Day: June 30, 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 …