Typhoon Molave packs a punch in Ubon

By The Nation

 

 

Typhoon Molave showed its destructive power in Ubon Ratchathani on Thursday, knocking down a big tree which crushed nearby vehicles and cut electrical cables.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189653-typhoon-molave-packs-a-punch-in-ubon/

 

Two foreigners among four found positive

By The Nation

 

 

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration on Thursday reported four new cases in quarantine over a 24-hour period.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189660-covid-19-two-foreigners-among-four-found-positive/

 

Corpse of missing man found in Krabi, wife convinced of murder

By The Nation

 

 

A man who has been missing since May was finally found in Krabi province last Saturday – dead.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189661-corpse-of-missing-man-found-in-krabi-wife-convinced-of-murder/

 

Phuket Carnival hoped to help local businesses

By The Phuket News

 

The eight-day carnival, now in its 34th year, will begin this Sunday (Nov 1), Patong Mayor Chalermluck Kebsup announced on Tuesday (Oct 27).

 

PHUKET: Officials are hoping that the Phuket Carnival, the festival held in Patong each year traditionally to mark the beginning of the tourism high season, will lure some 15,000 to 30,000 people to the island, and generate at least B120 million for the local economy.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189663-phuket-carnival-hoped-to-help-local-businesses/

 

'Who the hell elected you?' U.S. Senate tech hearing becomes political showdown

By Nandita Bose and David Shepardson

 

Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS) speaks to U.S. Senator John Thune (R-SD) during the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing 'Does Section 230's Sweeping Immunity Enable Big Tech Bad Behavior?', on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S., October 28, 2020. Greg Nash/Pool via REUTERS

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate hearing to reform an internet law and hold tech companies accountable for how they moderate content quickly turned into a political scuffle as lawmakers not only went after the companies but also attacked each other.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189689-who-the-hell-elected-you-us-senate-tech-hearing-becomes-political-showdown/

 

MP Pareena refuses to budge from her pro-govt stance in televised debate with pro-democracy activist

By THE NATION

 

Pareena Kraikupt

 

Pro-democracy activist Pasarawalee Thanakitwibulpol said the government should listen closely to the voice of the people, while Palang Pracharat MP Pareena Kraikupt responded by saying the government has listened, but can’t meet any demands apart from the one on charter amendment.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189691-mp-pareena-refuses-to-budge-from-her-pro-govt-stance-in-televised-debate-with-pro-democracy-activist/

 

Reconciliation committee just govt’s excuse to buy time, says Pheu Thai

By THE NATION

 

Prasert Chantarawongthong

 

Key opposition party, Pheu Thai, announced on Thursday that it will have nothing to do with the reconciliation committee that the Cabinet decided was necessary to resolve the ongoing political crisis.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189692-reconciliation-committee-just-govt’s-excuse-to-buy-time-says-pheu-thai/

 

Police comb through home of popular ‘gambler’ after alleged shooting

By The Nation

 

 

The police searched the house of popular “gambler” Apirak Chat-arnon, who allegedly shot two people at a massage parlour in Bangkok’s Phasi Charoen district on Wednesday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189694-bangkok-police-comb-through-home-of-popular-‘gambler’-after-alleged-shooting/

 

Sleepy truck driver goes headlong into a building in Phrae

By THE NATION

 

 

A truck crashed into a building in Phrae province early on Thursday after the driver dozed off behind the wheel.

 

Source: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189695-sleepy-truck-driver-goes-headlong-into-a-building-in-phrae/

 

Thanathorn, former FWP leaders to be tried over protest

By THE NATION

 

 

The Pathumwan Municipal Court has agreed to try former members of the Future Forward Party (FWP) on charges related to a flash-mob protest in Pathumwan last December.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189697-thanathorn-former-fwp-leaders-to-be-tried-over-protest/

 

NACC panel to look into govt agency’s suspicious Bt112 bn deal for surgical gloves

By The Nation

 

 

The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has set up a committee to look into allegations of corruption in a Bt112-billion deal for surgical gloves between the Public Warehouse Organisation (PWO) and a private company.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189701-nacc-panel-to-look-into-govt-agency’s-suspicious-bt112-bn-deal-for-surgical-gloves/

 

Thai Health Ministry to tighten anti-COVID-19 measures at quarantine facilities

 

 

Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health is considering adjustments to the COVID-19 preventive measures at more than 100 hotels under the alternative state quarantine programme, as well as any use of common facilities by those in quarantine at such locations. The move is to avoid a repeat of an incident in Samut Prakan province, where coronavirus was found on fitness equipment and three people staying there, including a French tourist, were found to be infected.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189705-thai-health-ministry-to-tighten-anti-covid-19-measures-at-quarantine-facilities/

 

BREAKING

 

Three dead as woman beheaded in knife attack at French church

By Eric Gaillard

 

Police officers secure the area after a reported knife attack at Notre Dame church in Nice, France, October 29, 2020. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard

 

NICE, France (Reuters) - A woman was beheaded by an attacker with a knife who also killed two other people at a church in the French city of Nice on Thursday, police said, in an incident the city's mayor described as terrorism.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189716-three-dead-as-woman-beheaded-in-knife-attack-at-french-church/

 

Committee Agrees to Reduce Travel Quarantine

 

 

BANGKOK, Oct 29 (TNA) – The National Communicable Disease Committee agreed to reduce travel quarantine to 10 days from 14 days in Thursday’s meeting, said Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Ministry Anutin  Charnvirakul.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189724-committee-agrees-to-reduce-travel-quarantine/

 

Molave Downgraded into Depression

 

 

BANGKOK, Oct 29 (TNA) –  The tropical storm Molave has been downgraded into the Category 2 Tropical depression over Ubon Ratchathani , said the Meteorological Department.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189726-molave-downgraded-into-depression/

 

Britain says it is doing everything it can to avoid national lockdown

By Sarah Young and Kate Holton

 

People wearing protective face masks walk across Westminster Bridge, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in London, Britain, October 22, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will do everything it can to avoid ordering a second national COVID-19 lockdown because it believes it will do more harm than good to the country, a minister said on Thursday.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189728-britain-says-it-is-doing-everything-it-can-to-avoid-national-lockdown/

 

Tests find French woman did not contract Covid-19 in Samut Prakan hotel

By The Nation

 

Dr Sopon Iamsirithaworn

 

Dr Sopon Iamsirithaworn, director of the Disease Control Department’s Bureau of General Communicable Diseases, said on Thursday the French patient’s test did not match that of two other foreign guests at the same hotel who tested positive. He said tests showed the woman had contracted the infection 17 days earlier, which rules out the Samut Prakan hotel.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189729-tests-find-french-woman-did-not-contract-covid-19-in-samut-prakan-hotel/

 

Vietnam troops hunts for survivors after typhoon kills 31

By Phuong Nguyen

 

A man bikes past a broken sign as the Typhoon Molave lashes Vietnam's coast in Binh Chau village, Quang Ngai province October 28, 2020. REUTERS/Thanh Hue

 

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam hunted for survivors on Thursday after landslides triggered by Typhoon Molave, one of its strongest storms in decades, lashed a central region already reeling from weeks of heavy rains that have killed at least 160 people.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189730-vietnam-troops-hunts-for-survivors-after-typhoon-kills-31/

 

Singapore firm invents coronavirus breathalyser with results in seconds

By Chen Lin

 

A staff member demonstrates the usage of Breathonix breathalyzer test kit developed by Breathonix, a start-up by the National University of Singapore, able to detect the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) within a minute according to the company, at their laboratory in Singapore October 29, 2020. REUTERS/Chen Lin

 

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A company in Singapore has developed a breathalyser test for the new coronavirus which it says will enable people to know whether they are infected in under a minute.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189731-singapore-firm-invents-coronavirus-breathalyser-with-results-in-seconds/

 

Asia's aspiring 'green-collar' workers hope for jobs in COVID recovery

By Beh Lih Yi

 

Farmers plant rice sprouts in a paddy field in Nakhon Sawan province, north of Bangkok May 4, 2008. Thailand plans to stick to its policy of not curbing rice exports, Commerce Minister Mingkwan Sangsuwan said on Saturday, forecasting a higher volume of sales this year as world demand grows. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom (THAILAND) - GM1E45419BW01

 

KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Singapore-based website tapping into the growing demand for environmentally careers in Asia is hoping it would be the link to "meaningful" employments as countries try to revive economies hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189733-asias-aspiring-green-collar-workers-hope-for-jobs-in-covid-recovery/

 

Bangkok Airways to start Krabi flights from Sunday

By The Nation

 

 

Bangkok Airways announced on Thursday that it will start flying to Krabi daily from Sunday onwards, and that all measures to contain the spread of Covid-19 will be strictly observed.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189735-bangkok-airways-to-start-krabi-flights-from-sunday/

 

New team to review criteria for state quarantine sites after signs of possible risk found

By The Nation

 

Dr Tares Krassanairawiwong

 

The Public Health Ministry has set up a panel to assess the 101 alternative state quarantine centres (ASQs) and see if allowing quarantined people to use hotel facilities will put others at risk.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189705-thai-health-ministry-to-tighten-anti-covid-19-measures-at-quarantine-facilities/?do=findComment&comment=15955813

 

Thailand-China ink High Speed Rail deal

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Thailand and China signed a rail construction, train procurement, and personnel training contract for a Bangkok - Nakhon Ratchasima High Speed Rail service on the northeastern line. The Prime Minister said the project will help promote the economy, improve connectivity, and enhance person-to-person relations.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189736-thailand-china-ink-high-speed-rail-deal/

 

Bangkok prepares for another wave of smog

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Following an increase PM 2.5 fine airborne dust, City Hall has installed air quality measuring stations in all 50 Bangkok districts and reintroduced measures aimed at limiting air pollution.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189737-bangkok-prepares-for-another-wave-of-smog/

 

NCSWT Hosts Helmet-Wearing Promotion Video Competition

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The National Council on Social Welfare of Thailand (NCSWT) is concerned about the importance of wearing a helmet while riding a motorcycle, especially young riders, so the organization is hosting a video clip competition as a helmet wearing promotion.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189738-ncswt-hosts-helmet-wearing-promotion-video-competition/

 

Drinking buddy row ends with scythe attack

By Eakkapop Thongtub

 

The scythe used in the incident. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET:-- A man is recovering at Vachira Phuket Hospital after a friend he had been drinking with struck him in the face with a scythe in Rassada last night.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189739-drinking-buddy-row-ends-with-scythe-attack/

 

'Mail-in ballot' and 'hand sanitizer': Halloween costume makers get creative

By Priya Elan

 

Halloween decorations in Palmyra, New Jersey. Photograph: Michael Perez/AP

 

2020 has been a tumultuous year full of massive change, and more than the usual amount of disaster and trauma. But it has been a gift to makers of Halloween costumes.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189742-mail-in-ballot-and-hand-sanitizer-halloween-costume-makers-get-creative/

 

Stardust: David Bowie fans react to ‘horrific' first biopic trailer featuring Johnny Flynn as Bowie

By Louis Chilton

 

 

The first trailer for the forthcoming David Bowie biopic Stardust has dropped, giving audiences their first proper look at Johnny Flynn’s Bowie.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189743-stardust-david-bowie-fans-react-to-‘horrific-first-biopic-trailer-featuring-johnny-flynn-as-bowie/

 

Forest Whitaker: ‘A lot of the issues that they were fighting for in the Sixties are the same now’

By Alexandra Pollard

 

Forest Whitaker: ‘The way I work as an actor is to dive down deep into the character and then surrender’

 (AFP/Getty)

 

The world didn’t need another mob drama. Or so you may think. The Godfather, Goodfellas, Scarface, The Sopranos: they’ve already barged their way, guns blazing, to the top of most “best films and TV shows of all time” lists.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1189745-forest-whitaker-‘a-lot-of-the-issues-that-they-were-fighting-for-in-the-sixties-are-the-same-now’/

 

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