THAI to take back stranded Aussie, Kiwi tourists and bring back Thais

By THE NATION

 

 

Thai Airways International (THAI), in coordination with the Foreign Ministry and the embassies of Australia and New Zealand in Bangkok, will fly tourists from the two countries who have been stranded here and the Thais stuck there back home on the following flights:

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1160711-thai-to-take-back-stranded-aussie-kiwi-tourists-and-bring-back-thais/

 

Pattani adjusts market hours for Ramadan

By THE NATION

 

 

A night market in Pattani’s Muang district has moved up its closing hours in compliance with the government’s 10pm to 4am curfew to allow merchants enough time to pack up their stalls and get home in time.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1160712-pattani-adjusts-market-hours-for-ramadan/

 

Uttaradit man found dead in hut as temperatures soar

By The Nation

 

 

Doctors suspect a 68-year-old elderly man found dead in Uttaradit on Tuesday (April 21) succumbed to the heat after temperatures in the northern province hit 40 degrees Celsius.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1160714-uttaradit-man-found-dead-in-hut-as-temperatures-soar/

 

Yaowarat’s Jumbo Lobster eatery gives away food

By The Nation

 

Photo Credit: Nation Photo by Tanachai Pramarnpanich

 

Yaowarat’s famous streetside eatery, Jumbo Lobster, along with Sripathum University provided food on Tuesday (April 21) to people in the area whose businesses have been struck by the Covid-19 crisis.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1160715-yaowarat’s-jumbo-lobster-eatery-gives-away-food/

 

‘Phanom Tian’, king of jungle tales, dies at 89

By The Nation

 

 

Chatchai Wisetsuvarnabhumi, who delighted generations of Thai readers with his popular adventure novels and songs, died on Tuesday (April 21) after suffering with heart disease. He was 89.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1160716-‘phanom-tian’-king-of-jungle-tales-dies-at-89/

 

Grounded pilot takes off with Grab food delivery

By THE NATION

 

 

Jet-liner pilot Thanun Khantatatbumroong decided to start delivering food after his airline suspended services during the Covid-19 crisis, cutting his revenue by more than 50 per cent.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1160718-grounded-pilot-takes-off-with-grab-food-delivery/

 

Soldiers compensate parents of drug suspect who died after interrogation

By The Nation

 

 

An Army unit under investigation after 11 of its soldiers allegedly tortured and killed a man in Nakhon Phanom province has sent representatives to compensate the victim’s parents at his funeral.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1160720-soldiers-compensate-parents-of-drug-suspect-who-died-after-interrogation/

Get ready to be hit by seasonal flu, dengue now, say doctors

By The Nation

 

 

Apart from the continued threat of Covid-19, Thais are now being urged to prepare for seasonal influenza and dengue now that the rainy season is approaching.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1160721-get-ready-to-be-hit-by-seasonal-flu-dengue-now-say-doctors/

 

Norwegian Seamen’s Church in Pattaya hands out food to over 1500 needy people

By Jan Olav Aamlid

 

Deacon Hans Konrad Nyvoll hands out the last cans of mackerel.

 

For the second time, on Thursday April 16, the Norwegian Seamen’s Church Abroad, Sjomanskirken, in Thappraya Road, Soi 5 donated food to the unemployed and low-income residents in the community.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1160725-norwegian-seamen’s-church-in-pattaya-hands-out-food-to-over-1500-needy-people/

 

Adios Songkran, please come back next year

By Kamolthep Malhotra

 

Pattaya Beach Road is where the mass of people meet to celebrate ‘Wan Lai’

 

Songkran or the Thai New Year falls on April 13 every year. 

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1160728-adios-songkran-please-come-back-next-year/

 

Thailand extends foreigners' visas as coronavirus cases slow

 

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's cabinet approved a second automatic visa extension for foreigners for three more months on Tuesday, in a bid to prevent long queues at immigration centres and stem the spread of the coronavirus.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1160719-thailand-extends-foreigners-visas-for-a-second-time-as-coronavirus-cases-slow/

 

Thailand approves $3 billion in relief measures to ease virus impact

 

FILE PHOTO: A view of an empty square ouside CentralWorld shopping mall, which usually is crowded with tourists during a Songkran festival, after the government banned this festival amid fears of the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Bangkok, Thailand, April 13, 2020. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand’s cabinet approved 98.7 billion baht ($3 billion) in relief measures on Tuesday to help mitigate the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, which is driving the country towards recession.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1160729-thailand-approves-3-billion-in-relief-measures-to-ease-virus-impact/

 

Beastie Boys Story Review

By Alex Godfrey

 

 

The Beastie Boys, they once told us, have got more stories than J.D.’s got Salinger, a lyric that sounds like it might make sense, but doesn’t at all.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1160730-beastie-boys-story-review/

 

Pierce Brosnan, 66, embraces lockdown with new white silver hair and a clean-shaven look

By SEAN O'GRADY

 

Embracing lockdown life: Pierce Brosnan has embraced a new look during lockdown as he unveiled new white silver hair and a clean-shaven beard on Monday in Hawaii

 

He has been self-isolating with his family in picturesque Hawaii amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1160731-pierce-brosnan-66-embraces-lockdown-with-new-white-silver-hair-and-a-clean-shaven-look/

 

Brad Pitt assesses the grey skies as he does the weather from his house for John Krasinski's show Some Good News

By CHRISTINE RENDON

 

'Looks uh... pretty good': Brad Pitt, 56, did the weather for the latest episode of John Krasinski's Some Good News show

 

Actor, producer, and now weatherman. 

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1160732-brad-pitt-assesses-the-grey-skies-as-he-does-the-weather-from-his-house-for-john-krasinskis-show-some-good-news/

 

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