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CP’s big boss urges govt to court rich investors for post-Covid era

By THE NATION

 

Dhanin Chearavanont

 

Dhanin Chearavanont has advised the government to lure those rich persons and investors to invest in technologies after the Covid-19 is resolved.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165230-cp’s-big-boss-urges-govt-to-court-rich-investors-for-post-covid-era/

 

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Govt unveils ‘business class’ quarantine option

By The Nation

 

Photo credit: freepik

 

Wealthy returnees are being given the choice of a luxury upgrade for their mandatory quarantine, the government’s Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) revealed on Thursday (May 21).

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165190-govt-unveils-‘business-class’-quarantine-option/

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Heat inside car parked in sunlight ‘can kill most of the virus’, says professor

By The Nation

 

 

A new study by the University of Georgia in the US shows that the heat inside a parked car on a sunny day can kill 99.99 per cent of the novel coronavirus.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165193-heat-inside-car-parked-in-sunlight-‘can-kill-most-of-the-virus’-says-professor/

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Pattaya City to hold second public hearing on monorail project

By The Nation

 

 

Pattaya City will hold a second public hearing on its monorail project on May 22 to 24.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165197-pattaya-city-to-hold-second-public-hearing-on-monorail-project/

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Phuket arrests for breaking curfew breach 1,600

By Eakkapop Thongtub

 

Territorial Defense volunteers on the street in Phuket Town overnight. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET:-- The total number of people arrested in Phuket for breaking the national nightly has breached 1,600, Phuket Provincial Police have reported.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165207-phuket-arrests-for-breaking-curfew-breach-1600/

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Public Health and Education ministries prepare to reopen schools on July 1st

 

 

The Thai Ministry of Public Health has been coordinating with the Education Ministry to make preparations for the reopening of schools nation-wide on July 1st, to ensure the safety of students during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165232-public-health-and-education-ministries-prepare-to-reopen-schools-on-july-1st/

 

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Draft contract for Eastern Airport City and U-Tapao airport projects endorsed

 

 

Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) Policy Committee today approved the draft joint venture contract for the development of the 290-billion baht Eastern Airport City and U-Tapao airport project.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165233-draft-contract-for-eastern-airport-city-and-u-tapao-airport-projects-endorsed/

 

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Deputy PM Prawit proceeds with forest restoration project in Chiang Mai

 

   

CHIANG MAI (NNT) - The Deputy Prime Minister, Gen. Prawit Wongsuwan, together with people from various sectors, have planted ironwood trees to help restore fire-ravaged forests in the northern province of Chiang Mai.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165234-deputy-pm-prawit-proceeds-with-forest-restoration-project-in-chiang-mai/

 

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Man injured by kitchen explosion, leaking gas cylinder suspected

By Eakkapop Thongtub

 

The force of the blast blew out the shopfront windows, brought down celing panels and displaced roofing tiles. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: Police believe that a gas leak caused an explosion that injured a man when he turned the kitchen light on at his shophouse home in Grand Boat Plaza village in Rassada early this morning (May 21).

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165235-man-injured-by-kitchen-explosion-leaking-gas-cylinder-suspected/

 

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Global COVID-19 trial of hydroxychloroquine, which Trump takes, begins

By Kylie MacLellan and Kay Johnson

 

FILE PHOTO: A nurse shows a Hydroxychloroquine pill, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at Nossa Senhora da Conceicao hospital in Porto Alegre, Brazil, April 23, 2020. REUTERS/Diego Vara/File Photo

 

LONDON/BANGKOK (Reuters) - Healthcare workers in Britain and Thailand have started taking part in a trial to determine whether two anti-malarial drugs can prevent COVID-19, including one that U.S. President Donald Trump says he has been taking.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165236-global-covid-19-trial-of-hydroxychloroquine-which-trump-takes-begins/

 

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EEC mega projects will pull up the economy: Somkid

By THE NATION

 

Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak

 

The government should push ahead with the mega infrastructure projects in the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) as they are key to pulling the country out of economic trouble in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis, Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak said after meeting with the EEC Policy Committee on Thursday (May 21).

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165238-eec-mega-projects-will-pull-up-the-economy-somkid/

 

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Beijing moves to impose new national security law on Hong Kong after anti-China unrest

By James Pomfret and Yew Lun Tian

 

FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators protesting the proposed extradition bill aim their flashlights towards riot police as they are chased through the streets of Hong Kong, China, August 25, 2019. Reuters has been awarded the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography for Hong Kong protests. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

 

HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - China is set to impose new national security legislation on Hong Kong after last year's often violent pro-democracy unrest that plunged the city into its deepest turmoil since it returned to Beijing rule in 1997, a Chinese official said on Thursday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165241-beijing-moves-to-impose-new-national-security-law-on hong kong after-anti-china-unrest/

 

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U.S. pulls out of Open Skies treaty, Trump's latest treaty withdrawal

By Steve Holland and Jonathan Landay

 

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic response during a meeting with Kansas Governor Laura Kelly and Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson in the Cabinet Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 20, 2020. REUTERS/Leah Millis

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday it will withdraw from the 35-nation Open Skies treaty allowing unarmed surveillance flights over member countries, the Trump administration's latest move to pull the country out of a major global treaty.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165242-us-pulls-out-of-open-skies-treaty-trumps-latest-treaty-withdrawal/

 

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Trump visits Ford plant in politically crucial Michigan, leaves mask off for cameras

By Jeff Mason and Ben Klayman

 

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak during a visit at the Ford Rawsonville Components Plant, which is making ventilators and medical supplies, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Ypsilanti, Michigan, U.S., May 21, 2020. REUTERS/Leah Millis

 

YPSILANTI, Mich. (Reuters) - President Donald Trump traveled on Thursday to the crucial U.S. election battleground state of Michigan to visit a Ford Motor Co <F.N> plant amid tensions with its Democratic governor during the coronavirus pandemic, opting not to wear a protective face mask for the cameras.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165243-trump-visits-ford-plant-in-politically-crucial-michigan-leaves-mask-off-for-cameras/

 

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Shooting at U.S. Navy base in Texas 'terrorism related' - FBI

 

Police officers stand at a checkpoint after a shooting incident at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, U.S. May 21, 2020. Annie Rice/Caller-Times/USA TODAY NETWORK via REUTERS. 

 

(Reuters) - A shooting at a U.S. Navy base in Corpus Christi, Texas, that wounded a sailor on Thursday was "terrorism related," an FBI spokeswoman said, adding that the gunman was dead at the scene but investigators were searching for a potential second suspect.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165244-shooting-at-us-navy-base-in-texas-terrorism-related-fbi/

 

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Cooperatives dept negotiates payment plan for THAI debenture holders

By The Nation

 

 

The Cooperatives Promotion Department will negotiate payment plans with 82 cooperatives that have bought Thai Airways International (THAI) debentures.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165252-cooperatives-dept-negotiates-payment-plan-for-thai-debenture-holders/

 

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Pattaya: ‘Motorcycle taxi guy' grabs all farang's donation money and flees

 

Picture: one31

 

Thai media went to Jomtien beach to investigate after a musician posted on Facebook that a Thai man had run off with all the money being handed out to a queue of desperate people by a farang in Jomtien.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165259-pattaya-‘motorcycle-taxi-guy-grabs-all-farangs-donation-money-and-flees/

 

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Busted! Eighteen Thais arrested running an online gambling operation at a luxury pool villa outside Pattaya

 

 

Na Jomtien police headed by Pol Col Prasertsuk Hengsuwan and tech police raided a two story pool villa being used as an online gambling center yesterday evening.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165265-busted-eighteen-thais-arrested-running-an-online-gambling-operation-at-a-luxury-pool-villa-outside-pattaya/

 

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Helping SMEs, job creation the thrust of new industrial promotion programme

By THE NATION

 

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The Department of Industrial Promotion (DIP) is organising a 90-day industrial promotion programme to help 4,000 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), boost local businesses in 11 communities and create 6,000 jobs.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165266-helping-smes-job-creation-the-thrust-of-new-industrial-promotion-programme/

 

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We want to learn! Kids without TV stick a phone on the wall for their online lessons

 

Picture: Daily News

 

School children on Koh Lanta in Krabi came up with the solution for their online learning when a relative's TV went on the blink.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165268-we-want-to-learn-kids-without-tv-stick-a-phone-on-the-wall-for-their-online-lessons/

 

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Is Afternoon Delight on the menu for bored Brits in lockdown?

Research suggests that each of us is reacting differently to being couped up

David Buckley

 

The scene in Anchorman where Ron Burgundy and other members of the TV team burst into song. Picture: YouTube.com

 

I appreciate that it is not very romantic to describe love making as a cure for boredom, but it seems that being stuck indoors during the coronavirus lockdown may have turned many a couple’s thoughts to love, or should that be lust?

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165272-is-afternoon-delight-on-the-menu-for-bored-brits-in-lockdown/

 

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TAT’s language training prepares Thai tourism personnel ready for post-COVID-19 era

Online Spanish and Portuguese lessons from Chulalongkorn and Thammasat Universities.

TAT Newsroom

 

 

Bangkok – The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is organising Spanish and Portuguese language training courses online for 150 tourism industry staff, conducted by two of the country’s best universities, the Faculty of Arts at Chulalongkorn University and the Faculty of Liberal Arts at Thammasat University.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165274-tat’s-language-training-prepares-thai-tourism-personnel-ready-for-post-covid-19-era/

 

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Hua Hin: Couple busted on train carrying 19 kilos of “ice" worth 10 million baht

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Thailand's railway police busted a young couple caught with 19 kilos of methamphetamine on a south bound train at Hua Hin railway station.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165276-hua-hin-couple-busted-on-train-carrying-19-kilos-of-“ice-worth-10-million-baht/

 

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Not wearing a mask: Lottery seller attacks "jobsworth" with a coffee cup

 

Picture: Sanook

 

A municipal worker who is part of a team touring markets in Suphanburi as part of Covid-19 restrictions went to the police yesterday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165279-not-wearing-a-mask-lottery-seller-attacks-jobsworth-with-a-coffee-cup/

 

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Prison wardens fired over corruption - one allowed inmate to have sex with his wife during visit

 

 

Twelve prison staff have been thrown out of the service after a disciplinary meeting heard allegations against 15 corrections' department employees. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165280-prison-wardens-fired-over-corruption-one-allowed-inmate-to-have-sex-with-his-wife-during-visit/

 

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Irrigation dept bets on big rice harvest this year

By The Nation

 

 

The Royal Irrigation Department expects more rain this year and a harvest of 24 million tonnes of rice.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165281-irrigation-dept-bets-on-big-rice-harvest-this-year/

 

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'No change in plan for MRO at U-Tapao Airport'

By THE NATION

 

 

The proposed maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) project at the U-Tapao Airport will proceed as planned despite Thai Airways International (THAI) entering a business rehabilitation programme, Eastern Economic Corridor Office (EECO) secretary-general Kanit Sangsubhan said.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165233-draft-contract-for-eastern-airport-city-and-u-tapao-airport-projects-endorsed/?do=findComment&comment=15438746

 

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Som Tam seller's past catches up with her - Thai police move on two decades old case

 

Picture: Naew Na

 

Naew Na reported that officers of the Crime Suppression Division arrested a 37 year old Som Tam (papaya salad) seller in Pratuchai sub-district of Ayuthaya.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165284-som-tam-sellers-past-catches-up-with-her-thai-police-move-on-two-decades-old-case/

 

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Govt opens two-month window to let Myanmar workers return home

By THE NATION

 

 

Myanmar workers stranded in Thailand will be able to travel from Bangkok to Tak province between May 22 to July 20, to facilitate their return to their motherland across the border in Tak.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165288-thai-govt-opens-two-month-window-to-let-myanmar-workers-return-home/

 

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Thailand reports no new coronavirus cases, no new deaths

 

FILE PHOTO: Passengers embark from a train at a station, after the Thai government eased isolation measures, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Bangkok, Thailand May 18, 2020. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/File photo

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand on Friday reported no new coronavirus infections or deaths, maintaining the total of 3,037 confirmed cases and 56 fatalities since the outbreak started in January.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1165294-thailand reports-no-new-coronavirus-cases-no-new-deaths/