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Over 84% of Thailand’s COVID fatalities had not been vaccinated

 

 

Over 84% of those who have died from COVID-19 in Thailand were not vaccinated, or did not have an official record of vaccination, and 7.2% had received just one vaccine dose, according to the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231425-over-84-of-thailand’s-covid-fatalities-had-not-been-vaccinated/

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Private sector: Ko Phayam can become Phuket Sandbox, Samui Plus link

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The private sector in Ranong province, which is among the provinces along the Andaman coast, is proposing that Ko Phayam, an island off the coast of Ranong, should serve as a link for tourists participating in the Phuket Sandbox and Samui Plus tourism schemes.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231394-private-sector-ko-phayam-can-become-phuket-sandbox-samui-plus-link/

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New one stop govt service centre, including Immigration, to open at Bluport

 

Bluport. File Photo

 

A new one-stop government service centre is to open at Bluport Resort Mall in Hua Hin, it has been announced. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231431-new-one-stop-govt-service-centre-including-immigration-to-open-at-bluport/

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Thailand begins mass vaccination of pregnant women

 

 

The Ministry of Public Health will vaccinate as many as 100,000 pregnant women against COVID-19 between today (Monday September 13th) and October 13th, said Deputy Public Health Minister Sathit Pitutecha today.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231442-thailand-begins-mass-vaccination-of-pregnant-women/

 

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Two rebel Pheu Thai MPs may be expelled from party over no-confidence voting

 

 

The ethics committee of Thailand’s opposition Pheu Thai party decided today (Monday) to propose to the party’s executive committee the expulsion of two rebel MPs who did not vote in line with the party’s agreement in the no confidence motion earlier this month.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231443-two-rebel-pheu-thai-mps-may-be-expelled-from-party-over-no-confidence-voting/

 

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Surin offers elephant-back vaccine service

By Pear Maneechote

 

 

What makes for an unforgettable COVID-19 vaccination experience?

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231444-surin-offers-elephant-back-vaccine-service/

 

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K-pop Singer Lisa’s Remark Benefit Pork Ball Vendors

 

 

BURI RAM, Sept 13 (TNA) – Fried pork ball vendors in the northeastern province enjoyed rising sales as Thai-born K-pop singer Lalisa “Lisa” Manoban said in an interview that she wanted to eat fried pork balls here again if she happened to return to Thailand.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231445-k-pop-singer-lisa’s-remark-benefit-pork-ball-vendors/

 

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Two motorbikes collide in Don Hualor, all three people involved pass away

By Goong Nang(GN)

 

PHOTO: Tem446/ Nong Maidang rescue team

 

Chonburi – Three people, including an off-duty police officer from the Don Hualor police, have died after a two-vehicle accident in Don Hualor yesterday afternoon.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231446-two-motorbikes-collide-in-don-hualor-all-three-people-involved-pass-away/

 

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COVID-19 restrictions ramped up in Thap Sakae, new cluster found in Hua Hin

By Paul Andrews

 

 

As Hua Hin puts the final preparations in place for its reopening to vaccinated tourists on October 1, another district in Prachuap Khiri Khan has increased COVID-19 restrictions.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231449-covid-19-restrictions-ramped-up-in-thap-sakae-new-cluster-found-in-hua-hin/

 

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Bangkok’s ICONSIAM Ranked Among Top Four Best Shopping Centers in World

By Paul Andrews

 

 

Thailand’s much acclaimed ICONSIAM urban lifestyle development project has been ranked among the four best shopping centers in the world from among 172 entries from 36 countries at the MIPIM 2021 awards event held in Cannes, France, during September 8-9, 2021.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231450-bangkok’s-iconsiam-ranked-among-top-four-best-shopping-centers-in-world/

 

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Thailand tipped to be removed from UK’s ‘red list’

 

file photo: REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

 

There is renewed hope for British expats that travel restrictions between Thailand and the UK could be eased later this week.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231453-thailand-tipped-to-be-removed-from-uk’s-‘red-list’/

 

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Thailand reports 11,786 new COVID-19 cases

 

File photo: REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa

 

Thailand on Tuesday (September 14) reported 11,786 new COVID-19 cases, 14,738 recoveries and 136 additional deaths over the past 24 hours.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231455-thailand-reports-11786-new-covid-19-cases/

 

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Electoral change lights fuse for political explosion in Thai Parliament and government

 

Thai voters drop their ballots at a local polling station during the constitutional referendum in Bangkok on August 7, 2016. (Photo by MUNIR UZ ZAMAN / AFP)

 

An early general election has become more likely after Parliament voted on Friday (September 10) to approve a charter amendment bill that restores the two-ballot election system and alters the House of Representatives composition – changes expected to benefit larger parties in the next national vote.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231456-electoral-change-lights-fuse-for-political-explosion-in-thai-parliament-and-government/

 

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Funerals are the new cluster risk in Thai provinces, says CCSA

 

Picture: Thansettakij

 

Funerals represent a risk of cluster infections from Covid-19, Centre for Covid Situation Administration spokesman Taveesin Visanuyothin said yesterday.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231457-funerals-are-the-new-cluster-risk-in-thai-provinces-says-ccsa/

 

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Phuket marks 249 new COVID cases, deaths reach 40

By The Phuket News

 

Image: PPHO

 

PHUKET: The latest Phuket Provincial Public Health Office (PPHO) daily COVID situation report has marked 249 new local infections confirmed across the island yesterday (Sept 13) bringing the total number of people recognised as infected with COVID-19 in Phuket since Apr 3 to 7,353.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231458-phuket-marks-249-new-covid-cases-deaths-reach-40/

 

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MFA downplays terror threat alert issued to Japanese expats in Thailand

 

Thani Saengrat. Picture: Wasawat Lukharang/BBC THAI

 

The BBC's Thai news team reported that an email was sent to Japanese people in Thailand warning of a threat of a terrorist attack in the country.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231460-mfa-downplays-terror-threat-alert-issued-to-japanese-expats-in-thailand/

 

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State welfare card initiative unsuccessful in helping Thais fight poverty

By Panithan Onthaworn

 

 

Thailand’s state welfare card program has failed to reduce poverty, the Finance Ministry said this week, citing the economic downturn caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and rising unemployment. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231464-state-welfare-card-initiative-unsuccessful-in-helping-thais-fight-poverty/

 

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Amazing Thailand: School director bails teen gold shop robber for 15,000 baht

 

Picture: Sanook

 

The 17 year old high school student who robbed a gold shop in a shopping center on Rattanathibet Road has been bailed out for 15,000 baht by her school director.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231468-amazing-thailand-school-director-bails-teen-gold-shop-robber-for-15000-baht/

 

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Thailand Road Carnage: More booze bans and checkpoints needed - look at lockdown success

 

File photo: REUTERS

 

Rungarun Limlahaphan of the Thai Health Promotion Foundation said that Thailand needs to look at the lessons of lockdown from last and this year when road death stats dropped 10% and more.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231473-thailand-road-carnage-more-booze-bans-and-checkpoints-needed-look-at-lockdown-success/

 

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Finally! TAT proposes end to quarantine for foreign tourists and simplification of area requirements

 

Yutthasak Suphasorn. File photo: Tourism Authority of Thailand

 

The penny finally seems to have dropped at the Tourism Authority of Thailand, notes ASEAN NOW.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231482-finally-tat-proposes-end-to-quarantine-for-foreign-tourists-and-simplification-of-area-requirements/

 

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Hua Hin ready for "no quarantine" reopening to foreign tourists on Oct 1st - 86 sq km of freedom awaits!

 

Picture: Prachuap Post

 

Prachuap Post reported on Facebook about the plans to reopen the holiday resort town of Hua Hin in Prachuap Khiri Khan to foreign tourists - the Recharge Plan.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231484-hua-hin-ready-for-no-quarantine-reopening-to-foreign-tourists-on-oct-1st-86-sq-km-of-freedom-awaits/

 

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Last suspect in 10 million baht fake credit card scam arrested by DSI

 

Picture: Naew Na

 

Naew Na reported that the Department of Special Investigation had arrested on a warrant the last man in a gang that defrauded the SCB back in 2006.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231485-last-suspect-in-10-million-baht-fake-credit-card-scam-arrested-by-dsi/

 

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Thai police proudly show off 5.4 million Ya Ba and half a ton of ganja in two latest busts

 

Picture: Daily News

 

A large number of Thailand's RTP top brass turned out at a press conference to announce the resolution of two major drugs cases resulting in five arrests.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231488-thai-police-proudly-show-off-54-million-ya-ba-and-half-a-ton-of-ganja-in-two-latest-busts/

 

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Thailand’s education ministry to inoculate 4.5 million students with Pfizer vaccine starting in October

 

 

Education minister Treenuch Thienthong has revealed a plan to start inoculation of students in all 29 of Thailand’s COVID-19 “dark red” provinces in October, so that the second semester of the academic year can commence without online learning.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231489-thailand’s-education-ministry-to-inoculate-45-million-students-with-pfizer-vaccine-starting-in-october/

 

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Visitors to Hua Hin safari from Sep 4-11 asked to quarantine as staff found with COVID-19

 

 

The health office of Thailand’s southern province of Prachuap Khiri Khan has issued an announcement advising anyone who visited Hua Hin Safari & Adventure Park between September 4th and 11th to enter 14 days of isolation immediately after 28 employees at the park were found to be infected with COVID-19. Seven others have also contracted the virus in the same cluster.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231492-visitors-to-hua-hin-safari-from-sep-4-11-asked-to-quarantine-as-staff-found-with-covid-19/

 

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Investigation into claims prison staff accepted 2 million baht bribe

 

Picture: Daily News

 

A latest case of corruption among Thai authorities has come to light though the director of the corrections' department said it is an old case that has already been the subject of an ongoing investigation.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231493-investigation-into-claims-prison-staff-accepted-2-million-baht-bribe/

 

 

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Thai man murders ex and her new lover in Trang

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Rassada police in Trang in southern Thailand are looking for a woman's former husband after a stabbing incident.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231494-thai-man-murders-ex-and-her-new-lover-in-trang/

 

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Several incentives approved to attract long-staying foreign investors, wealthy foreigners

 

 

Today (Tuesday) Thailand’s cabinet approved, in principle, a measure to attract “high potential” foreigners, including wealthy retirees and specialists, to stay long term in the country in a bid to promote foreign investment and to improve the struggling economy.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231516-several-incentives-approved-to-attract-long-staying-foreign-investors-wealthy-foreigners/

 

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87 people, including government chief whip, indicted over futsal court scandal

 

The government’s chief whip and Palang Pracharat MP, Wirat Rattanaseth / photo from parliament.go.th

 

The Thai government’s chief whip and Palang Pracharat MP, Wirat Rattanaseth, and 86 other people, including school directors, local politicians and teachers, were indicted today by public prosecutors before the Supreme Court’s Criminal Division for Political Office Holders over alleged corruption in the construction of futsal courts at hundreds of schools in 17 northern and north-eastern provinces.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231520-87-people-including-government-chief-whip-indicted-over-futsal-court-scandal/

 

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Cabinet grants ฿946m to Thai Red Cross to buy one million doses of Moderna vaccine

 

 

The cabinet agreed to allocate about 946.3 million baht from the Central Fund today (Tuesday), for the Thai Red Cross Society to purchase one million doses of the Moderna mRNA vaccine, for the free inoculation of certain target groups.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1231521-cabinet-grants-฿946m-to-thai-red-cross-to-buy-one-million-doses-of-moderna-vaccine/