Influx of illegal immigrants to Thailand prompts COVID concerns

 

This handout photo from the Royal Thai Army taken in late April 2021 and released on May 3, 2021 shows military personnel detaining illegal immigrants in an undisclosed location near the border areas between Thailand and neighbouring countries

 

Thai authorities have been asked to increase field checks on factories and businesses, to make sure that they hire properly registered and fully vaccinated migrant workers from neighbouring countries, to prevent a new outbreak of COVID-19, similar to that in Samut Sakhon last December.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238603-influx-of-illegal-immigrants-to-thailand-prompts-covid-concerns/

Live your lives normally, but carefully, says Vachira director

 

The Lard Yai Sunday Walking Street Market in Phuket Town is back in full swing. Photo: PR Phuket

 

PHUKET: The Director of Vachira Phuket Hospital, Dr Weerasak Lorthongkham has come forward to urge people to go ahead and live their normal lives, but remain vigilant against the spread of COVID-19.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238601-live-your-lives-normally-but-carefully-says-vachira-director/

Govt Satisfied with First Week of Country Reopening

 

 

BANGKOK, Nov 8 (TNA) – The country reopening was satisfactory in its first week as Thailand received more than 20,000 visitors, only 15 of whom were infected with COVID-19, according to the government spokesman.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238605-govt-satisfied-with-first-week-of-country-reopening/v

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Foreign ministry fixing Thailand Pass system’s issue of slow QR code

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is making adjustments to the Thailand Pass system after tourists have had to wait long periods to receive their QR codes. The ministry is now allowing the use of PDF files to facilitate tourists’ selection of their initial hotel which is linked to an accommodating hospital.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238480-thai-pm-urges-relevant-government-agencies-to-fix-“thailand-pass”-system-after-many-did-not-receive-qr-code/?do=findComment&comment=16962646

Confidence index for Deep South improves

By Namo Vananupong

 

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - Progress has been made over the past two years in developing the Southern Border Provinces and addressing the unrest situation there, resulting in the local confidence index improving to higher than 50.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238626-confidence-index-for-deep-south-improves/

 

APEC Ministers’ Meeting seeks to restore Covid-hit economies

By Namo Vananupong

 

   

BANGKOK (NNT) - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Don Pramudwinai has attended the APEC Ministers’ Meeting to review the bloc’s progress in the past year and present his policy views for the next.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238628-apec-ministers’-meeting-seeks-to-restore-covid-hit-economies/

 

Domestic tourism to recover next year, international tourism on the way

By Panithan Onthaworn

 

 

Domestic tourism in Thailand is expected to recover significantly in 2022, if there are no more major Covid-19 outbreaks, a research house said Monday.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238630-domestic-tourism-to-recover-next-year-international-tourism-on-the-way/

 

Thai Airways to continue to be national flag carrier despite financial woes

By Erich Parpart

 

 

Thai Airways International (THAI) will continue to be the country’s flag carrier, Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-ocha said on Monday, despite the company’s ongoing financial woes.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238632-thai-airways-to-continue-to-be-national-flag-carrier-despite-financial-woes/

 

Congratulations Chulalongkorn University for destroying South East Asia’s last great movie theater

By Philip Jablon

 

 

It’s time to congratulate Chulalongkorn University for fulfilling their plans to replace the locally loved, internationally renowned and structurally sound Scala Theatre with a shopping mall. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238639-congratulations-chulalongkorn-university-for-destroying-south-east-asia’s-last-great-movie-theater/

 

Opinion: Scala could have been the heart of Thai cinema for decades

By Thai Enquirer

 

 

As someone who has grown up around and spent a career making movies, I understand how good cinema can be a catharsis for important conversation, introspection, or snapshot of the current zeitgeist.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238641-opinion-scala-could-have-been-the-heart-of-thai-cinema-for-decades/

 

Thailand reports 6,904 new COVID-19 cases, 61 deaths and 8,024 recoveries

 

File photo: REUTERS

 

Thailand on Tuesday (November 9) reported 6,904 new COVID-19 cases, 8,024 recoveries and 61 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238649-thailand-reports-6904-new-covid-19 cases-61-deaths-and-8024-recoveries/

Rooster’s daughter update: Happy news but let’s all enhance Thailand’s  safety with positive engagement

 

ASEAN NOW’s Sunday columnist - a long time British resident of Thailand - highlights the issue of swimming pool and other safety matters in the kingdom.

 

Firstly, my heartfelt thanks to the large number of posters who offered their support to me and my family in the wake of the serious incident at my condo pool last week that I wrote about in "The Week That Was" column. Your concern was touching and many comments showed how this had affected members in a very personal way. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238660-rooster’s-daughter-update-happy-news-but-let’s-all-enhance-thailand’s -safety-with-positive-engagement/

 

Car found in Chao Phraya River in Nakhon Sawan, to be recovered today

 

 

On Monday night, rescue workers located the sports utility vehicle of a man from Suphan Buri who drove into the Chao Phraya by accident and drowned last Friday night, in Muang district of Nakhon Sawan.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238665-car-found-in-chao-phraya-river-in-nakhon-sawan-to-be-recovered-today/

 

 

Phuket marks 39 new COVID cases

By The Phuket News

 

Image: PPHO

 

PHUKET: The latest Phuket Provincial Public Health Office (PPHO) daily COVID situation report has marked 39 new local infections confirmed across the island yesterday (Nov 8th) bringing the total number of people recognised as infected with COVID-19 in Phuket since Apr 3 to 15,957.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238667-phuket-marks-39-new-covid-cases/

 

Nov 8: Prachuap reports 123 new COVID-19 cases, 26 cases in Hua Hin

By Paul Andrews

 

 

Health officials on Monday (Nov-8th) reported 123 new COVID-19 cases, 26 were found in Hua Hin.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238672-nov-8-prachuap-reports-123-new-covid-19-cases-26-cases-in-hua-hin/

 

Here’s why fish have been washing up on Hua Hin beach

By Paul Andrews

 

 

Hua Hin beach was a hive of activity on Sunday as people flocked to catch fish that were much closer to the shore than normal.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238674-here’s-why-fish-have-been-washing-up-on-hua-hin-beach/

 

Thai authorities warn of 2 very high tides Tuesday

 

 

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is warning that the high tides today (Tuesday) will reach peaks at 11.26am, at 1.31 meters above mean sea level, and 1.20 meters at 7.32pm.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238681-thai-authorities-warn-of-2-very-high-tides-tuesday/

 

UK now recognises Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines

 

File photo: REUTERS

 

Good news for people in Thailand wishing to travel to the UK.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238684-uk-now-recognises-sinovac-and-sinopharm-vaccines/

 

Foreign Secretary arrives in Thailand for talks on deepening economic and security ties

From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP

 

 

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has arrived in Bangkok today (9th November) to forge closer bilateral ties with Thailand and to deepen the UK’s wider role in Southeast Asia.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238685-foreign-secretary-arrives-in-thailand-for-talks-on-deepening-economic-and-security-ties/

 

Bangkok Tries to Prevent Flooding

 

 

BANGKOK, Nov 9 (TNA) – The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration reinforced its embankments and installed pumps along the Chao Phraya River to protect riverside communities from high tide overflow.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238690-bangkok-tries-to-prevent-flooding/

 

 

Flooded Bangkok communities may be inundated until November 13

By Cod Satrusayang

 

 

Flooded Bangkok communities may be inundated by overflow from the Chao Phraya until November 13, the Royal Thai Navy said on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238691-flooded-bangkok-communities-may-be-inundated-until-november-13/

 

Chonburi announces 195 new and confirmed cases of Covid-19 and no new deaths

By Goong Nang(GN)

 

PHOTO: BMA Health

 

Highlights:

195 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Chonburi today

332 people recovered and were released from medical care

No new deaths

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238694-chonburi-announces-195-new-and-confirmed-cases-of-covid-19-and-no-new-deaths/

 

Thailand steps up efforts to attract more expats

 

File photo for reference only

 

Thailand is setting up its efforts to attract more foreigners to settle in the country long term.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238696-thailand-steps-up-efforts-to-attract-more-expats/
 

Paxlovid and Molnupiravir COVID-19 treatments planned to be purchased

 

 

Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health is to seek cabinet approval this week for the procurement of two anti-viral drugs, Pfizer’s Paxlovid and Merck’s Molnupiravir, for the treatment of people in early infection with COVID-19.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238699-paxlovid-and-molnupiravir-covid-19-treatments-planned-to-be-purchased/

 

J&J vaccine administered in Sa Kaeo may have been smuggled from Cambodia

 

 

The Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which is claimed to have been administered to a man by a private clinic in Thailand’s eastern province of Sa Kaeo, is suspected to have been smuggled from Cambodia, said Dr. Praphas Pookduang, the provincial health chief of Sa Kaeo province, today (Tuesday).

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238700-jj-vaccine-administered-in-sa-kaeo-may-have-been-smuggled-from-cambodia/

 

Trouble at the coffee shop

By Eakkapop Thongtub

 

The Thai woman needed restraining from attacking the foreign couple, who had forcible taken her phone and bag from her. Image: Supplied

 

PHUKET: Police have yet to reveal the sequence of events that led to an Englishman physically restraining a Thai woman at a popular coffee shop in Cherng Talay yesterday (Nov 8th) to prevent her from continuing her attack on a foreign couple who had arrived and forcibly taken her mobile phone and bag from her.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238701-trouble-at-the-coffee-shop/

 

Thai FDA joins hands with online platforms to curb sale of substandard ATKs

 

 

The Thai Food and Drug Administration (TFDA) is cooperating with Lazada, Shopee and HDmall.com.th to protect shoppers from being duped into buying substandard antigen test kits (ATKs) from unscrupulous traders.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238705-thai-fda-joins-hands-with-online-platforms-to-curb-sale-of-substandard-atks/

 

Financial Aid Starts for Rice Growers

 

 

BANGKOK, Nov 9 (TNA) – The Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives started to transfer financial aid to the rice growers who participated in the farmers’ income insurance program of the government for the 2021/2022 crop season today.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238726-financial-aid-starts-for-rice-growers/

Prachuap border officials repatriate 103 illegal migrants back to Myanmar

 

 

103 Burmese nationals who entered Thailand illegally in Prachuap Khiri Khan have been repatriated back to Myanmar.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238727-prachuap-border-officials-repatriate-103-illegal-migrants-back-to-myanmar/

 

Number of vaccine doses administered in Thailand exceeds 80 million

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Thailand is on its ninth day of having officially opened up to international tourists. More than 80 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered, placing Thailand at the 18th spot among countries and territories with the highest number of doses administered.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1238749-number-of-vaccine-doses-administered-in-thailand-exceeds-80-million/