Day: May 22, 2021
More repatriation flights in June for Thai nationals in India
THE Thai embassy in New Delhi has announced that two more repatriation flights are planned in June, for Thai nationals still in India during the Covid-19 crisis. One flight is scheduled to leave from New Delhi and the other from Chennai, NNT said today (May 22). According to the embassy, on the first flight, which …
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Demonstration held to mark 7th anniversary of coup
A GROUP of demonstrators gathered around the Skywalk and the Bangkok Art and Culture Center at Pathumwan intersection this afternoon (May 22) to mark the seventh anniversary of the coup mounted by Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha, then army chief and current prime minister, Thai Rath newspaper said. Meanwhile a student union group held a symbolic performance …
Myanmar ethnic army attacks jade mining town: Media
By Reuters, published by The Straits Times Yangon – Forces of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), one of the ethnic factions opposed to Myanmar’s coup, attacked military positions at the north-western jade mining town of Hkamti today (May 22), local media reported. The attack marks an advance into new territory by the KIA at a …
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Young girl sees stepdad kill mum, stays with her body all night
AN eight-year-old girl saw her stepfather stab her mother to death and stayed with her dead body all night before altering her landlady at 6 a.m. this morning who then called the police, Sanook.com said this afternoon (May 22). The murder occured at a single-storey shophouse in Muang district of Samut Songkhram province. Within was …
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Bangkokians in a tizzy over the Indian Covid variantÂ
RESIDENTS of Bangkok are raising questions about how the Indian variant of the coronavirus, which spreads very quickly, cropped up at a workers’ camp in Lak Si district while also keeping an eye on how extensively it will spread here, Matichon newspaper said this morning. Meanwhile the Public Health Ministry said early this morning (May …
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