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Fifteen labour groups and their alliances rallied today (Tuesday), at the Rajamangala University of Technology Phra Nakhon, to demand wage rises and the resignation of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. The protesters intended to submit their three-point demand to Government House officials, but they were prevented from doing so by police and barricades, there to prevent protesters from getting close. Their leaders then read a prepared statement stating their three demands, which include increasing the minimum wage to 425 baht/per day across the country by October and to 492 baht/day next January, a cut in the prices of all kinds of petrol by six baht/litre and a reduction in the prices of consumer products. Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/thai-labour-groups-call-for-pay-rise-and-resignation-of-the-prime-minister/ -- © Copyright Thai PBS 2022-08-23 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. Monthly car subscription with first-class insurance, 24x7 assistance and more in one price - click here to find out more!

Whatever Charter Court’s ruling, “General Prayut” will not go away easily Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha leaves after his weekly cabinet meeting at the Government House in Bangkok on August 23, 2022. (Photo by Jack TAYLOR / AFP) As if political pundits these days didn’t have enough to chew on, Prayut government’s top legal expert Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam on Monday opened what might seem to be a new political Pandora’s Box. Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1269729-whatever-charter-court’s-ruling-“general-prayut”-will-not-go-away-easily/

Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha leaves after his weekly cabinet meeting at the Government House in Bangkok on August 23, 2022. (Photo by Jack TAYLOR / AFP) As if political pundits these days didn’t have enough to chew on, Prayut government’s top legal expert Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam on Monday opened what might seem to be a new political Pandora’s Box. And it surely has added to the already heated debate on the political fate of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha. According to Wissanu, even in the worst–case scenario in which he is forced out of office as prime minister as the result of a Constitutional Court’s ruling, Prayut Chan-o-cha will still be around in the Cabinet – not as prime minister but as defence minister. Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/whatever-charter-courts-ruling-general-prayut-will-not-go-away-easily/ -- © Copyright Thai PBS 2022-08-23 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. Monthly car subscription with first-class insurance, 24x7 assistance and more in one price - click here to find out more!

Household electricity users to get discounts from September to December Thailand’s Committee on Energy Policy Administration (CEPA) agreed today (Monday) to help shoulder the burden on household electricity consumers through discounts from September until December, the period the fuel tariff (FT) will be hiked. Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1269638-household-electricity-users-to-get-discounts-from-september-to-december/

Thailand’s Committee on Energy Policy Administration (CEPA) agreed today (Monday) to help shoulder the burden on household electricity consumers through discounts from September until December, the period the fuel tariff (FT) will be hiked. According to the committee, households which use no more than 300 units of electricity per month will get a discount of 92.04 satang per unit from September until end of December. Households which use between 301-500 units per month will be given discount rates on step-by-step format, ranging from 15% to 75%. These users account for 89% of household users nationwide, or 80% of all users. Full Story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/household-electricity-users-to-get-discounts-from-september-to-december/ -- © Copyright Thai PBS 2022-08-22 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. Monthly car subscription with first-class insurance, 24x7 assistance and more in one price - click here to find out more!

An artist's impression of Vam Nao Bridge crossing the Tien River in An Giang Province in the Mekong Delta. Photo by My Thuan Project Management Board Construction of two bridges across a Mekong tributary are proposed at a cost of VND9 trillion ($386 million) to replace ferry services currently in use. The Ministry of Transport's My Thuan Project Management Board has called for building the Tan Chau – Hong Ngu and Vam Nao bridges over the Tien River to link An Giang and Dong Thap provinces and within An Giang. It said the Tan Chau – Hong Ngu Bridge would be 890 m long but the entire project including the roads leading to it would stretch more than 17 km. Full Story: https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/mekong-delta-could-get-two-new-bridges-4502313.html -- © Copyright VN Express 2022-08-22

A 20-kilometer embankment to save Can Tho City, the Mekong Delta’s capital, from urban flooding, has yet to be completed since construction started in 2001. Work started on the embankments along both sides of the Can Tho River, a branch of the Hau River, a tributary of the Mekong River in Vietnam, in 2001. Running 10 kilometers on both sides of the river, the embankment has cost VND2.7 trillion ($115.9 billion), including ODA loans from French Development Agency and counterpart capital from Can Tho. Full Story: https://e.vnexpress.net/photo/news/can-tho-anti-flood-embankment-incomplete-after-two-decades-4500969.html -- © Copyright VN Express 2022-08-22

Vehicles are stuck in a traffic jam on Nguyen Trai Street, Hanoi's Thanh Xuan District, August 2022. Photo by VnExpress/Ngoc Thanh Hanoi plans to evaluate motorbike emissions starting 2024, with vehicles failing to meet standards charged and restricted from accessing certain areas of the city. The Hanoi Department of Natural Resources and the Environment said authorities would build frameworks and issue plans to manage motorbike emissions in 2023, as well as look into "area classification" measures to protect air quality and restrict motorbikes. In the 2024-2025 period, Hanoi would organize yearly emission evaluation trials for motorbikes that have been used for at least five years. The city is also looking into using stamps to differentiate such vehicles. Full Story: https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/hanoi-to-evaluate-motorbike-emissions-starting-2024-4502390.html -- © Copyright VN Express 2022-08-22

Vietnamese workers who escaped a casino in Cambodia stay at a border guard station in An Giang Province on August 18, 2022. Photo by An Giang border guard The Chinese manager at a casino in Cambodia from where 42 Vietnamese had escaped has admitted to "forced labor" practices. General Keo Vannthan, Immigration Department spokesman, told Cambodian media on Monday that he had led a team to Golden Phoenix Entertainment Casino in Chrey Thom Commune, Koh Thom District, Kandal Province and detained the manager for questioning, Khmer Times reported. The inspection resulted in the arrest of the casino manager, a Chinese national whose identity has yet to be revealed. Full Story: https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/cambodia-arrests-chinese-manager-at-casino-from-where-42-vietnamese-fled-4502432.html -- © Copyright VN Express 2022-08-22

Van Don – Mong Cai Expressway is receiving final touches to enter service next week and shorten the traveling time from the Chinese border to Hanoi and Ha Long Bay. Running more than 80 km (50 miles) in northern Quang Ninh Province, Van Don – Mong Cai Expressway will connect to the 300-km Hanoi – Ha Long Expressway and 264-km Noi Bai – Lao Cai Expressway to become the longest such route in the country and is nearly 98% complete. The nation's longest expressway, which will run through the northern port city of Hai Phong and Quang Ninh, home to world-renowned Ha Long Bay, will shorten the traveling time from Hanoi to Mong Cai border gate with China from five and a half hours to three hours, and from Ha Long to Mong Cai from three hours to one and a half. Full Story: https://e.vnexpress.net/photo/news/section-of-vietnams-longest-expressway-prepares-to-open-4502495.html -- © Copyright VN Express 2022-08-22

An electron microscopic (EM) image shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virus particles as well as crescents and spherical particles of immature virions. Photo by Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regnery/CDC/Handout via Reuters People entering Vietnam from areas with monkeypox outbreaks will be monitored and suspected carriers quarantined, the health ministry said Monday. Risk factors include making contact with people infected or suspected to be infected with monkeypox, or having had sexual intercourse with multiple partners, within 21 days before the first symptoms appear, according to a temporary guide for monitoring and preventing monkeypox by the Ministry of Health. Based on their risk factors, entrants will be transferred to medical facilities for diagnosis, treatment or self-monitor for 21 days after entry. This policy will also be applied to entrants coming from countries/regions with monkeypox. Full Story: https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/vietnam-to-monitor-entrants-with-monkeypox-risks-for-21-days-4502554.html -- © Copyright VN Express 2022-08-22

Satellite image as of 11 a.m. on August 22, 2022. PAGASA MANILA, Philippines — State weather bureau PAGASA raised Tropical Wind Signal No. 2 in parts of Northern Luzon as tropical cyclone Florita intensified into a tropical storm. Florita developed into a tropical storm at 8 a.m., according to PAGASA which said that further intensification is possible prior to the cyclone's landfall. The tropical storm was last spotted 215 kilometers east of Casiguran, Aurora. Its maximum sustained winds increased to 75 kph near the center from 55 kph, and its gusts increased to up to 90 kph from 70 kph. Full Story: https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2022/08/22/2204321/pagasa-raises-signal-no-2-4-areas-florita-becomes-tropical-storm -- © Copyright Philstar 2022-08-22

Teachers watch their students walk along a corridor after a short break at the start of classes at a school in Quezon City, suburban Manila on August 22, 2022 as millions of children in the Philippines returned to school as the academic year started on August 22, with many taking their seats in classrooms for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic hit. AFP / Ted Aljibe MANILA, Philippines — Millions of children in the Philippines returned to school as the academic year started on Monday, with many taking their seats in classrooms for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic hit. The Philippines is one of the last countries in the world to resume full-time, in-person lessons -- sparking warnings that the prolonged closure of classrooms had worsened an education crisis in the country. Children in masks and uniforms lined up for a temperature check and squirt of hand sanitiser at Pedro Guevara Elementary School in Manila, which had shut classrooms since March 2020. Full Story: https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2022/08/22/2204327/philippine-classrooms-reopen-after-more-two-years -- © Copyright Philstar 2022-08-22

Parents and students set up camp along the sidewalks near the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) main office in Batasan, Quezon City on midnight of Aug. 20, 2022 as they queue for the start of distribution of the agency’s educational assistance program in preparation for the new school year. The educational assistance program aims to provide financial aid to eligible student beneficiaries which they can use for various school necessities. Some individuals started lining up as early as Friday for the payout which will be given to "students-in-crisis" until September 24. The STAR / Miguel de Guzman MANILA, Philippines — After crowding and long lines during the payout of cash aid last Saturday, the Department of Social Welfare and Development said it will adjust how it will distribute money for indigent students over the next six weekends. Speaking on CNN Philippines' "The Source", Social Welfare Secretary Erwin Tulfo said the DSWD is hoping to tap local government units and considering use of an alphabetical list for the payouts. "We will try to adapt. We will send our own people, social workers to the municipalities and the cities," Tulfo said in mixed Filipino and English as he disclosed that the DSWD would soon sign a memorandum of agreement with the Department of the Interior and Local Government for its Assistance to Individuals in Crisis Situations. Full Story: https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2022/08/22/2204317/dswd-adapt-after-chaotic-first-day-student-aid-distribution -- © Copyright Philstar 2022-08-22

A teacher watches her students pray inside their classroom at the start of classes at a school in Quezon City, suburban Manila on August 22, 2022 as millions of children in the Philippines returned to school as the academic year started on August 22, with many taking their seats in classrooms for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic hit. AFP / Ted Aljibe MANILA, Philippines — The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is calling on the government to implement the “RAPID” learning recovery framework as children go back to in-person classes this school year. The framework entails education stakeholders to work together to: Reach every child and retain them in school: Stakeholders are called on to promote the return of in-person learning, provide cash transfers to poor families, and warn “at-risk students” early on in their education. Assess learning levels regularly: This would allow stakeholders to look at learning losses at the national and the sub-national level. However, this would also require tools for classroom level measurement for teachers. Prioritize teaching the fundamentals: There would be an effort to adjust the educational curriculum within subjects with an emphasis on numeracy, literacy, and socio-emotional skills. Increase catch-up learning and progress beyond what was lost: This would entail self-guided learning and targetted instruction, among others. Develop psychosocial health and well-being so every child is ready to learn: This means more investments in both teachers' and students’ needs. Full Story: https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2022/08/22/2204342/unicef-urges-government-adopt-learning-recovery-framework -- © Copyright Philstar 2022-08-22

Pattaya residents and social media upset about overnight foreign motorbike racers A large group of what appears to be Middle Eastern tourists with over 30 motorbikes allegedly blocked parts of Sukumvit Road to illegally race motorbikes. Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1269625-pattaya-residents-and-social-media-upset-about-overnight-foreign-motorbike-racers/

A large group of what appears to be Middle Eastern tourists with over 30 motorbikes allegedly blocked parts of Sukumvit Road to illegally race motorbikes. Local media today in the early morning, August 22nd, reported about a group of foreign motorcyclists who gathered in front of the Esso gas station in South Pattaya to drive around the city, unnecessarily honk horns, and disturb peace in the neighborhood. The group of around 30 racers also blocked a portion of Sukhumvit Road in South Pattaya to race their motorcycles without a care for other drivers who may want to share the road, according to local media. This action outraged numerous Thais and foreign tourists who resided close to the street or the rendezvous of these foreign racers, prompting a question of where the law enforcement officials were when they were needed. Full Story: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/08/22/pattaya-residents-and-social-media-upset-about-overnight-foreign-motorbike-racers-disturbing-the-peace/ -- © Copyright The Pattaya News 2022-08-22 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. Monthly car subscription with first-class insurance, 24x7 assistance and more in one price - click here to find out more!

Thai construction worker’s leg amputated by concrete pump truck in Sattahip PHOTO: กู้ภัยสว่างโรจนธรรมสถาน สัตหีบ A 38-year-old Thai construction worker got his leg amputated by a concrete pump truck. Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1269624-thai-construction-worker’s-leg-amputated-by-concrete-pump-truck-in-sattahip/

PHOTO: กู้ภัยสว่างโรจนธรรมสถาน สัตหีบ A 38-year-old Thai construction worker got his leg amputated by a concrete pump truck. Sawang Rojanathamsathan rescue workers rushed to a construction site in Sattahip district of Chonburi yesterday, August 21st, after being notified that one construction worker got his leg trapped in a concrete pump truck and suffered a serious injury. The victim was a 38-year-old Thai man named Somwang Hasdong. His lower left leg was tightly stuck in a tiny gap in a concrete pump truck, so the rescue workers needed to extricate it and found that it had already been amputated. Somwang was then rushed to an intensive care unit at Queen Sirikit Naval Hospital for emergency assistance. Full Story: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/08/22/thai-construction-workers-leg-amputated-by-concrete-pump-truck-in-sattahip/ -- © Copyright The Pattaya News 2022-08-22 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. Monthly car subscription with first-class insurance, 24x7 assistance and more in one price - click here to find out more!

Freight tricycle hit by truck in Pattaya, rider suffers broken arm A freight tricycle rider suffered a broken arm after getting hit by a large truck. The truck driver, however, claimed that the tricycle did not have taillights and that the road was too dark. Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1269623-freight-tricycle-hit-by-truck-in-pattaya-rider-suffers-broken-arm/

A freight tricycle rider suffered a broken arm after getting hit by a large truck. The truck driver, however, claimed that the tricycle did not have taillights and that the road was too dark. Pattaya Sawang Boriboon Thammasathan rescue workers on Sunday, August 21st, assisted a Thai freight tricycle driver who was reportedly hit by a truck on 36 Highway inbound to Pattaya near the Bira Circuit race track in Banglamung’s Pong subdistrict. The tricycle belonged to Wichan Thongplew, 34, who suffered a broken left arm in a crash. He was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital without making any statement. On the other hand, Watcharapong Saengchantra, 48, who reportedly crashed into the tricycle waited at the scene to give his story. Full Story: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/08/22/freight-tricycle-hit-by-truck-in-pattaya-rider-suffers-broken-arm/ -- © Copyright The Pattaya News 2022-08-22 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. Monthly car subscription with first-class insurance, 24x7 assistance and more in one price - click here to find out more!

One tourist killed, three injured in shooting between two raft rental shops PHOTO: Thairath One tourist was instantly killed and three were injured in a customer fight that ended up in a shooting between two raft rental shops at Krasiao Dam in the Dan Chang district of Suphan Buri province on Sunday, August 21st. Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1269619-one-tourist-killed-three-injured-in-shooting-between-two-raft-rental-shops/

PHOTO: Thairath One tourist was instantly killed and three were injured in a customer fight that ended up in a shooting between two raft rental shops at Krasiao Dam in the Dan Chang district of Suphan Buri province on Sunday, August 21st. Officials from the Dan Chang police station arrived at the scene after being notified of a shooting incident on Sunday evening. Upon arrival, the injured individuals were already delivered to the nearest hospital. The police then began the examination at a bamboo booth where the victims were reportedly hanging out before the incident. According to local witnesses, a lot of tourists were visiting the dam on the weekend, causing two local raft renting businesses to try to get the most customers. Before the incident, an intermediary, who was also another rental operator, came to ease the situation. Full Story: https://thepattayanews.com/2022/08/22/one-tourist-killed-three-injured-in-shooting-between-two-raft-rental-shops-in-suphan-buri/ -- © Copyright The Pattaya News 2022-08-22 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. Monthly car subscription with first-class insurance, 24x7 assistance and more in one price - click here to find out more!

Policewoman Detained for Assaulting Servant RATCHABURI, Aug 22 (TNA) – Police sought the extended detention of a policewoman who allegedly assaulted her helper who is a former soldier. Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1269618-policewoman-detained-for-assaulting-servant/

RATCHABURI, Aug 22 (TNA) – Police sought the extended detention of a policewoman who allegedly assaulted her helper who is a former soldier. The police corporal together with her lawyer on Monday arrived at the Muang Ratchaburi police station for additional interrogation. It was expected that police would oppose her temporary release because the victim and her family said they had been threatened and feared for their safety. Full Story: https://tna.mcot.net/english-news/line-today-english-news-1002698 -- © Copyright Thai News Agency 2022-08-22 - Cigna offers a range of visa-compliant plans that meet the minimum requirement of medical treatment, including COVID-19, up to THB 3m. For more information on all expat health insurance plans click here. Monthly car subscription with first-class insurance, 24x7 assistance and more in one price - click here to find out more!