Day: May 8, 2021
Myanmar’s Karen insurgents burn another government military outpost
By AP and published by Channel NewsAsia GUERRILLA soldiers from Myanmar’s Karen ethnic minority burned down a government military outpost on Friday (May 7) after capturing it without a fight when its garrison fled, a senior Karen officer said. The position is about 15km from a larger camp that the Karen National Liberation Army stormed …
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Penguin ‘is still at Corrections Hospital’
THE Corrections Department confirmed today (May 8) that detained hunger-striking protest leader Mr. Prit Chivarak, or Penguin, is still undergoing medical treatment at the Corrections Hospital with this coming after his mother Mrs. Sureerat Chewarak said she could not contact him, Sanook.com said. Mr. Thawatchai Chaiwat, the department’s deputy chief and its spokesman, said Penguin, …
Details emerge about US citizen charged with murdering Thai wife
A US citizen charged with murdering his pregnant Thai wife was taken for a crime reenactment by Nan provincial police today (My 8), Thai Rath newspaper said. Pol. Maj. Gen. Mongkol Samphawaphol, the head of Nan police, said this case, whereby Mr Jason Matthew Balzer, 32, an American programmer, is facing charges of murdering …
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Cold storage plant in Samut Sakhon shut after 39 workers catch Covid
SAMUT SAKHON Governor Veerasak Vichitsangsri this morning (May 8) ordered the closure of a cold storage and seafood processing plant in Tha Chin subdistrict after 39 out of 69 employees got infected with coronavirus, or 56.62% of the workforce, Amarin TV said. Meanwhile the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said at 12.30 p.m. that …
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