Thailand reopening more businesses as coronavirus eases

 

 

Staff wearing protective face masks pass their time as they prepare to reopen their shop in a shopping centre during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Pathum Thani, Thailand May 14, 2020. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand will begin allowing department stores, shopping malls and other businesses to reopen from Sunday as new coronavirus cases dwindle, the government said.

 

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Phetchaburi targets African horse sickness with vaccine blitz

By The Nation

 

 

Phetchaburi has drawn up plans to fight an outbreak of highly infectious African horse sickness (AHS), which continues to spread across Thailand after being discovered in March.

 

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China, South Korea removed from list of high-risk countries

By THE NATION

 

Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul

 

The Public Health Ministry on Friday (May 15) announced that it has removed China, South Korea as well as Hong Kong and Macau from its list of countries with high risk of Covid-19 infection.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1164384-china-south-korea-removed-from-list-of-high-risk-countries/

 

Bidding process for Maha Sarakham roads not rigged: official

By THE NATION

 

 

Director of the Maha Sarakham Highways District Office on Friday (May 15) denied allegations that the bidding process for the construction of four roads had been rigged.

 

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Blockchain technology to ensure fairness in trading of crude palm oil

By The Nation

 

Nantika Thangsupanich

 

The Department of Energy Business (DOEB) is promoting the use of blockchain technology in crude palm oil trading to prevent price fluctuations and ensure fairness.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1164386-blockchain-technology-to-ensure-fairness-in-trading-of-crude-palm-oil/

 

Brazil health minister quits, deepening Brazil coronavirus crisis

By Lisandra Paraguassu

 

Brazil's Health Minister Nelson Teich attends a news conference, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Brasilia, Brazil May 15, 2020. REUTERS/Adriano Machado

 

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil lost its second health minister in a month on Friday after President Jair Bolsonaro demanded an endorsement of risky anti-malarial drugs to fight the coronavirus outbreak, adding to turmoil in one of the pandemic's worst global hotspots.

 

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U.S. moves to cut Huawei off from global chip suppliers as China eyes retaliation

By David Shepardson, Karen Freifeld and Alexandra Alper

 

FILE PHOTO: The Huawei logo is seen on a communications device in London, Britain, January 28, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Friday moved to block global chip supplies to blacklisted telecoms equipment giant Huawei Technologies [HWT.UL], spurring fears of Chinese retaliation and hammering shares of U.S. producers of chipmaking equipment.

 

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Keenly-watched COVID-19 vaccine 'won't be expensive', developer says

By Kate Kelland

 

Vial 1 of Box 1. This is the vaccine candidate to be used in Phase 1 clinical trial at the Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility (CBF) in Oxford, Britain, April 2, 2020. Sean Elias/Handout via REUTERS

 

LONDON (Reuters) - A keenly-watched COVID-19 vaccine will be priced to allow as wide as possible access to it, if it proves successful, and will be made at huge scale to keep costs down and supply up, said the Oxford University professor co-leading its development.

 

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In patchwork restart, parts of New York and other U.S. states reopen

By Doina Chiacu and Nathan Layne

 

A New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer wearing a protective face mask stands at the entrance of the Sheep Meadow in Central Park during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., May 15, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Less populated areas of New York, Virginia and Maryland took their first steps towards lifting lockdowns on Friday, part of a patchwork approach to the coronavirus pandemic that has been shaped by political divisions across the United States.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1164390-in-patchwork-restart-parts-of-new-york-and-other-us-states-reopen/

 

Australia's outback territory toasts its first pub beer after virus shutdown

By Byron Kaye

 

The chief minister of Australia's outback Northern Territory was one of the first people in the country to pour a beer in public for weeks as the region's pubs reopened their doors on Friday after an almost two-month coronavirus shutdown. Emer McCarthy reports.

 

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The chief minister of Australia's outback Northern Territory was one of the first people in the country to pour a beer in public in weeks as the region's pubs opened their doors on Friday after an almost two-month coronavirus shutdown.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1164391-australias-outback-territory-toasts-its-first-pub-beer-after-virus-shutdown/

 

Deadly Rio police raid brings crowds into streets of quarantined favela

By Ricardo Morães

 

Residents wearing protective masks transport dead bodies after a police operation against drug gangs at the Alemao slums complex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil May 15, 2020. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes

 

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A deadly police raid in Rio de Janeiro on suspected drug traffickers on Friday morning drew crowds into the streets of a neighborhood under quarantine, provoking criticism from residents and activists.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1164392-deadly-rio-police-raid-brings-crowds-into-streets-of-quarantined-favela/

 

Not your typical drive-thru: Man crashes motorcycle in to restaurant

 

 

Video footage of an accident in Thailand shows  the moment a man loses control of his motorcycle and smashes into a restaurant.

 

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PM supports court-sanctioned rehabilitation programme for THAI

 

 

Beleaguered Thai Airways International is likely to file for bankruptcy protection and have to enter a court sanctioned restructuring and rehabilitation process, Deputy Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said today.

 

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Can COVID-19 kick-start long-distance learning?

 

 

The debate over when Thailand’s schools should reopen has become highly politicized, but it has also led to an intriguing question of whether Thai students are prepared for an increase in “distance learning”.

 

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Pattaya: "Drunk Russian" squares up to Thais after poor driving in the floods

 

 

Image: 77kaoded

 

A Thai man went on Facebook in an effort to track down a Foreign couple responsible for some poor driving in Pattaya.

 

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Nonthaburi police arrest foreigner in cocaine sting - no travel history or passport found

 

 

Image: 77kaoded

 

Thai media reported that Rattanathibet police in Nonthaburi conducted a drug buying sting at a gas station on Tiwanon Road on Thursday evening.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1164400-nonthaburi-police-arrest-foreigner-in-cocaine-sting-no-travel-history-or-passport-found/

 

 

Thai man shot his wife because she wouldn't send his mum 1,000 baht a month

 

 

Image: Daily News

 

A Thai husband told investigators that he strangled his wife then shot her three times after they argued about her sending his mother 1,000 baht a month.

 

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Sexy dancers turn to cutting durian amid coronavirus crisis.

 

 

Images: Daily News

 

Daily News reported that the Thai public were resorting to do anything to make ends meet amid the coronavirus pandemic.

 

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Hua Hin: Weeklong clean up operation sees dozens of workers disinfecting the streets!

 

Image: 77kaoded

 

77kaoded reported that teams of firemen, cleaners, soldiers and municipal staff had been out all week making sure Hua Hin was in tip top clean shape.

 

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Hot weather with thundershowers in some areas forecast for upper Thailand

By THE NATION

 

 

The Thailand Meteorological Department said on Saturday (May 16) that a thermal low covers upper Thailand while the southerly and southeasterly winds blow in with humidity.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1164425-hot-weather-with-thundershowers-in-some-areas-forecast-for-upper-thailand/

 

Department explains reasons for removing some countries from high-risk list

By THE NATION

 

Dr Walairat Chaifoo

 

The Department of Disease Control has explained the reasons for removing China, South Korea as well as Hong Kong and Macau from the list of countries with high risk of Covid-19 infection.

 

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CASTAWAY Brit, 35, marooned on snake-infested island for two months and forced to forage for food due to coronavirus lockdown

Jon Lockett

 

Natalie Poole is stuck on Kyun Pila, in Myanmar, with four othersCredit: Facebook/Natalie Poole

 

A BRIT has been left stranded on a remote snake-infested island for TWO MONTHS due to the coronavirus pandemic.

 

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Ministry worried about Covid-19 scenario when lockdown ends

By THE NATION

 

Dr Taweesin Visanuyothin

 

The three Ts -- tracing, testing and treatment -- at the community level hold the key to Thailand winning the battle to contain Covid-19, the spokesman of the government’s Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) said, while revealing three scenarios the Ministry of Public Health has projected from now until September.

 

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Thai pop star to the rescue in his jimjams as car burns

 

 

Image: Sanook

 

Sanook exported that famous Thai singer Teh Utain rushed out of his house in Huah Kwang when a car in the street burst into flames.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1164440-thai-pop-star-to-the-rescue-in-his-jimjams-as-car-burns/

 

Pattaya: Drunk driver caught on CCTV slamming into attendant at gas station then fleeing

 

 

Image: 77kaoded

 

Police were called a PTT gas station in the Theppasit area of Pattaya during the hours of curfew this morning after reports of an assault 

 

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Pattaya: It's full of desperate and starving homeless people who threaten resurgence of Covid-19, says Thai media.

 

 

Image: 77kaoded

 

Thai media 77kaoded toured Pattaya last night and found many homeless people on the streets.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1164446-pattaya-its-full-of-desperate-and-starving-homeless-people-who-threaten-resurgence-of-covid-19-says-thai-media/

 

 

Over 220kg of marijuana seized in Bangkok following sting operation

By THE NATION

 

 

Police officers seized bricks of dried marijuana weighing 221 kilograms at a house in Lam Toi Ting subdistrict in Bangkok’s Nongjok district on Friday (May 15).

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1164448-over-220kg-of-marijuana-seized-in-bangkok-following-sting-operation/

 

Airport Rail Link extends service hours

By THE NATION

 

 

The Airport Rail Link service would be available from 5.30am to 10.30pm from Sunday (May 17), after the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration announced on Friday (May 15) that the curfew hours will be reduced from 10pm to 4am to 11pm to 4am.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1164449-airport-rail-link-extends-service-hours/

 

Italy to allow travel to and from abroad from June 3

By Angelo Amante

 

FILE PHOTO: A woman wearing a face mask walks in a street, as Italy begins to ease some of the restrictions of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown, in Taormina, Italy, May 12, 2020. REUTERS/Antonio Parrinello

 

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's government on Saturday approved a decree which will allow travel to and from abroad from June 3, in a major development as it moves to unwind one of the world's most rigid coronavirus lockdowns.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1164454-italy-to-allow-travel-to-and-from-abroad-from-june-3/

 

Thailand reports no new coronavirus cases, no additional deaths

 

 

FILE PHOTO: People queue up to have their temperature taken before entering the Ratchada Railway Night Market, which is reopening amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, after the Thai government eased isolation measures, in Bangkok, Thailand, May 15, 2020. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand on Saturday reported no new coronavirus cases or deaths as the country begins to reopen businesses and ease restrictions.

 

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