Thailand’s first COVID Delta Plus case not same as UK, 18 others found with Alpha Plus

 

Photo by Handout / US Food and Drug Administration / AFP

 

The first COVID-19 Delta Plus case found in Thailand is the AY.1 variant, which is different from the AY.4.2 strain currently spreading in the United Kingdom. The Thai AY.1 patient has fully recovered, said Director-General of the Medical Sciences Department Dr. Supakit Sirilak, at a news conference today (Tuesday).

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236879-thailand’s-first-covid-delta-plus-case-not-same-as-uk-18-others-found-with-alpha-plus/

Hotel owners and associations positive over busy weekend business in Pattaya, boosted by domestic tourism

 

 

The most recent four-day long weekend has boosted Pattaya domestic tourism with many rooms and restaurants heavily booked, according to local business leaders.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236923-hotel-owners-and-associations-positive-over-busy-weekend-business-in-pattaya-boosted-by-domestic-tourism/

Thailand aims to draw neighbours for one-day trips

 

 

Thailand’s Ministry of Health is working with the Ministry of Tourism and Sports to prepare guidelines to allow visitors from Thailand’s neighbouring countries, such as Laos, Myanmar and Malaysia, to take one-day trips to Thailand as the country prepares to reopen to tourism on November 1st.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236877-thailand-aims-to-draw-neighbours-for-one-day-trips/

 

CCSA asked to ease restrictions on stalls at exhibitions, festive events, malls

 

 

Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health will ask the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) to ease restrictions on movable retail stores, so they can open in exhibition halls, at festive events, in shopping malls and at amusement parks.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236937-ccsa-asked-to-ease-restrictions-on-stalls-at-exhibitions-festive-events-malls/

 

Over 1,000 prisoners in Nakhon Si Thammarat catch COVID-19 from unknown source

 

 

More than 1,000 prisoners in the Zone 6 maximum security sector of the prison in Thailand’s southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat have been infected with COVID-19, 396 of whom have developed symptoms.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236938-over-1000-prisoners-in-nakhon-si-thammarat-catch-covid-19-from-unknown-source/

 

Beauty queen: Your biggest mission might be the simplest one

 

(Photo courtesy of Miss Thailnad Universe Facebook page)

 

To Anchilee Scott-Kemmis, nobody can go out and change the world alone, but a small first step in the right direction is to love your pure, original self.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236939-beauty-queen-your-biggest mission-might-be-the-simplest-one/

 

Prime Minister calls on ASEAN to open up to travelers

By Namo Vananupong

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The 38th and 39th ASEAN Summits commenced today (26 Oct) via teleconference, with Thailand’s prime minister calling for ASEAN to open up more to travelers and collaboratively deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236858-thai-pm-urges-asean-to-develop-coordinated-voices-innovative-approaches-to-us-and-china/

 

BMA Mulls Latest Plan to Cope with Fine Dust

 

 

BANGKOK, Oct 26 (TNA) – The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration worked out its newest plan to cope with the problem of particulate matter 2.5 microns and less in diameter (PM2.5) that is expected to escalate late this month.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236941-bma-mulls-latest-plan-to-cope-with-fine-dust/

 

Foreign Ministry denies holding up Polish Moderna donation

By Natcha Patanasophon

 

 

Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied reports on Tuesday that it had banned a donation of Moderna vaccine from Poland to Thammasat University.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236942-foreign-ministry-denies-holding-up-polish-moderna-donation/

 

Oct 26: Prachuap reports 128 new COVID-19 cases, 45 cases in Hua Hin

By Paul Andrews

 

 

Health officials on Tuesday (Oct 26) reported 128 new COVID-19 cases, 45 were found in Hua Hin.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236943-oct-26-prachuap-reports-128-new-covid-19-cases-45-cases-in-hua-hin/

 

Thailand starts CPTPP application process driven by fears for inward investment and the economy

by Joseph O' Connor

 

Thailand’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Don Pramudwinai last week chaired a committee meeting which decided to move forward with steps to brief the cabinet and prepare the ground for what could be an application by Thailand to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) which was launched in March 2018 in Chile’s capital of Santiago.

 

Vietnam is emerging as Thailand’s key competitor for investment and trade opportunities. The fellow ASEAN member is already in the CPTPP pact which China applied to join in September and has a free trade pact with both the European Union and the United Kingdom which applied to join the Pacific pact in June.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236944-thailand-starts-cptpp-application-process-driven-by-fears-for-inward-investment-and-the-economy/

 

Thailand’s IKEA Bang Yai transforms into a circular shop 

by Gregers Møller 

 

 

As part of the Swedish furniture giant IKEA’s global effort to become a more sustainable business, IKEA Bang Yai in Thailand has been turned into a circular store.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236945-thailand’s-ikea-bang-yai-transforms-into-a-circular-shop/

 

 

Businesses in Thailand urge government to reverse alcohol ban

Borders to open after 18 months of Covid restrictions that did ‘catastrophic damage’ to tourism sector

 

Rebecca Ratcliffe South-east Asia correspondent

 

A member of the Craft Beer Association holds a placard reading ‘Cocktail is not a crime’. Photograph: Watcharawit Phudork/Sopa Images/Rex/Shutterstock

 

Businesses in Thailand have urged the government to lift restrictions on alcohol sales as the country reopens to tourists, warning the measures are destroying its famous nightlife and risk deterring visitors.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236946-businesses-in-thailand-urge-government-to-reverse-alcohol-ban/

 

COVID-19: Thailand reports 8,452 new coronavirus cases, 57 deaths

 

File photo; REUTERS

 

Thailand on Wednesday (October 27) reported 8,452 new COVID-19 cases, 8,449 recoveries and 57 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236959-covid-19-thailand-reports-8452-new-coronavirus-cases-57-deaths/

 

Thai Commerce Minister to chair probe into reports of used medical gloves being exported to US

 

 

A fact-finding committee, chaired by Thailand’s Commerce Minister Jurin Laksanawisit, will meet at Government House this afternoon (Wednesday) to begin an investigation into claims, made in a recent CNN report, that tens of millions of used medical gloves have been exported to the United States from Thailand.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236965-thai-commerce-minister-to-chair-probe-into-reports-of-used-medical-gloves-being-exported-to-us/

 

Phuket marks 80 new COVID cases, no new deaths

By The Phuket News

 

Image: PPHO

 

PHUKET: The latest Phuket Provincial Public Health Office (PPHO) daily COVID situation report has marked 80 new local infections confirmed across the island yesterday (Oct 26) bringing the total number of people recognised as infected with COVID-19 in Phuket since Apr 3 to 14,940.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236971-phuket-marks-80-new-covid-cases-no-new-deaths/

 

No hazardous chemical residue found from blaze at foam factory in Pathum Thani

 

 

No dangerous chemical residue has been found and the air quality in Pathum Thani province remains normal, according to the Pollution Control Department, following a fire that broke out on Tuesday at a foam factory in Navanakorn Industrial Estate. Damage is estimated at about Bt100 million.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236979-no-hazardous-chemical-residue-found-from-blaze-at-foam-factory-in-pathum-thani/

 

Chonburi announces 297 new and confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 5 new deaths

By Goong Nang(GN)

 

 

Highlights:

297 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Chonburi today

443 people recovered and were released from medical care

5 new deaths

 

Full story: https://thepattayanews.com/2021/10/27/chonburi-announces-297-new-and-confirmed-cases-of-covid-19-and-5-new-deaths/

Economist sees Thailand’s economy recovering next year

By Namo Vananupong

 

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - Owing to improving economic signals, Standard Chartered Thailand now expects the Thai economy to expand by 3% in 2022.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236985-economist-sees-thailand’s-economy-recovering-next-year/

 

People at Bangkok’s Erawan Shrine in favor of country reopening

By Namo Vananupong

 

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - People in Bangkok’s Ratchaprasong area have expressed their belief that Thailand’s November 1 reopening to international travelers will benefit the economy, although they were concerned about potential COVID-19 infections.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236986-people-at-bangkok’s-erawan-shrine-in-favor-of-country-reopening/

 

Pattaya Music Festival to be held from November in time for Thailand’s reopening

 

 

This year’s Pattaya Music Festival is being organised to coincide with Thailand’s reopening to foreign tourists on November 1st, with the first events on November 5th and 6th.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236988-pattaya-music-festival-to-be-held-from-november-in-time-for-thailand’s-reopening/

 

Gen Nattaphon Narkphanit: The military man leading Thailand’s biggest battle against COVID 

 

 

The recent appointment of Gen Nattaphon Narkphanit to lead the fight against Thailand’s new epicenter of COVID-19, the restive deep South, has sparked controversy on all sides.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236990-gen-nattaphon-narkphanit-the-military-man-leading-thailand’s-biggest-battle-against-covid/

 

OIC holds first online insurance tech fair

By Tanakorn Sangiam

 

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - With customers’ interest in insurance products booming amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Office of Insurance Commission has launched Thailand’s first online fair featuring insurance technologies and new products, while providing a platform for businesses to meet and discuss.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236991-oic-holds-first-online-insurance-tech-fair/

 

PM Attends US-ASEAN Summit

 

 

BANGKOK (TNA) – Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha attended the US-ASEAN Summit where United States President Joe Biden promised to maintain help for ASEAN.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236993-pm-attends-us-asean-summit/

 

Thai military feels the heat over plan for solar farm

 

● Blessed with sunshine, Thailand’s embrace of solar energy seems a no-brainer. But the entrance of the country’s powerful military into the sector may be doing the cause more harm than good

 

● Critics fear that once the army gets a slice of the pie, it could use its stake to gain political influence – an idea that does not sit well in a land rocked by pro-democracy protests

 

Jitsiree Thongnoi

 

Thai Buddhist monks at a solar power plant about 60km from Bangkok, Thailand. Photo: EPA

 

With up to 2,700 hours of sunshine a year, the “land of smiles” Thailand has much to be happy about.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236994-thai-military-feels-the-heat-over-plan-for-solar-farm/

 

Power outage to affect Srisoonthorn village

By The Phuket News

 

The notice announcing the power outage. Image: PEA

 

PHUKET: The Thalang branch of the Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) has announced a scheduled electricity outage in Moo 1, Srisoonthorn, just east of Baan Don village in Thalang, tomorrow (Oct 28) so workers can repair and upgrade high-voltage power cables in the area.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236995-power-outage-to-affect-srisoonthorn-village/

 

Traffickers Arrested with Huge Marijuana Lot

 

 

NAKHON RATCHASIMA, Oct 27 (TNA) – Police arrested four men with 1,824 kilograms of compressed marijuana on their vehicles running from the border to Bangkok.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1236999-traffickers-arrested-with-huge-marijuana-lot/

 

Opinion: Child abuse scandal highlights the necessary debate needed in Thai society

By Natcha Patanasophon

 

 

A famous Thai musician is under fire for images posted on social media which show him inappropriately touching his daughter.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1237001-opinion-child-abuse-scandal-highlights-the-necessary-debate-needed-in-thai-society/

 

Thai music producer under fire for allegedly improper touching of his daughter

 

Photo from 1jakkawal Facebook

 

Recent Instagram posts by well-known music producer Neung Jakkawal Saothongyutitum, aka Neung Jakkawal, showing him kidding around with his young daughter and touching her inappropriately, has caused an uproar on social media, with many questioning the appropriateness of his actions.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1237002-thai-music-producer-under-fire-for-allegedly-improper-touching-of-his-daughter/

 

61 people arrested after police raid bar on Sukhumvit Soi 23

 

Image: INN

 

Thong Lor Police arrested 61 people after carrying out a raid at a bar on Sukhumvit Soi 23.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1237010-61-people-arrested-after-police-raid-bar-on-sukhumvit-soi-23/