THAILAND LIVE Thailand Live Tuesday 28 Sep 2021

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Thai Trade Authorities Urge Exporters to Prepare for Catch-all WMD Control Measure

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Thailand’s Department of Foreign Trade (DFT) has urged exporters to prepare for the implementation of the catch-all control (CAC) measure in the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction Act of 2019.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1233308-thai-trade-authorities-urge-exporters-to-prepare-for-catch-all-wmd-control-measure/

 

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Thai Commerce Ministry Sets up Hotline for Complaints about High Prices for Necessities

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Thai Commerce Ministry’s Department of Internal Trade (DIT) has set up a special 1569 nationwide hotline for people to file complaints if they are charged unusually high prices for necessities.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1233310-thai-commerce-ministry-sets-up-hotline-for-complaints-about-high-prices-for-necessities/

 

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Phuket people queue for food handouts as police make merit with COVID charity effort

 

Hundreds of people lined the street to receive a ’Survival Bag’. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: Hundreds lined the street on the south side of Phuket Town yesterday (Sept 27) as two high-ranking police officers made merit by handing out ‘Survival Bags’ of food and other household necessities to those suffering harsh financial hardship under the ongoing economic crisis.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1233345-phuket-people-queue-for-food-handouts-as-police-make-merit-with-covid-charity-effort/

 

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OP-ED: England’s unfriendly travel regulations

 

 

It seems unbelievable that England has put in place a discriminatory policy that refuses to accept COVID-19 jabs given in countries in Latin American, Africa and South and Southeast Asia. The government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson is showing its dark side by recognising only shots given in a select group of countries. 

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1233346-op-ed-england’s-unfriendly-travel-regulations/

 

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Introducing Thailand’s “Virtual Influencer”

 

 

Meet “Ailynn”, a 21-year-old virtual influencer, introduced by the Thai digital agency “SIA Bangkok”, hoping to penetrate Thailand’s digital advertising industry and enhance virtual-reality-related businesses.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1233347-introducing-thailand’s-“virtual-influencer”/

 

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Booster with Pfizer after 2 Sinovac jabs generates more antibodies, but immunity drops faster

 

 

Antibody levels, generated by two jabs of Sinovac vaccine and a booster shot of AstraZeneca, is relatively lower than two Sinovac jabs and a booster of Pfizer vaccine, but the immunity generated after the Sinovac-Pfizer regimen drops faster, according to research jointly conducted by Thailand’s National Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (Biotec) and Thammasat University.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1233349-booster-with-pfizer-after-2-sinovac-jabs-generates-more-antibodies-but-immunity-drops-faster/

 

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5 drown, 1 missing and over 55,000 households hit by floods in Thailand’s Lop Buri

 

 

Five people have drowned, another remains missing and more than 55,000 households in the central province of Lop Buri have been hit by heavy flooding, said by some villagers to be the worst in thirty years.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1233350-5-drown-1-missing-and-over-55000-households-hit-by-floods-in-thailand’s-lop-buri/

 

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Tradition prevails as Phuket prepares to host Vegetarian Festival

 

 

Believed to be the birthplace of the vegetarian festival in Thailand, Phuket has decided to hold its well-known and much-loved vegetarian or Je festival from October 5 to 15 this year despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As befits the situation, this time the celebration will be held in accordance with the “new normal manner.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1233352-tradition-prevails-as-phuket-prepares-to-host-vegetarian-festival/

 

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Thai volunteer takes to skies to drop supplies to flood victims

 

Powered paraglider delivers supplies to residents affected by flood in Sukhothai province, Thailand September 26, 2021 in this picture obtained from social media on September 28, 2021. The Charity Of Phitsanulok Association/via REUTERS

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A paramotoring enthusiast in northern Thailand has taken to the skies to help deliver urgently need supplies to people cut off by floods.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1233353-thai-volunteer-takes-to-skies-to-drop-supplies-to-flood-victims/

 

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