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Only 3.2% of Thais vaccinated against COVID-19 since Feb 28th suffer side effects

 

 

828, out of over 25,000 Thais, who were given COVID-19 vaccines have suffered side effects, according to the Disease Control Department.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208626-only-32-of-thais-vaccinated-against-covid-19-since-feb-28th-suffer-side-effects/

 

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Police probe shooting at police buses Saturday night after ReDem protest at Criminal Court

 

 

The Metropolitan Police have launched an investigation into who fired shots, damaging three police buses near the Ratchayothin tunnel, late on Saturday night.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208629-police-probe-shooting-at-police-buses-saturday-night-after-redem-protest-at-criminal-court/

 

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First group completes 14-day Golf Quarantine in Thailand

Strict COVID-19 prevention and control measures ensure the health and safety of all golfers and Thai support staff

TAT Newsroom

 

 

Bangkok, 07 March, 2021 – The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is pleased to report that the first group of 42 golfers (41 South Koreans and one Japanese) arrived in Thailand and entered golf quarantine on 19 February, 2021, have successfully completed their 14-day golf quarantine and have started their journey around the country from 6 March, 2021.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208630-first-group-completes-14-day-golf-quarantine-in-thailand/

 

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PM: Thailand not broke from COVID-19 measures

Paphamon Arayasukawat

 

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - The start of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Thailand has sparked optimism of an economic recovery. The Prime Minister said today that the government has continued to put measures in place to help affected people, while reassuring the general public the country’s financial stability remains good.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208631-pm-thailand-not-broke-from-covid-19-measures/

 

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Finance Ministry Designs Third Phase of Co-payment Subsidy Scheme

Paphamon Arayasukawat

 

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Finance Ministry is designing the third phase of the co-payment subsidy scheme to maintain economic recovery momentum.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208632-finance-ministry-designs-third-phase-of-co-payment-subsidy-scheme/

 

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Employment Department Offers over 56,000 Full-time Job Vacancies

Paphamon Arayasukawat

 

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Department of Employment has sourced 56,138 full-time job vacancies and 1,255 part-time vacancies from the private sector to help the unemployed during the Covid-19 crisis period.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208633-thai-employment-dept-offers-over-56000-full-time-job-vacancies/

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Thai Families Can Grow Six Pots of Cannabis Each as Rules Eased

By Prim Chuwiruch

 

Photographer: Luke Duggleby/Bloomberg

 

• Family communities to supply marijuana to medical institutions

• Recreational use remains banned as users face fines or jail

 

Thai households can now grow six pots of cannabis each to supplement their income, the nation’s health minister said, as the first country in the region to legalize medical marijuana further eased rules to promote the crop’s commercial use.

 

FUll story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208634-thai-families-can-grow-six-pots-of-cannabis-each-as-rules-eased/

 

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Thailand launches vaccine passport, inoculation drive for hotel staff

By Suchat Sritama

 

Hospitality workers in five tourist hotspots across Thailand included in first round of national vaccine drive

 

Thailand inches one step closer to reopening its international borders with the launch of a coronavirus vaccine passport on Thursday, and the continued rollout of the national vaccination drive, with plans to inoculate staff at 58 alternative local quarantine (ALQ) hotels within Q3.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208635-thailand-launches-vaccine-passport-inoculation-drive-for-hotel-staff/

 

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Thai Feb headline CPI drops 1.17% year-over-year, seen down again in March

 

FILE PHOTO: A mother and her daughter shop for bananas at a market in Bangkok, Thailand, March 31, 2016. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's headline consumer price index in February dropped a bigger than expected 1.17% from a year ago due to lower food prices and government measures to curb living costs, particularly utility bills, the commerce ministry said.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208637-thai-feb-headline-cpi-drops-117-year-over-year-seen-down-again-in-march/

 

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COVID-19 travel insurance becoming a vacation staple

By Allison Lampert and Noor Zainab Hussain

 

FILE PHOTO: Long-tail boats with tourists are seen in a beach in Koh Poda island near Krabi, Thailand October 22, 2019. REUTERS/Jorge Silva/File Photo

 

(Reuters) - COVID-19 insurance policies are increasingly joining passports and sunscreen as vacation staples, creating opportunities for insurers as more countries require mandatory coverage in case visitors fall ill from the coronavirus.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208638-more-than-a-dozen-countries-from-aruba-to-thailand-require-covid-19-coverage-for-visitors/

 

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French billionaire politician Olivier Dassault killed in helicopter crash

 

FILE PHOTO: French politician Olivier Dassault arrives for the screening of the film "Drive" during the 37th American Film Festival in Deauville September 3, 2011. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau/File Photo

 

PARIS (Reuters) - French billionaire Olivier Dassault was killed on Sunday in a helicopter crash, a police source said, with President Emmanuel Macron paying tribute to the 69-year old conservative politician.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208640-french-billionaire-politician-olivier-dassault-killed-in-helicopter-crash/

 

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Iran releases British-Iranian aid worker Zaghari-Ratcliffe from house arrest but court summons looms

 

A British-Iranian aid worker, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, poses for a photo after she was released from house arrest in Tehran, Iran March 7, 2021. Zaghari family/WANA/Handout via REUTERS

 

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has released British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe from house arrest at the end of her five-year prison sentence, but she has been summoned to court again on another charge, her lawyer said on Sunday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208641-iran-releases-british-iranian-aid-worker-zaghari-ratcliffe-from-house-arrest-but-court-summons-looms/

 

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Meghan and Harry to lift lid on royal split in Oprah interview

By Michael Holden

 

Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, are interviewed by Oprah Winfrey in this undated handout photo. Harpo Productions/Joe Pugliese/Handout via REUTERS

 

LONDON (Reuters) - A highly anticipated Oprah Winfrey interview with Prince Harry and his wife Meghan airs on U.S. television later on Sunday, amid what one royal watcher called a "toxic" atmosphere between the couple and the British monarchy.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208642-meghan-and-harry-to-lift-lid-on-royal-split-in-oprah-interview/

 

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'Not running away': Women fighting on Britain's COVID-19 front line

By Natalie Thomas and Lucy Marks

 

A combination picture shows East Lancashire NHS Trust healthcare workers posing for a portrait ahead of International Women's Day at The Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital in north west England, Britain. Pictures taken between March 2 and March 3, 2021. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

 

BLACKBURN, England (Reuters) - After a year that has shaken Britain's National Health Service to its core, women working at a hospital in the East Lancashire NHS Trust in England's north-west talk about what the coronavirus crisis has meant to them.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208643-not-running-away-women-fighting-on britains-covid-19-front-line/

 

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Unions call for total strike in Myanmar; Suu Kyi party official dies in custody

 

Protesters create a shield formation in Nyaung-U, Myanmar, March 7, 2021, in this still image from a video obtained from social media by Reuters

 

(Reuters) - Myanmar's major trade unions called on members to shut down the economy from Monday to back a campaign against last month's coup, raising pressure on the junta as its forces fired weapons and occupied hospitals in the main city Yangon after a day of massive protests.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208644-unions-call-for-total-strike-in myanmar-suu-kyi-party-official-dies-in-custody/

 

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Bitcoin rises 4.2% to $50,947.94

 

FILE PHOTO: A collection of bitcoin (virtual currency) tokens are displayed in this picture illustration taken Dec. 8, 2017. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/Illustration/File Photo

 

(Reuters) - Bitcoin rose 4.18 % to $50,947.94 on Sunday, adding $2,043.31 to its previous close.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208645-bitcoin-rises-42-to-5094794/

 

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Pattaya police raid popular popular entertainment venues 

 

Picture: Pattaya Message

 

Police in Pattaya on Saturday raided scores of bars and nightclubs in the city to ensure venues were not opening later than midnight.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208646-pattaya-police-raid-popular-popular-entertainment-venues/

 

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U.S. says Russian-backed outlets spread COVID-19 vaccine 'disinformation'

By Simon Lewis

 

FILE PHOTO: A health worker prepares a syringe with a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Calais as part of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination campaign in France, March 4, 2021. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has identified three online publications directed by Russia's intelligence services that it says are seeking to undermine COVID-19 vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna, a State Department spokeswoman said on Sunday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208647-us-says-russian-backed-outlets-spread-covid-19-vaccine-disinformation/

 

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Swiss agree to outlaw facial coverings in "burqa ban" vote

By Michael Shields

 

FILE PHOTO: A poster of the initiative committee against wearing the burqa (Verhuellungsverbot) reading "Stop extremism! Veil ban - Yes" is seen in Zurich Switzerland February 15, 2021. On March 7 Switzerland's voters will decide about a nationwide veil ban. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo

 

ZURICH (Reuters) - A far-right proposal to ban facial coverings in Switzerland won a narrow victory in a binding referendum on Sunday instigated by the same group that organised a 2009 ban on new minarets.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208648-swiss-agree-to-outlaw-facial-coverings-in-burqa-ban-vote/

 

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Top New York Democrats urge Cuomo to resign over sexual harassment allegations

By Barbara Goldberg and Steve Gorman

 

FILE PHOTO: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference at a vaccination site in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., February 22, 2021. Seth Wenig/Pool via REUTERS

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The two top Democrats in New York's state legislature said on Sunday that sexual harassment allegations leveled against Governor Andrew Cuomo by five women, most of them former aides, have undermined his ability to lead and he should resign.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208649-top-new-york-democrats-urge-cuomo-to-resign-over-sexual-harassment-allegations/

 

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Meghan says Kate, Prince William's wife, made her cry before wedding to Harry

 

FILE PHOTO: Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, are interviewed by Oprah Winfrey in this undated handout photo. Harpo Productions/Joe Pugliese/Handout via REUTERS

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Meghan, the wife of Britain's Prince Harry, said in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that Kate, who is married to Harry's brother Prince William, had made her cry just before her 2018 wedding.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208642-meghan-and-harry-to-lift-lid-on-royal-split-in-oprah-interview/?do=findComment&comment=16305407

 

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Transportation projects to help transform Pattaya into  state of the art metropolis

 

Picture: Manager

 

Pattaya - so long a backwater stuck in the past, especially when compared to go-ahead Bangkok - is set to be dragged screaming and kicking into the 21st century.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208663-transportation-projects-to-help-transform-pattaya-into- state-of-the-art-metropolis/

 

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Three killed in murder suicide in Chiang Mai

 

Picture: Manager

 

A luxury condominium in the Chang Pheuak area of downtown Chiang Mai was sealed off on Friday after a man wanted on a Bangkok warrant for fraud took two hostages.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208665-three-killed-in-murder-suicide-in-chiang-mai/

 

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People Are Advised to Observe Side-effects after Vaccination

Subhabhong Rarueysong

 

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - People inoculated with the Covid-19 vaccine must observe themselves for 30 minutes after the vaccination as the side-effects could be mild or severe.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208671-people-are-advised-to-observe-side-effects-after-vaccination/

 

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Only 1.5% of Inoculated People Have Adverse Reactions to Covid-19 Vaccine

Tarin Angskul

 

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - Very few people who have been inoculated against Covid-19 in the five days have had adverse reactions to the vaccine.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208626-only-32-of-thais-vaccinated-against-covid-19-since-feb-28th-suffer-side-effects/?do=findComment&comment=16305640

 

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DeChambeau got boost from Tiger Woods before Bay Hill win: 'just keep fighting'

 

Mar 7, 2021; Orlando, Florida, USA; Bryson DeChambeau holds the champions trophy after winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational golf tournament at Bay Hill Club & Lodge. Mandatory Credit: Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports

 

(Reuters) - American Bryson DeChambeau got a note of encouragement from Tiger Woods ahead of his nail-biter victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational tournament in Orlando, Florida, with the 15-time major winner texting him hours before the final round.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208675-dechambeau-got-boost-from-tiger-woods-before-bay-hill-win-just-keep-fighting/

 

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Massage woman's "love child" with customer at the center of custody battle - husband claims he knew nothing

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

A woman in Khon Kaen has gone to the police to allege that a man "stole" her daughter from a nursery.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208676-massage-womans-love-child-with-customer-at-the-center-of-custody-battle-husband-claims-he-knew-nothing/

 

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 New multi-storey car park to ease Pattaya’s car parking woes

 

Image: Sophon Cable TV

 

Pattaya's go ahead mayor was celebrating yet another boon for the resort's future.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208677-new-multi-storey-car-park-to-ease-pattaya’s-car-parking-woes/

 

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Pattaya fisherman reels in bag containing scores of IDs, bank cards and driving licenses

 

 

A man fishing for squid off Pattaya beach landed a very strange catch and took it to the Pattaya police.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208679-pattaya-fisherman-reels-in-bag-containing-scores-of-ids-bank-cards-and-driving-licenses/

 

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Brits banned from travelling internationally - including to Thailand

 

FILE PHOTO for reference only//Credit: Wanderlust

 

Last week, the Thai government unveiled its so-called ‘area quarantine’ plan which it hopes will attract more foreign tourists to Thailand.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1208681-brits-banned-from-travelling-internationally-including-to-thailand/