Day: February 3, 2021
Angry protesters break curfew to vent anger at Myanmar military
By TNR Special Correspondent AT around 8.30 p.m. tonight (Feb. 3) in Yangon (9 p.m. in Thailand) a defending demonstration took place on one of main streets with the protesters breaking the curfew that started half an hour earlier at 8 p.m. TNR’s special correspondent based in the Myanmar capital saw with his own eyes …
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TWO STRIKES: Patients could catch TWO Covid strains at once
By Vanessa Chalmers, The Sun PATIENTS could catch two Covid strains at once, scientists say, after reports of dual infection from Brazil. And it could lead to even more new variants evolving, with abilities to dodge vaccines and spread easier. Amid growing concern of new variants popping up globally, doctors said they were the first …
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Aung San Suu Kyi charged with breaching import-export laws
By Tan Hui Yee, The Straits Times Myanmar’s military government has filed criminal charges against civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi for breaches of import-export laws, according to a police document. She has been remanded in detention until Feb 15, the document said. It said the military had raided her home and found hand-held radios …
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Feature: The original lychee of Samut Songkhram
By Out-crowd NO LESS than 2,400 tons of lychee, a distinctive cash crop of Samut Songkhram province, Thailand’s smallest, are due for harvest and sales at a good price for farmers in the upcoming April. The lychee farmers of Ampawa and Bang Khonthi districts of Samut Songkhram have been eagerly prepared for the harvesting of …
Daily Covid count still high at 795
Thailand saw 795 new coronavirus cases emerge over the past 24 hours to this morning (Feb. 3) taking the cumulative confirmed cases to 21,249, Sanook.com and Siam Rath newspaper said. The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration’s (CCSA’s) spokesman Dr. Taweesilp Visanuyothin said of the total 21,249 cases, 14,001 have been cured while 7,169 are still …
Thai household debt likely to climb further
(Bloomberg News) – Thailand’s household debt, already among the highest in emerging Asia, is expected to rise further as a fresh Covid19 outbreak curbs incomes, weighing on consumer spending and heightening financial-stability risks. Household debt stood at 13.8 trillion baht, or 87% of gross domestic product, at the end of September 2020, up from 79% a …
The Story Behind the Myanmar Coup
Myanmar’s decade-long experiment in conditional democracy just ended in a textbook example of a coup — a coup that was a pre-emptive strike. David Scott Mathieson reports In the early hours of Monday, as the new national Parliament was scheduled to convene for its first session, the military, known as the Tatmadaw, announced that it …
UN calls for ban on virginity tests
The World Health Organisation and the United Nations have called for a ban on virginity tests following a civil rights campaign and media investigation. Controversial “virginity tests”, which involve intrusive and unscientific examinations, are being offered by medical clinics around Britain, according to an investigation. The test claims to determine if a woman’s hymen …
Myanmar military coup caught on camera
(Yangon) – A woman filming a fitness video unknowingly captured the insane moment an army convoy stormed towards a parliament to stage a coup in Myanmar. Click here to see the video https://youtu.be/BGroxCBcuvA Tensions in Myanmar are at an all-time high, after the country’s military seized power in an early morning coup on Monday, detaining …
PM facing grilling from 45 MPs
More than four dozen opposition MPs are queueing up to grill Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and nine cabinet ministers in the upcoming no-confidence debate, according to chief opposition whip and Pheu Thai MP Sutin Klungsang. He said the opposition parties had discussed how to allot time among them and so far about 45 MPs on …
Haze to shroud Bangkok for a week
A haze is expected to choke the Thai capital and the upper parts of the country until Monday next week, as changing atmospheric patterns are trapping PM2.5 dust particles and transboundary pollution from Cambodia over Thailand, according to the Centre for Air Pollution Mitigation. “Bangkok and some other parts of the country are now under …
Thai household debt sinks to new low
(Bloomberg News) Thailand’s household debt, already among the highest in emerging Asia, is expected to rise further as a fresh Covid19 outbreak curbs incomes, weighing on consumer spending and heightening financial-stability risks. Household debt stood at 13.8 trillion baht, or 87% of gross domestic product, at the …
Thailand tops 20,000 Covid19 cases
Another 836 cases of coronavirus infection were reported on Tuesday, bringing the confirmed caseload since the start of the pandemic a year ago to 20,618. Two more deaths were also reported, both elderly people, raising the toll to 79. The 836 new cases included 819 domestic transmissions, with 710 of those found through active testing. …