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Public anger grows over coronavirus in Thailand, with eight cases of the illness

By Chayut Setboonsarng

 

Health workers use infrared thermometers to check the temperature of tourists who arrive at Bangkok's Don Mueang Airport, Thailand, January 25, 2020. REUTERS/Panumas Sanguanwong

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - The health minister in Thailand, the country with the most confirmed cases outside China of the new coronavirus, called an emergency meeting on Sunday with the transport and tourism ministries amid rising public discontent over the government's handling of the illness.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145257-public-anger-grows-over-coronavirus-in thailand-with-eight-cases-of-the-illness/

 

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Almost 7,000 people from Wuhan visited Thailand this month

By The Nation

 

 

High-level sources in the tourism industry revealed that Chinese tourists made up almost 30 per cent of the foreign visitors passing through Don Mueang Airport every day.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145259-almost-7000-people-from-wuhan-visited-thailand-this-month/

 

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Dead fish smeared with oil found on beach in Songkhla

By The Nation

 

 

Several fish were found dead Sunday (January 26) on the beach in Sathing Phra district in Songkhla province.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145260-dead-fish-smeared-with-oil-found-on-beach-in-songkhla/

 

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High dust to affect air quality in some northern provinces

By The Nation

 

 

The overall air quality in the country ranged from good to below standard, according to reports from 17 air-quality monitoring stations of the Pollution Control Department (PCD).

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145261-high-dust-to-affect-air-quality-in-some-northern-provinces/

 

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Meeting to discuss evacuation of Thais stranded in Wuhan

By The Nation

 

 

A meeting at the Foreign Ministry on Monday (January 27) will discuss plans to evacuate Thai people from Wuhan in China if the coronavirus situation worsens.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145262-meeting-to-discuss-evacuation-of-thais-stranded-in-wuhan/

 

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Public hearing in the US on Jan 30 to discuss tariff privileges for Thai products

By The Nation

 

 

The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) will open a public hearing on January 30 on the suspension of tariff privileges for Thai products under the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP), Thailand’s Department of Foreign Trade (DFT) said.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145263-public-hearing-in-the-us-on-jan-30-to-discuss-tariff-privileges-for-thai-products/

 

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Pavit clinches record seventh ADT victory

By THE NATION

 

Pavit Tangkamolprasert

 

Nakhon Ratchasima - The in-form Pavit Tangkamolprasert made history after he clinched the Boonchu Ruangkit Championship with a two-shot victory courtesy of a four-under-par 67 in the final round on Sunday.

 

Source: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145264-pavit-clinches-record-seventh-adt-victory/

 

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Hongkonger Ng wins Thailand Masters for first BWF World Tour title

By Lerpong Amsa-ngiam
THE NATION

 

Hong Kong’s Ng Ka

 

Hong Kong’s Ng Ka Long rallied back from a game down to beat Japanese Kenta Nishimoto to claim his maiden BWF World Tour title in the Princess Sirivannavari Thailand Masters at the Hua Mark Indoor Stadium on Sunday (January 26).

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145265-hongkonger-ng-wins-thailand-masters-for-first-bwf-world-tour-title/

 

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Wuhan virus expected to hit Thai and Asian tourism hard 

By The Nation

 

File Photo/Nationphoto

 

The outbreak of the Wuhan virus may cost Thai and Asian tourism industries Bt100 billion in lost income, an economist has warned.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145266-wuhan-virus-expected-to-hit-thai-and-asian-tourism-hard/

 

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Study on smart city in EEC close to completion

By THE NATION

 

Photo credit: EEC

 

The Office of the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) is close to finishing the study on developing the “smart city” project in Chachoengsao province.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145267-study-on-smart-city-in-eec-close-to-completion/

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Water management a make-or-break challenge for industrial corridors

By The Nation

 

 

The Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) currently has enough water for its needs but as people, labour and industrial activity gather pace the demand is seen spiking.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145268-water-management-a-make-or-break-challenge-for-industrial-corridors/

 

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UPDATE:

 

Eight confirmed coronavirus cases in Thailand so far

 

 

As of Sunday, there have been eight confirmed coronavirus cases in Thailand, five of which have already returned to China, Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul disclosed today.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145257-public-anger-grows-over-coronavirus-in thailand-with-eight-cases-of-the-illness/?do=findComment&comment=14994835

 

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A Thai student in Wuhan appeals for help from Government

 

 

A Thai student, currently stuck in the Chinese city of Wuhan, has appealed to the Thai government to help evacuate her and her compatriots, claiming they are running out of food.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145269-a-thai-student-in-wuhan-appeals-for-help-from-government/

 

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Over 21 million worried about coronavirus spread – Super Poll

 

 

Office, are concerned about the coronavirus outbreak, compared to about 16 million who expressed concern over the PM2.5 dust pollution.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145270-over-21-million-worried-about-coronavirus-spread-–-super-poll/

 

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Chinese-language interpreters needed to interview arriving Chinese tourists

 

 

Thailand’s Department of Disease Control is recruiting Chinese-language interpreters to help interview tourists arriving at Suvarnabhumi, Don Mueang and U-tapao international airports from risk areas.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145271-chinese-language-interpreters-needed-to-interview-arriving-chinese-tourists/

 

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Thai Economy Faces Turbulence From China Ban on Group Tours

By Suttinee Yuvejwattana

 

Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg

 

-- Chinese account for more than a quarter of tourism receipts

-- Ban is part of China’s efforts to limit coronavirus spread

 

Thailand’s economy faces fresh turbulence after China banned outbound group tours to try and limit the spread of the novel coronavirus that’s sickened thousands.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145272-thai-economy-faces-turbulence-from-china-ban-on-group-tours/

 

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Basketball star Kobe Bryant, four others dead in helicopter crash

By Daniel Trotta

 

FILE PHOTO: Jul 27, 2019; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Kobe Bryant is pictured with his daughter Gianna at the WNBA All Star Game at Mandalay Bay Events Center. Mandatory Credit: Stephen R. Sylvanie-USA TODAY Sports/File Photo

 

(Reuters) - Kobe Bryant, who won five NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers and was considered one of basketball's all-time greats, was killed in a helicopter crash in California on Sunday morning, officials said. He was 41.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145273-basketball-star kobe bryant-four-others-dead-in-helicopter-crash/

 

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Trump to meet with Netanyahu and Gantz as he readies Mideast peace plan

By Steve Holland and Dan Williams

 

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands as Netanyahu departs the White House from the West Wing in Washington, U.S. March 25, 2019. REUTERS/Leah Millis

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will hold back-to-back meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz on Monday as he prepares to release his long-delayed Middle East peace plan.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145274-trump to-meet-with-netanyahu-and-gantz-as-he-readies-mideast-peace-plan/

 

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Dinner download - Tape surfaces of Trump calling for envoy's firing

By Mike Stone

 

FILE PHOTO: Marie Yovanovitch, former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, reacts while testifying before a House Intelligence Committee hearing as part of the impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 15, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Halfway through a dinner at the Trump Hotel, U.S. President Donald Trump can be heard giving the order to remove the U.S ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, according to a video that surfaced on Saturday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145275-dinner-download-tape-surfaces-of trump calling-for-envoys-firing/

 

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Trump says lead impeachment Democrat Schiff has not paid 'price, yet'

By Doina Chiacu

 

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) speaks to media after the impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump ended for the day in Washington, U.S., January 25, 2020. REUTERS/Mary F. Calvert

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the Democratic lawmaker leading the impeachment case against him, Representative Adam Schiff, has "not paid the price, yet" for his actions, a statement Schiff said he viewed as a threat.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145276-trump-says-lead-impeachment-democrat-schiff-has-not-paid-price-yet/

 

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Dutch Prime Minister apologises for country's role in Holocaust

 

FILE PHOTO: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte attends a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in The Hague, Netherlands, August 22, 2019. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw/File Photo

 

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Sunday he was sorry for his country's role during the Holocaust and the lack of action against the persecution of Jews, becoming the first Dutch premier to make such an official apology.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145277-dutch-prime-minister-apologises-for-countrys-role-in-holocaust/

 

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Coronavirus: Groups tours from China to Thailand suspended, screening of Chinese arrivals to be stepped up

FILE PHOTO: Chinese tourists visit the Temple of the Emerald Buddha in Bangkok, Thailand August 19, 2018. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

 

China has ordered travel agents in the country to suspend sales of all international tours from Monday (26 Jan) in a bid to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145272-thai-economy-faces-turbulence-from-china-ban-on-group-tours/?do=findComment&comment=14994912

 

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Italy's centre-left seen beating League in key regional vote - exit poll

By Crispian Balmer

 

FILE PHOTO: Leader of Italy's far-right League party Matteo Salvini speaks on stage during a rally ahead of a regional election in Emilia-Romagna, in Ravenna, Italy, January 24, 2020. REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo

 

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's centre-left Democratic Party (PD) looked on course to beat Matteo Salvini's rightist League party in a closely watched election in the northern region of Emilia-Romagna, an exit poll said on Sunday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145280-italys-centre-left-seen-beating-league-in-key-regional-vote-exit-poll/

 

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Rabbis call for removal of church at Auschwitz

 

Rabbi Jonathan Leener, Rabbi Ezra Seligsohn, Avi Weiss, Rabbi Shabbos Kestenbaum hold banners as they attend a protest to move a church situated next to Birkenau, former German Nazi death camp in Brzezinka near Oswiecim, Poland January 26, 2020. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

 

OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) - Four U.S. rabbis led by New York's Avi Weiss gathered on Sunday in front of a church next to the Nazi German death camp at Birkenau in Poland arguing for its removal from a site where more than a million Jews were murdered.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145281-rabbis-call-for-removal-of-church-at-auschwitz/

 

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With anti-Semitism on the rise, Auschwitz liberation commemorated

By Justyna Pawlak and Joanna Plucinska

 

A commemorative plaque is seen at the Gleis 17 (Platform 17) memorial, a platform at Berlin-Grunewald train station from where some 50,000 Jewish citizens were deported by train to the Nazi concentration camps between 1941 and 1945, in Berlin, Germany, January 24, 2020. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

 

WARSAW/OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) - World leaders join ageing Holocaust survivors in Poland on Monday to mark 75 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp by Soviet troops, amid concerns over a global resurgence of anti-Semitism.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145282-with-anti-semitism-on-the-rise-auschwitz-liberation-commemorated/

 

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Half of Australians donated to bushfire appeal: survey

By Lidia Kelly

 

Rubble are seen at a property damaged by bushfires in Kangaroo Valley, Australia, January 20, 2020. REUTERS/Angie Teo

 

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - One in two Australians have donated money to support bushfire relief efforts, a new survey showed over the weekend, with meteorologists warning more hot and dry weather is to return after a heavy rain respite dampened many of the blazes.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145284-half-of-australians-donated-to-bushfire-appeal-survey/

 

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China virus deaths rise to 80 as Hong Kong bans visitors from worst-hit province

 

Worshippers wear masks to prevent an outbreak of a new coronavirus as they make offerings of incense sticks during a Lunar New Year celebration at Che Kung Temple, in Hong Kong, China January 26, 2020. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

 

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - The death toll from China's new coronavirus grew to 80 on Monday as residents of Hubei province, where the disease originated, were banned from entering Hong Kong amid global efforts to halt the rapid spread of the outbreak.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145285-china-virus-deaths-rise-to-80-as-hong-kong-bans-visitors-from-worst-hit-province/

 

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Iraqi security forces kill protester, rockets hit U.S. embassy

By Aziz El Yaakoubi and Nadine Awadalla

 

University students carry an Iraqi flag, during ongoing anti-government protests in Baghdad, Iraq January 26, 2020. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani

 

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces shot at anti-government protesters in Baghdad on Sunday, killing at least one person, and unidentified men set fire to sit-in tents in a southern Iraqi city, police and medics said, as months-long civil unrest escalated.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145287-iraqi-security-forces-kill-protester-rockets-hit-us-embassy/

 

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Pattaya: Coronavirus expected to hit hard as crisis meeting mulls options

 

 

Manager reported that Pattaya and Rayong - very much a gateway to Thailand as well as a destination in their own right - would be hit particularly hard by the effects on tourism of the coronavirus. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145294-pattaya-coronavirus-expected-to-hit-hard-as-crisis-meeting-mulls-options/

 

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Hungarian pensioner dies in the cells at Suvarnabhumi as he awaits deportation

 

Thai caption: He never woke up again

Picture: Sanook

 

A 60 year old Hungarian man who was set to be deported to face charges in his home country after he hid out and overstayed in Thailand was found dead in his holding cell at Suvarnabhumi airport on Sunday morning. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1145295-hungarian-pensioner-dies-in-the-cells-at-suvarnabhumi-as-he-awaits-deportation/