracked and broke a mass of water gushed into Pluak …
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Chinese gamblers nabbed in Pattaya raid
By Thai Newsroom Reporters NINE CHINESE nationals were arrested on emergency rule-breaking and gambling charges in Pattaya last night, police said. The police raided a house in Jomtien area of the beach resort city and rounded up the poker-playing Chinese males, aged between 30 and 42 years. The Chinese nationals were charged with breaking emergency …
Money pours in to give a young girl an education
A WASTE picker’s young daughter whose photos appeared in several publications and were widely shared on social media as she walked behind him while he was pushed a cart to collect rubbish and debris to sell for a living touched so many people that almost a million baht has poured in to give her …
Thailand on EU’s ‘safe countries’ list, but decision delayed
By EURACTIV.com with AFP ALTHOUGH Thailand is on the EU’s list of “safe countries” from where travellers could visit Europe in July, the member states still cannot agree on this list and require more time to decide, EUROACTIV.com and AFP reported today (June 29, 2020). After days of talks, EU envoys on Friday agreed to …
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Green light for phase five easing of Covid-19 lockdown
THE full meeting of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) presided over by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha passed a resolution to launch phase five easing of the coronavirus lockdown today (June 29), PostToday and Thai News Agency reported. Dr Taweesilp Visanuyothin, CCSA’s spokesman, said Gen Prayut thanked officials and the public for having helped …
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Woman issues strong warning about peeping tom at pump
A FACEBOOK member by the name of “Pop Panyavee” posted a strong warning for women to be very careful when using public toilets having herself almost become a peeping tom’s victim yesterday, Naewna newspaper reported this morning (June 29). She said she had gone to use the toilet at a pump in Soi Pattanakarn 20 …
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Can you see me as I am, an Indian Chinese?
By Liu Chuen Chen, Indian Express I WAS grabbing my mask to rush to the nearby grocery store when the cellphone rang. It was my mother. I thought she would be (once again) fussing over my ‘outing’ amid the pandemic but she spoke in an extremely serious tone: “I hope you know what is happening …
Rape victim told statute of limitations has expired
THE daughter of a former police general and well-known politician was told by Phra Khanong police station today (June 28) that a rape complaint she had filed against a police captain cannot proceed because three months had passed and the statute of limitations had already legally expired, Sanook.com reported. The young woman had said in …
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Victim tells cops ‘pregnant’ girlfriend borrowed 200,000 baht and fled
A THAI man filed a complaint with Bang Phlat district police today (June 28) that his girlfriend had swindled him out of 200,000 baht and fled after fooling him that she was pregnant and her mother very sick, Sanook.com reported. Police said initial inquiry revealed that the same 37-year-old woman had swindled three other men …
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Facebook to label all rule-breaking posts – even Trump’s
By Associated Press, published by Hindustan Times FACEBOOK said on Friday (June 26) that it will flag all “newsworthy” posts from politicians that break its rules, including those from US President Donald Trump. Separately, Facebook’s stock dropped more than 8%, erasing roughly $50 billion from its market valuation, after the European company behind brands such …
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Gen Prawit elected Palang Pracharath Party leader
THE build up to Deputy Prime Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwan taking the helm of Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) ended this afternoon (June 27) when he was elected the party leader at its general assembly, INN News reported Although he was the sole nominee, he did not attend the party caucus. Also elected to key positions …
Pattaya police enforce strict controls at Tree Town fun spot
By Thai Newsroom Reporters SOCIAL DISTANCING rule was last night (June 26) strictly maintained at Tree Town night market in Pattaya as dozens of young women were spotted hanging around and looking to offer themselves in suspected flesh trade, police said. The adolescent females mingled with hundreds of other visitors, mostly being Thais, at Tree …
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Myanmar worker seriously injured after being hit by BTS train
AN accident between Surasak and Chong Nonsi stations late last night left a Myanmar construction worker critically injured after he was hit by a speeding train, Naewna newspaper reported late this morning (June 27, 2020). The 30-year-old worker was rushed to Lerdsin Hospital were the doctors later said he was out of danger. The BTS …
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‘We thought this was only a respiratory virus’
By Reuters, published by Channel NewsAsia Chicago: Scientists are only starting to grasp the vast array of health problems caused by the novel coronavirus, some of which may have lingering effects on patients and health systems for years to come, according to doctors and infectious disease experts. Besides the respiratory issues that leave patients gasping …
Khao Yai reopening on July 1, but only 5,000 visitors a day
THE popular Khao Yai National Park is gearing up to reopen again on July 1 after closure to tourism to prevent the spread of coronavirus but officials are still being very careful and limiting the number of tourists to only 5,000 a day, PostToday reported this afternoon (June 26, 2020). The number of officials has …
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Daughter shocked to find dad dead with unknown woman
A 70-YEAR-OLD man and a younger woman were found to have committed suicide together in a rented room in Chon Buri city this morning (June 26) and the man’s daughter told police she does not know who this woman is nor does she dare tell her mother what has happened, Sanook.com reported. Pol Capt Natthirut …
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FEATURE: Southeast Asian navies in race for submarines
By Out-crowd THAILAND, Vietnam, Indonesia and Singapore have stood out among all other countries in the Southeast Asian region in terms of upgraded naval firepower. They do not only have lengthy shores of the South China Sea and archipelagos but abundant natural resources such as oil, natural gas and minerals undersea. That obviously poses …
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To beat the heat, Vietnam rice farmers resort to planting at night
By Minh Nguyen for Reuters, published by US News Hanoi (Reuters) – Under a pitch-black night sky, a group of Vietnamese farmers planted rice this week in a paddy field on the outskirts of the capital Hanoi using head lamps to illuminate the water-logged ground in front of them. The farmers of the Tam Thanh …
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Hundreds of revellers brazenly pack together in Pattaya last night
BOTH Thai and foreign merrymakers totaling hundreds threw caution to the wind and gathered in a tightly-packed crowd to eat and drink alcohol at a market in front of Pattaya’s Tree Town Night Market last night without worrying about spreading or catching Covid-19 infection, Naewna newspaper reported today (June 25, 2020). At 11 p.m. last …
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Pol Gen Chakthip: Seized war weapons belonged to political group
NATIONAL Police Chief Pol Gen Chakthip Chaijinda today (June 25) confirmed that the war weapons seized from a house at the Thai-Myanmar border town of Mae Sot, Tak province, belonged to a political group and not traders as security officials had said, INN News reported. Soldiers of the Special Unit of 4th Infantry Regiment together …
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