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PM delivers Industry Awards 2020

 

   

The Prime Minister has delivered this year’s Industry Awards to companies demonstrating a remarkable performance, stressing the government’s preparedness to upgrade the country’s industrial sector.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196843-pm-prayut-delivers-industry-awards-2020/

 

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Fisherman in coma after lightning strike at Rayong beach

 

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A fisherman is in ICU fighting for his life in a coma after a lightning strike at Hat Laem beach in Cherng Nern sub-district of Muang district Rayong yesterday. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196844-fisherman-in-coma-after-lightning-strike-at-rayong-beach/

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Thai business woman says she was defrauded of 42 million baht by medium

 

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A female owner of a roofing business has gone to a top lawyer to complain that she was defrauded of 42 million baht over many years by a medium called Sim, 34. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196845-thai-business-woman-says-she-was-defrauded-of-42-million-baht-by-medium/

 

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Legal hurdle blocks transfer of state-run airports to AOT

By THE NATION

 

 

A plan to transfer airports run by the Department of Airports (DOA) to Airports of Thailand Plc (AOT) would have to be shelved as there was no law allowing the transfer of government-run airports to a public company, AOT president Nitinai Sirismatthakarn said on Monday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196846-legal-hurdle-blocks-transfer-of-state-run-airports-to-aot/

 

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Construction of key transport hub Bang Sue Central Station completed

By THE NATION

 

 

Civil construction of Bang Sue Central Station, which will serve as the hub of high-speed train connecting three airports (Don Mueang, Suvarnabhumi and U-Tapao), as well as the 10 stations of the Red Line urban train route, is now 100 per cent complete.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196860-construction-of-key-transport-hub-bang-sue-central-station-completed/

 

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Video: PR lady, 19, kicked in the face by Thai man out to collect a debt

 

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A mother and her daughter have gone to the Khon Kaen police after a ferocious attack at a sports stadium in the north eastern Thai city at the weekend. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196862-video-pr-lady-19-kicked-in-the-face-by-thai-man-out-to-collect-a-debt/

 

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Phuket officials aim for zero road deaths over New Year holidays

By The Phuket News

 

Police checkpoints will be set up across the island from Dec 29 to Jan 4 as officers enforce the Seven Days of Danger road-safety campaign for the New Year. Photo: The Phuket News / file

 

PHUKET: Phuket’s leading officials have set zero deaths from road accidents as the goal to be achieved during the Seven Days of Danger road-safety campaign this New Year, to be enforced from Dec 29 to Jan 4.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196864-phuket-officials-aim-for-zero-road-deaths-over-new-year-holidays/

 

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Video: "Spidermia" jumps on husband's car abandoning kids after marital tiff

 

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Thai social media was abuzz after a video was posted online showing a woman hanging onto a Honda Jazz as it drove off startling many people at a busy Kanchanaburi market. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196868-video-spidermia-jumps-on-husbands-car-abandoning-kids-after-marital-tiff/

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Family of accident victim say surgery was performed without their consent - signature was a fake

 

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A distraught family of a young man who has died after an accident claimed that a government hospital in Samut Prakan faked a signature on a surgery consent form. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196874-family-of-accident-victim-say-surgery-was-performed-without-their-consent-signature-was-a-fake/

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Thailand Road Carnage: NINETY FOUR reported dead on Monday - nearly a MILLION injured this year

 

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Staggering statistics from an Ubon Ratchathani accident site online said that 94 people had been reported dead in 24 hours from midnight to midnight on Monday. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196877-thailand-road-carnage-ninety-four-reported-dead-on-monday-nearly-a-million-injured-this-year/

 

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Nine foreign arrivals test positive in quarantine

By The Nation

 

 

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration announced nine new cases over a 24-hour period on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196879-covid-19-nine-foreign-arrivals-test-positive-in-quarantine/

 

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Golf-Kim in no hurry to leave Houston after US Women's Open triumph

 

FILE PHOTO: Dec 14, 2020; Houston, Texas, USA; A Lim Kim takes a tee shot off the 10th tee box during the final round of the U.S. Women's Open golf tournament at Champions Golf Club. Mandatory Credit: Erik Williams-USA TODAY Sports

 

(Reuters) - U.S. Women's Open champion Kim A Lim likes the Champions Golf Club venue so much she said she wants to put up a tent and stay a few more days. With two weeks quarantine awaiting her back in South Korea it is no surprise she is reluctant to leave Houston.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196883-golf-kim-in-no-hurry-to-leave-houston-after-us-womens-open-triumph/

 

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Facebook post by medical staffer ruffles police feathers

By The Nation

 

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Police are considering pressing charges against a medical technician for allegedly falsely portraying the authorities in a bad light.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196886-facebook-post-by-medical-staffer-ruffles-police-feathers/

 

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Thai police admit 'giant' drug bust barely found a gram of ketamine

 

Officials view the seized 11.5 tonnes of ketamine, in the country's largest seizure ever, worth nearly 30 billion baht (~$991 million USD) at a warehouse in Chachoengsao, Thailand, November 12, 2020. Office of the Narcotics Control Board/Handout via REUTERS

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai authorities said on Tuesday that barely more than one gram (0.04 oz) of ketamine had been found in a seizure that police had initially believed contained over 12 tonnes of the drug worth almost $1 billion.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196899-thai-police-admit-giant-drug-bust-barely-found-a-gram-of-ketamine/

 

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Attacker of Udon Thani Grab delivery person confesses in detention

By The Nation

 

 

The man who stabbed a Grab delivery employee in Udon Thani province on Saturday has been arrested and confessed to the crime in detention.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196900-attacker-of-udon-thani-grab-delivery-person-confesses-in-detention/

 

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Nearly 700,000 households affected in southern floods

By The Nation

 

 

Floods in the southern region have affected 691,659 households and claimed the lives of 30 people, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation reported on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196901-nearly-700000-households-affected-in-southern-floods/

 

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Ex-boxer charged with attacking girl, kidnapping 2 women

By The Nation

 

 

A former boxer who assaulted a girl and two women in Kalasin province on December 13 has been arrested and charged with five serious crimes.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196905-ex-boxer-charged-with-attacking-girl-kidnapping-2-women/

 

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Geminids meteors light up dark Thai skies

By The Nation

 

Photos by Charoon Thongnual

 

Fireballs streaked across the night sky at Ban Krang Campsite in Phetchaburi's Kaeng Krachan National Park on Sunday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196906-geminids-meteors-light-up-dark-thai-skies/

 

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Phuket’s Sirinath among six national parks to be proposed for World Heritage status

By The Phuket News

 

A turtle crosses the sand at Haad Nah on Koh Miang in the Similan Islands National Park. Photo: DNP

 

PHUKET: The Phuket Provincial Government and officers at Sirinath National Park are preparing to propose six national parks along the Andaman coast to be recognised as UNESCO world heritage sites, including Sirinath National Park in Phuket.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196908-phuket’s-sirinath-among-six-national-parks-to-be-proposed-for-world-heritage-status/

 

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Suan Dusit Poll - Chiang Mai favorite travel destination among Thai people for New Year festival

 

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BANGKOK (NNT) - It is expected that a large number of people will travel during the New Year holidays, from December 31, 2020, to January 3, 2021. Suan Dusit poll conducted a survey which found that most popular destinations are in the North and everyone will travel cautiously in terms of spending and the COVID-19 situation.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196912-suan-dusit-poll-chiang-mai-favorite-travel-destination-among-thai-people-for-new-year-festival/

 

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THAI offers to help with transportation of Covid-19 vaccines

By The Nation

 

 

Thai Airways International (THAI) is ready to help public health and medical organisations transport Covid-19 vaccines both in and out of the country, acting president Chansin Treenuchagron said.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196914-thai-offers-to-help-with-transportation-of-covid-19-vaccines/

 

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One foreign diver deported, one clings on after Koh Pha-ngan eco assault

By The Nation

 

Immigration authorities have deported one of the two foreign divers who disturbed marine animals off Koh Pha-ngan in Surat Thani province in August. The other has appealed to stay on in Thailand.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196917-one-foreign-diver-deported-one-clings-on-after-koh-pha-ngan-eco-assault/

 

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Chula U to raise 500 million baht for factory to produce Thailand’s COVID-19 vaccine

 

 

Thailand’s Chulalongkorn University will launch a campaign this Friday to encourage members of the public to donate in support of an ambitious project for the development and production of Thailand’s domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine, to be produced from tobacco leaves.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196938-chula-u-to-raise-500-million-baht-for-factory-to-produce-thailand’s-covid-19-vaccine/

 

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Hard Efforts to Cope with Thick Smog

 

 

BANGKOK, Dec 15 (TNA) — The Pollution Control Department is seriously imposing regulations to try to curb smog, including a ban on outdoor burning in Bangkok and nearby provinces.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196939-hard-efforts-to-cope-with-thick-smog/

 

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Bangkok Has World’s 3rd Worst Air

 

 

BANGKOK, Dec 15 (TNA) – Thick PM2.5 dust blanketed Bangkok this morning, giving the capital the third position in the world’s worst air pollution rankings at 7 am. Tuesday.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196940-bangkok-has-world’s-3rd-worst-air/

 

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Singapore to open travel bubble as it prepares to stand in for Davos

By Aradhana Aravindan and Chen Lin

 

FILE PHOTO: A view of a cordoned off area at the Merlion Park is seen amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Singapore, May 27, 2020. REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo

 

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore is to allow a limited number of business, official and other "high economic value" travellers from around the world under a "bubble" arrangement that offers a glimpse into what visitors for this year's relocated Davos summit might expect.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196941-singapore-to-open-travel-bubble-as-it-prepares-to-stand-in-for-davos/

 

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Half of Singapore's migrant workers in dormitories have had COVID-19

 

FILE PHOTO: A migrant worker looks out from a walkway at a dormitory declared as an isolation area, during the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) in Singapore April 21, 2020. REUTERS/Edgar Su

 

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Nearly half of Singapore's migrant workers residing in dormitories have had COVID-19, according to the government, indicating the virus spread much more widely among those living in these accommodations than the official case tally shows.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196942-half-of-singapores-migrant-workers-in-dormitories-have-had-covid-19/

 

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Facebook, Twitter face British fines if fail on harmful content

 

FILE PHOTO: A 3D-printed Facebook dislike button is seen in front of a displayed Twitter logo in this illustration taken October 25, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Facebook, Twitter and TikTok face fines of up to 10% of turnover if they fail to remove and limit the spread of illegal content under laws proposed by Britain on Tuesday.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196943-facebook-twitter-face-british-fines-if-fail-on-harmful-content/

 

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COVID-19 prevalence rose in London even as lockdown cut English cases, study finds

 

People walk along Regent Street, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in London, Britain, December 14, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls

 

LONDON (Reuters) - COVID-19 cases rose in London during the last weeks of a national lockdown even as prevalence in England as a whole fell, a study said on Tuesday, adding that a planned relaxation of rules over Christmas posed risks.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196944-covid-19-prevalence-rose-in-london-even-as-lockdown-cut-english-cases-study-finds/

 

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No Ban on New Year Celebrations, Countdown Events

 

 

BANGKOK, Dec 15 (TNA) –  New Year celebrations and countdown events will be allowed to proceed  but organisers and revelers have to adhere to strict rules, said Opas Karnkawinpong, the Director-General of the Department of Disease Control (DDC).  

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1196945-no-ban-on-new-year-celebrations-countdown-events/