Month: April 2022
Hospitals told to brace for jump in Covid patients after Songkran
PUBLIC Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has ordered all hospitals across the country to be fully prepared for an expected increase in the number of Covid patients after the Songkran festival, Sanook.com said today (Apr. 9). Hospitals have also been instructed to brace for injuries from accidents and treat other illnesses. Anutin mentioned that the government …
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EU adopts new sanctions against Russia as 50 die in station attack
By Reuters, published by US News & World Report and Cyprus Mail Brussels –The European Union on Friday (Apr. 8) formally adopted its fifth package of sanctions against Russia since the country’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine, including bans on the import of coal, wood, chemicals and other products. The measures also prevent many Russian …
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Thai-Australian joint action nets Ice hidden in old printer
A JOINT investigation by Thai Airport Interdiction Task Force (AITF) and Australian Federal Police (AFP) led to the arrest of a woman who was parcelling 989 grammes of crystal methamphetamine (Ice) hidden in a secret compartment of an old printer to Australia, TV Channel 7 said this evening (Apr. 8). Mr. Wichai Chaimongkol, secretary-general …
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Covid panel has not yet scrapped PCR test for travellers
THE Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) executive committee decided at its meeting chaired by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha today (April 8) to put off cancelling RT-PCR test and only use ATK for travellers coming to the country by Test & Go, Sandbox and Quarantine procedures, Sanook.com said. Dr. Taweesilp Visanuyothin, CCSA’s spokesman, said the …
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Prayut told to keep scandal-hit senior official out of active duty
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PRAYUT Chan-o-cha has been suggested by noted academics to suspend a senior government official involved in an attempted payoff scandal from active duty or else the former’s reputation might be considerably damaged by the latter. Chulalongkorn University political scientist Siripan Nogsuan Sawasdee yesterday (Apr. 7) advised Prayut remove Seksakol …
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Songkhla hoteliers complain border reopening has not helped
DESPITE THE Sadao immigration checkpoint in southern Songkhla province having reopened after two years on Apr.l 1 hoteliers complained today (Apr. 7) that this has not helped them because the entry barriers and cost to their province are higher than Phuket, Krabi, Phang Nga and Koh Samui, Matichon newspaper said. Mr. Siwat Suwanwong, president of …
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Prayut on shaky ground over Seksakol’s alleged payoff bid
By Thai Newsroom Reporters PRIME MINISTER PRAYUT Chan-o-cha could probably be held accountable for an alleged misconduct of a senior government official involving a demanded 15-million-baht payoff if he chose to do nothing about it shortly, said Thai Liberal Party leader Seripisut Temiyavej today (Apr. 7). Seripisut who concurrently chairs the House Committee on Corruption …
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MP moves to help ex-prosecutor’s daughter-in-law
A THAI ECONOMIC Party MP today (Apr. 7) posted two video clips showing the son of a former prosecutor brutally slapping and kicking his wife and said they would be helping her, Sanook.com said. One of the two video clips shared by Phai Lik, or Phai Wanpoint, the party’s MP from Kamphaeng Phet, showed …
Pareena deprived of MP status, banned for life from politics
By Thai Newsroom Reporters OUTSPOKEN PALANG PRACHARATH MP Pareena Kraikupt was today (Apr. 7) deprived by court of her MP status and banned for life from politics due to deliberate encroachment upon a forest reserve in Ratchaburi. The Supreme Court finally ruled Pareena, who has been suspended from doing legislative duties since last year, guilty …
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US and UK hit Moscow with new sanctions
By AP, published by ABC News, and BBC Brussels -The United States today (Apr. 6) announced sanctions targeting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s two adult daughters and said it was toughening penalties against Russian banks in retaliation for “war crimes” in Ukraine. The United Kingdom has also imposed sanctions on Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank and is …
Anti-graft panel being asked to probe official over alleged lottery payoff
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON Corruption And Misconduct is being asked tomorrow (Apr.7) to look into allegations that a senior government official has unduly sought a 15-million-baht payoff over problematic allocations of government lottery tickets. Mr. Somchai Srisutthiyakorn confirmed today he is petitioning the House Committee on Corruption and Misconduct chaired by …
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Newborn suffocates while sleeping with young parents
TEENAGE parents of a 28-day-old newborn baby boy are heartbroken after he died of suffocation while sleeping with them last night, Sanook.com said today (Apr. 6). Pol. Col. Banjob Joysriket, duty officer at Wiset Chai Chan police station in Ang Thong province, got a call early in the morning from Wiset Chai Chan Hospital to …
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Kla Party leader Korn catches Covid, relates details
KLA PARTY leader Korn Chatikavanij posted a message via Facebook that he has contracted Covid-19 and revealed details of his illness while the daily count is 24,252 cases and 94 deaths, Matichon newspaper said today (Apr. 6). A breakdown of the tally shows 24,165 were domestic cases while 87 overseas arrivals tested positive taking …
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Video clip of couple dancing while waiting to cross Chiang Mai road goes viral
http:// A VIDEO CLIP of a young foreign couple dancing while waiting to cross Rin Kham intersection in Chiang Mai city has gone viral with the couple also getting in touch with the videographer to get the original copy, Sanook.com said this evening (Apr. 5). Facebook member Kliaojai Chaisunan had shared the clip of the …
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Heavy flooding in Nakhon Si Thammarat, woman and 2 kids rescued from rooftop
AFTER torrential rain for three consecutive days, all 23 districts of Nakhon Si Thammarat province were flooded today (Aprl. 5) with water overflowing from rivers and canals flooding houses, plantations, roads and bridges leaving many impassable, Naewna newspaper said. Officials were mobilised to help residents with one team rescuing a woman and her two …
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Chaos at police station probing Tangmo Nida case as chief catches Covid
THERE was chaos at the crowded Mueang Nonthaburi police station, which is investigating the drowning of actress Pataratida Patcharawirapong, or Tangmo Nida, in Chao Phraya river during a speedboat trip in February, after the superintendent tested positive for Covid-19 via an antigen kit yesterday (Apr. 4), TV Channel 7 said. Dozens of people, including journalists …
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Russia to resume flights with 52 ‘friendly’ countries, Thailand likely among them
By Reuters, published by US News & World Report, and Naewna RUSSIA plans to end restrictions on flights to and from 52 countries after April 9, part of its plans to reduce measures taken to slow the spread of Covid-19, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Monday (Apr. 4). Russia plans to resume flights …
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Vladimir Putin should face war crimes trial for Bucha massacre, Biden says
By AP, published by Global News, plus BBC US President Joe Biden today (Apr. 4) called for a war crimes trial against Russia President Vladimir Putin and said he’d seek more sanctions after reported atrocities in Ukraine. “You saw what happened in Bucha,” Biden said. He added that Putin “is a war criminal.” Biden’s …
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Chinese-built sub without German engine could probably be cancelled: PM
By Thai Newsroom Reporters THAILAND COULD PROBABLY cancel the already-signed purchase order for a Chinese-built submarine if a specified German engine will not be installed aboard and then look to buy another one instead, said Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha today (Apr. 4). Prayut who concurrently acts as defence minister apparently downplayed criticism that the …
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First Omicron XJ case found with another likely recombinant variant case being checked
JUST a couple of days after it was revealed that a Thai man had got infected with the new Omicron subvariant XE, which is a mix of BA. 1 and BA. 2 strains, the Public Health Ministry today (Apr. 4) said another man was suspected to have been infected with the XJ subspecies with a …
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Woman shoots and kills engineer at Rayong construction site
THE ENGINEER supervising the expansion of a road in Rayong province was shot dead by a woman who drove up to talk to him and afterwards fled in the new sedan, Naewna newspaper said today (Apr. 4) At 10.50 a.m. Pol. Capt. Woradet Phongthong, deputy chief of Mueang Rayong police station, was alerted of the …
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Ukraine documents alleged atrocities by retreating Russians
By AP, published by The National UKRAINIAN troops are finding brutalised bodies and widespread destruction in suburbs of the capital as Russian soldiers withdraw and Moscow focuses its attacks elsewhere. Associated Press (AP) journalists in Bucha, a small city northwest of Kyiv, saw the bodies of at least nine people in civilian clothes who …
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