Month: June 2020
Pattaya slashes prices to draw Thai tourists
By Thai Newsroom Reporters HOTELS, RESTAURANTS and spa parlours in Pattaya will offer a 50% price cut for Thai visitors as part of a concerted plan to promote the beach resort city’s tourist industry. Pinnart Charoenphon, director of the Tourism Authority of Thailand’s Pattaya branch office, confirmed today (June 19) more than 100 hotels, restaurants …
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Much-loved planetarium reopening tomorrow
By Peeranut P., Sanook.com GOOD news for children and astronomy buffs, the Bangkok Science Museum and Planetarium is reopening tomorrow (June 20) after being shut for a long spell due to the coronavirus outbreak, Sanook.com reported. However the reopening will be under the New Normal structure with there being strict measures in place to prevent …
Chinese firms to lose India business in Railways, telecom
AS TENSIONS run high in India after the violent clash in Ladakh that left 20 Indian soldiers dead, a first set of actions have been initiated against Chinese businesses in the country, Indian Express reported today (June 18, 2020). A Chinese engineering major is set to lose a significant contract with the Indian Railways, and …
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Bangkok housing market likely to drop by 39% year-on-year
THE Greater Bangkok residential market is expected shrink by 39% year-on-year with new launches seen to bring in a total of 72,875 units compared to 118,975 units unveiled in 2019, the independent survey firm Agency for Real Estate Affairs (AREA) said today (June 18, 2020). Dr Sopon Pornchokchai, president of AREA’s Research and Appraisal Information …
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Police bust network selling firearms online
CRIME Suppression Department’s Hanuman unit mounted raids in Bangkok and various other provinces to smash an illegal online firearm trade network but initially only revealed the arrest of the administrator with other details withheld for now, PostToday reported this morning (June 18). At 6 a.m.this morning CSD chief Pol Maj Gen Jiraphop Phuridech sent out …
Police bust network selling firearms online
CRIME Suppression Department’s Hanuman unit mounted raids in Bangkok and various other provinces to smash an illegal online firearm trade network but initially only revealed the arrest of the administrator with other details withheld for now, PostToday reported this morning (June 18). At 6 a.m.this morning CSD chief Pol Maj Gen Jiraphop Phuridech sent out …
Chinese, Myanmar and Thai online gamblers nabbed at border town
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A LARGE HORDE OF 180 Chinese, Myanmar and Thai nationals were arrested yesterday (June 17) on charges of gambling online at a newly-built hotel in the Thai-Myanmar border district of Mae Sot, police said. The police and other authorities raided the hotel in downtown Mae Sot, arrested the 180 suspected gamblers …
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Modi: sacrifice of Indian soldiers will not go in vain
By The Dispatch, Indian Express Jammu: In his first remarks on the violent faceoff with Chinese troops in the Galwan valley of Ladakh, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today (June 17) said the sacrifices of soldiers along the border “will not go in vain”. The Prime Minister has called for an all-party meeting at 5 …
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Swedish man facing B100 million civil case caught in Chiang Mai
A SWEDISH man who fled a civil court case filed by a South Korean man who is claiming 100 million baht damages for a genital injury that occurred during a tandem paramotor ride in Chiang Mai was captured in this northern city today (June 17), Naewna newspaper reported. Immigration Bureau chief Pol Lt Gen Sompong …
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Lampang by-election hots up with move to transfer district chief
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THAI LIBERAL Party leader Seripisut Temiyavej has insisted a chief district officer of Lampang be immediately transferred for allegedly canvassing for a certain candidate in the upcoming Saturday’s by-election in the northern province. Chief district officer Naretvarit Ubonsri was alleged by a group of local villagers of unduly helping Wattana Sitthiwang, …
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Grounded and masked plane being turned into a restaurant
ATTRACTING a lot of attention is a masked decommissioned Airbus 330-300 parked off Mittraphab road in Nakhon Ratchasima province with the owner renovating the interior to turn it into a coffee shop and restaurant, PostToday reported this morning (June 17, 2020). Mr Sirikorn Phimpharat, 33, manager of Airways Land Sida shop, in this northeastern province’s …
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Three Indian soldiers killed in clashes along border with China in the Himalayas
(CNN)Three Indian soldiers were killed during a “violent face-off” with Chinese troops along the countries’ de facto border in the Himalayas late Monday (June 15), the Indian army said in a statement. The incident occurred during a “deescalation process” underway in the Galwan Valley in the disputed Aksai Chin-Ladakh area, where a large troop build …
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Fake cop nabbed for swindling people via Line app
A YOUNG man was arrested today (June 16) for pretending to be the Commander of Crime Suppression Division (CSD) to defraud the public by claiming he would speed up cases, INN News reported this afternoon. Pol Col Montri Thetkhan, CSD’s deputy commander, said division commander Pol Maj Gen Jiraphop Phuridet had filed complaints against the …
Villagers file complaint against chief for taking sides in by-election
By Thai Newsroom Reporters A CHIEF DISTRICT OFFICER of Lampang has been accused of failing to remain politically neutral toward an approaching by-election for an MP of the northern province. A written complaint was yesterday (June 15) submitted by an undisclosed group of villagers to police in Serm Ngarm district alleging the chief district officer …
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ANALYSIS: Prawit’s end goal – premiership
By Out-crowd LIKE IT OR NOT, Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwan is largely expected to take the helm of the ruling Palang Pracharath Party once and for all. His end goal – the premiership. Despite his poor health and negative image involving his ”borrowed” luxury watches, the deputy premier is already looking far beyond the …
Europe reopens many borders but not to Americans nor Asians
By Associated Press, published by South China Morning Post EUROPE is taking a big step toward a new normality as many countries open borders to fellow Europeans after three months of coronavirus lockdowns – but even though Europeans love their summer holidays, it is not clear how many are ready to travel again. Tourists from …
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Small boy accidentally shoots, kills himself
A THREE-YEAR-OLD boy accidentally fired a shot while playing with his father’s revolver and died on the spot just before noon today (June 15), Sanook.com reported. Upon arriving at the house where the Kor (assumed name) tragically died police from Nakhon Ratchasima province’s Thong Song station saw his body on a bed with a .357 …
Small boy accidently shoots, kills himself
A THREE-YEAR-OLD boy accidentally fired a shot while playing with his father’s revolver and died on the spot just before noon today (June 15), Sanook.com reported. Upon arriving at the house where the Kor (assumed name) tragically died police from Nakhon Ratchasima province’s Thong Song station saw his body on a bed with a .357 …
Gen Prayut says foreign tourists have to submit medical certificate
PRIME Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said today (June 15) that the government is working on setting up travel bubbles in the country and foreign tourists would be required to have a medical certificate and accept this and other rules with those willing to do so to be allowed to travel here, Naewna newspaper reported. Speaking at …
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Checkpoints stay in place to monitor security despite curfew ending
METROPOLITAN Police Bureau is transforming its 88 curfew checkpoints to ones monitoring security and preventing crime now that night curfew has ended with this effective from 11 p.m. last night (June 14), INN News reported this morning. Pol Maj Gen Nitinan Petchabarom, deputy commander of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, told this online news site that …
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NASA spacecraft sends back images of stars from 4.3 billion miles away
(CNN) – From its unique vantage point 4.3 billion miles from Earth, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has captured images of nearby stars — and the stars appear to be in different positions than where we see them from Earth. This is the first time this kind of “parallax effect” has been captured using a spacecraft. …
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Teenager turns himself in after stabbing mother 12 times
A REMORSEFUL 16-year-old teenager who stabbed his mother 12 times in order to have a free and independent life surrendered to police today (June 14), Sanook.com reported. The teenager had used a knife to stab his mother, Bupkaree, a dozen times at 3 a.m. yesterday at their house in Songkhla province just 10 days after …
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