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Pattaya police set up checkpoints for drunk driving to prevent road accidents during Loy Krathong festival

By Goong Nang(GN)

 

 

Pattaya – The Pattaya City Traffic Police set up a checkpoint for drunk driving last night in North Pattaya to prevent road accidents during the Loy Krathong festival and warned drivers that many more checkpoints were coming over the holiday weekend.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1240058-pattaya-police-set-up-checkpoints-for-drunk-driving-to-prevent-road-accidents-during-loy-krathong-festival/

 

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Employment scammers, romance scammer swindled millions from victims

 

Picture: Daily News

 

A Tourist Police press conference from the Suvarnabhumi fire station announced the resolution to two scamming cases.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1240059-employment-scammers-romance-scammer-swindled-millions-from-victims/

 

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Heroin and ecstasy smuggling gang arrested at housing estate near Bangkok

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Metropolitan police chief Pol Lt-gen Samran Nuanma announced the arrest of four drug smugglers who brought heroin and ecstasy from the north east to Pathum Thani north of the Thai capital Bangkok.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1240062-heroin-and-ecstasy-smuggling-gang-arrested-at-housing-estate-near-bangkok/

 

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Registered post will cease to exist in Thailand from the New Year

 

 

Daily News reported that an announcement in the Government Gazette yesterday by the Thai Post Office indicated that the registered post service would be discontinued from January 1st next year.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1240063-registered-post-will-cease-to-exist-in-thailand-from-the-new-year/

 

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Thai insurance regulator urged to rescind order forbidding cancellation of COVID insurance policies

 

 

The Thai General Insurance Association is urging the Office of Insurance Commission (OIC) to rescind its order forbidding insurance companies from cancelling the so-called “Found, Paid, Done” policies covering COVID-19 infection, claiming that it may force insurance companies in Thailand into bankruptcy.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1240096-thai-insurance-regulator-urged-to-rescind-order-forbidding-cancellation-of-covid-insurance-policies/

 

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Incentives being considered to entice remaining 11m Thais to get vaccinated

 

AP Photo/David Goldman, File

 

Senior Thai officials are mulling incentives to encourage about 11 million as yet unvaccinated Thais to get inoculated against COVID-19 this month.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1240097-incentives-being-considered-to-entice-remaining-11m-thais-to-get-vaccinated/

 

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Prime Minister Meets American Chamber of Commerce

 

 

BANGKOK, Nov 19 (TNA) – Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Thursday discussed Thai economic recovery after COVID-19 with the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM) which promised to support Thailand as the investment gateway of Southeast Asia.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1240098-prime-minister-meets-american-chamber-of-commerce/

 

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Pattaya area warns people who visited a fast food restaurant in relation to Chonburi confirmed Covid -19 cases

 

 

The Chonburi Public Health Office today (November 19th) has released a warning to inform people who went to a fast-food restaurant in Pattaya to monitor their health.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1240099-pattaya-area-warns-people-who-visited-a-fast-food-restaurant-in-relation-to-chonburi-confirmed-covid-19-cases/

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Prominent Pattaya business owners continue to call for Pattaya to get a “Phuket Style” exemption, ending Pattaya alcohol sales ban at restaurants

 

 

Prominent Pattaya business operators in the nightlife, entertainment, and bar sector have continued to call for support from local, regional, and national Thai government leaders after their businesses have been essentially frozen by the Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration, or CCSA, after previous announcements that the nightlife, bar, and entertainment sector would not be allowed to open until after the holiday season in 2022.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1240100-prominent-pattaya-business-owners-continue-to-call-for-pattaya-to-get-a-“phuket-style”-exemption-ending-pattaya-alcohol-sales-ban-at-restaurants/

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As Phuket reopens, officials on alert for illegal migrant workers

 

Officials are on alert for illegal migrant workers arriving in Phuket. Photo: The Phuket News / file

 

PHUKET: Phuket officials are asking employers with any migrant workers not vaccinated to bring them to any of the five government hospitals on the island to receive vaccination injections.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1240101-as-phuket-reopens-officials-on-alert-for-illegal-migrant-workers/

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New Normal Loy Krathong Festival Held in Sukhothai

 

 

SUKHOTHAI, Nov 19 (TNA) – Authorities in Sukhothai province organized their Loy Krathong festival in a new normal style while continuing to present the World Heritage status of its archaeological site.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1240122-new-normal-loy-krathong-festival-held-in-sukhothai/

 

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