Video: Motorcyclists narrowly escape trouble after elephant charge

 

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A video showed several park rangers alerting two men on a motorcycle to potential peril from a wild elephant.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1234018-video-motorcyclists-narrowly-escape-trouble-after-elephant-charge/

 

CoC presses for 400,000 illegal foreigners in Thailand to get vaccinated and solve labor shortage

 

file photo: REUTERS

 

Thai business media quoted the chief of the Thai Chamber of Commerce Sanan Angubonkul as assessing that there were 300,000 to 400,000 illegal foreign migrants in Thailand.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1234019-coc-presses-for-400000-illegal-foreigners-in-thailand-to-get-vaccinated-and-solve-labor-shortage/

 

Phuket night time businesses say Sandbox has been a huge failure

 

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People who run restaurants, pubs and bars in Phuket's night life areas say that for them the much vaunted Sandbox has been an utter failure.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1234021-phuket-night-time-businesses-say-sandbox-has-been-a-huge-failure/

 

Residents in 6 northeastern Thai provinces warned to prepare forevacuation as Chi river rises

 

 

Thailand’s National Water Directorate has issued an advisory,for riverside residents living in 28 districts in six north-eastern provinces, to move their valuables to higher ground and be ready for evacuation anytime between today (Monday) andOctober 15th due to possible flooding from the swollen Chi River.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1234023-residents-in-6-northeastern-thai-provinces-warned-to-prepare-for-evacuation-as-chi-river-rises/

 

Yikes! Family in Buriram spend the whole night sleeping with a snake

 

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Sanook reported that a mum and dad and their three children aged 4, 2 and five months spent the whole night in a large bed unaware they were sleeping with a snake. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1234024-yikes-family-in-buriram-spend-the-whole-night-sleeping-with-a-snake/

 

Thailand in talks with Merck for 200,000 courses of pill for COVID-19 treatment

 

FILE PHOTO: An experimental COVID-19 treatment pill called molnupiravir being developed by Merck & Co Inc and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics LP, is seen in this undated handout photo released by Merck & Co Inc and obtained by Reuters May 17, 2021. Merck & Co Inc/Handout via REUTERS

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand's government is in talks with U.S. drugmaker Merck & Co to purchase 200,000 courses of the company's experimental antiviral pill for COVID-19 treatment, a Thai official said on Monday.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1234036-thailand-in-talks-with-merck-for-200000-courses-of-pill-for-covid-19-treatment/

 

Thailand to cap diesel prices, sees 2021 GDP growth

 

FILE PHOTO: Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) officials remove a diesel electric generator at Nong Jok power plant in Bangkok, April 27, 2011, before preparing it to be shipped to Japan. REUTERS/Chaiwat Subprasom

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand will cap retail diesel prices at 30 baht ($0.89) per litre until the end of the month to help reduce living costs for consumers amid higher global oil prices and a prolonged coronavirus outbreak, its deputy prime minister said on Monday.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1234038-thailand-to-cap-diesel-prices-sees-2021-gdp-growth/

 

Train services to southern destinations beyond Yala temporarily suspended

 

 

Local train services from Hat Yai town to destinations beyond the southern border province of Yala have been suspended from today (Monday) until further notice after a train was shot at, allegedly by insurgents, as it was travelling between two stations in Rueso district of Narathiwat province yesterday evening.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1234039-train-services-to-southern-destinations-beyond-yala-temporarily-suspended/

 

Thai government advised to prepare for financial fallout from China’s ‘Evergrande’ crisis

 

A general view shows the Evergrande Center building in Shanghai on September 22, 2021. Hector RETAMAL / AFP

 

Thailand’s former finance minister and Kla Party Leader Korn Chatikavanij has strongly advised the Thai government to take precautionary steps to protect against any fallout from China’s Evergrande crisis.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1234040-thai-government-advised-to-prepare-for-financial-fallout-from-china’s-‘evergrande’-crisis/

 

Pandora Papers expose world leaders’ offshore entities, Thai tycoon families among listed

 

 

More than a dozen heads of state and government, from Jordan to Azerbaijan, Kenya and the Czech Republic, have used offshore tax havens to hide assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a far-reaching new investigation by the ICIJ media consortium.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1234042-pandora-papers-expose-world-leaders’-offshore-entities-thai-tycoon-families-among-listed/

 

Community forest isn’t just an ideal – Baan Lau Nuae proved it

 

 

It’s been a long fight of 30 years in which the former headman of Baan Lau Nuae – village, Boonyong Jitmanee encouraged people in his village and neighborhood villages to stand up against wood smugglers and could win back 1.076 acres of abundant forest.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1234060-community-forest-isn’t-just-an-ideal-–-baan-lau-nuae-proved-it/

 

Hospitals to Receive Partial Moderna Vaccine Delivery

 

 

BANGKOK, Oct 4 (TNA) – Hospitals will receive the partial delivery of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna in the fourth quarter of this year and they will equally have 40% of their order.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1234083-hospitals-to-receive-partial-moderna-vaccine-delivery/

 

Three Thai men arrested after one threw explosive at police

 

 

Three Thai men were arrested by police shortly after they threw a home-made explosive device at traffic police officer directing traffic at Ratchaprasong intersection in Bangkok this morning (Monday), according to Pol Maj-Gen Jirasant Kaewsang-ek, deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Bureau.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1234084-three-thai-men-arrested-after-one-threw-explosive-at-police/

 

COVID infections in 4 southern provinces rising, now 21% of new cases Monday

 

People receive masks distributed by Thai commander of the 4th Army Area Lieutenant General Kriangkrai Srirak (2R) in Rangae district, southern province of Narathiwat on September 25, 2021. (Photo by Madaree TOHLALA / AFP)

 

Thailand’s 5 southernmost provinces, of Nakhon Si Thammarat, Songkhla, Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat, are among those with the highest COVID-19 infection rate today (Monday).

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1234099-covid-infections-in-4-southern-provinces-rising-now-21-of-new-cases-monday/

Bodies of 4 suspected insurgents found in forest swamp in Narathiwat after six-day siege

 

 

The bodies of four people, thought to be insurgents, have been found shot to death in a forest peat swamp in the Bareh Tai sub-district of Bacho district in Thailand’s southernmost province of Narathiwat, after security forces combed the swamp last night following a six-day siege, which had been punctuated by occasional clashes.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1234102-bodies-of-4-suspected-insurgents-found-in-forest-swamp-in-narathiwat-after-six-day-siege/

 

Thailand kicks off vaccinations for school students

 

High school students between the ages of 12-17 wait at a school to get the Pfizer vaccine for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) ahead of schools reopening in November, in Bangkok, Thailand, October 4, 2021. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand rolled out COVID-19 vaccines to high school students for the first time on Monday, as it seeks to boost its immunisation rate ahead of a planned school reopening next month.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1233998-voluntary-inoculation-of-school-students-with-pfizer-vaccine-begins-in-thailand/?do=findComment&comment=16872438

 

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