State and Private Sectors Launch Campaign to Curb COVID-19 Pandemic

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - PTT group has launched the "One Breath (Lom Hai Jai Diao Kan)" campaign, which is a state–private collaboration in opening a screening unit and field hospitals to help ease the COVID-19 crisis.

 

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Thailand Expects to Boost Rice Export to Malaysia

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Department of Foreign Trade (DFT) has expected that a drop in prices and a bigger, better harvest would boost the export of Thai rice to Malaysia.

 

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State Enterprises Invest over Bt100 Billion in Energy Infrastructure Projects

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The State Enterprise Policy Office reports that state enterprises have invested more than 100 billion baht in energy infrastructure projects, under the government’s economic stimulus policy, in the first half of the year.

 

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Prime Minister Is Worried over Rising Contaminated Waste in Bangkok

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is worried over the rising amount of contaminated waste in Bangkok, averaging around 100,000kg per day.

 

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Thailand projects doubling of daily coronavirus infections next month

 

FILE PHOTO: People queue at the Central Vaccination Center as Thailand opens walk-in for first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccination scheme for elders, people with a minimum weight of 100 kilograms and pregnant women amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in Bangkok, Thailand, July 26, 2021. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/File Photo

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand could see coronavirus cases double to 45,000 per day by early next month, even with current lockdown measures in place, its COVID-19 taskforce said on Friday, as authorities urged people to stay home to reduce infection risks.

 

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334 die post COVID-19 inoculation, 278 confirmed not linked to vaccine

 

 

A total of 334 people have died after they were inoculated against COVID-19, but posthumous tests have confirmed 278 cases were not linked to the vaccines, while the remaining cases are still being examined, according to Dr. Chawetsan Namwat, emergency health hazards and diseases of Disease Control Department today (Friday).

 

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"Fish Bank", a home for crabs from overfishing

 

 

In an effort by the forest dwellers in Bang Srakao, Chantaburi region, to protect their only source of livelihood on which they depend by fishing for marine life, whose numbers have begun to decline, due to the greed of fishermen who come with their boats from other areas to catch crabs and other types of fish, the villagers of Bang Srakao resorted to constructing water barriers to prevent outside boats from storming the marine life nurseries in their area, in which much marine life congregate in and around the barriers. They also put old tires and tied them together to ban overfishing boats.

 

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Thai protesters spar with police in march on PM's residence

 

Demonstrators burn items during a protest for the government's handling of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Bangkok, Thailand August 13, 2021. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police clashed with demonstrators on Friday after hundreds defied a ban on gatherings to rally in central Bangkok, where they attempted to march on the prime minister's residence to demand his resignation over the country's coronavirus crisis.

 

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Foreign woman rescued from dangerous Phuket surf

 

The woman was caught in a dangerous rip current near the rocks at the beach. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: Lifeguards at Surin Beach in Cherng Talay are urging all beachgoers to swim only between the red-yellow flags after a foreign woman was rescued from a dangerous rip current late yesterday afternoon (Aug 12).

 

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