Eateries in Bangkok can serve alcohol until 11pm from December 1

 

 

Bangkok Governor Aswin Kwanmuang issued an announcement today (Monday), further easing restrictions on eateries in the capital, by allowing them to serve alcohol to customers up to 11pm from December 1st.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241283-eateries-in-bangkok-can-serve-alcohol-until-11pm-from-december-1/

Thai PM orders officials to monitor all developments related to Omicron variant

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - Thailand’s Prime Minister has ordered related agencies to be on high alert for the detection of any COVID-19 cases related to the new Omicron variant of concern.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241288-thai-pm-orders-officials-to-monitor-all-developments-related-to-omicron-variant/

Vaccine still very much pivotal despite Omicron threats: Dr. Yong

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - A Thai virology expert says vaccination is still essential in the fight against the Covid pandemic, adding that the new Omicron variant seems to be causing less severe symptoms among both vaccinated and unvaccinated populations.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241289-vaccine-still-very-much-pivotal-despite-omicron-threats-dr-yong/

Health ministry confirms RT-PCR test can detect Omicron variant

 

 

BANGKOK (NNT) - People have expressed concerns about whether the RT-PCR test method for the virus that causes COVID-19 is able to detect the recently-surfaced Omicron variant of the virus. Public health authorities have now confirmed that the RT-PCR method is capable of detecting the new variant and the method is still in use globally.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241295-health-ministry-confirms-rt-pcr-test-can-detect-omicron-variant/

 

Pattaya City Mayor pushing to allow alcohol sales in restaurants and to reopen entertainment venues as a test zone in Pattaya after Fireworks Festival was a success

By Goong Nang(GN)

 

 

Pattaya – The Pattaya City Mayor, Sontaya Kunplome, said that he is pushing provincial and national government officials to allow alcohol sales in restaurants and for entertainment venues to legally reopen as a test area in Pattaya after the Pattaya Fireworks Festival has, according to him, succeeded with lots of tourists and few major problems.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241309-pattaya-city-mayor-pushing-to-allow-alcohol-sales-in-restaurants-and-to-reopen-entertainment-venues-as-a-test-zone-in-pattaya-after-fireworks-festival-was-a-success/

 

Massive blaze at engine oil warehouse in Nakhon Pathom now under control

 

 

Fire crews have managed to control a huge fire at an engine oil warehouse in Samphran district of Thailand’s central province of Nakhon Pathom, after battling the blaze with chemicals for more than two hours.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241311-massive-blaze-at-engine-oil-warehouse-in-nakhon-pathom-now-under-control/

 

Thailand reports 4,306 new COVID-19 cases, 37 deaths, 6,407 recoveries

 

File photo: REUTERS

 

Thailand on Tuesday (November 30) reported 4,306 new COVID-19 cases, 6,407 recoveries and 37 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241320-thailand-reports 4306 new-covid-19-cases-37 deaths 6407-recoveries/

 

Tourism minister questions Thailand’s 2pm-5pm alcohol ban

 

Pipat Ratchakitprakan. File photo

 

Thailand's tourism minister Pipat Ratchakitprakan admitted to Thai media yesterday that he hadn't any idea why the country bans drinking from 2 pm to 5 pm in the afternoon. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241322-tourism-minister-questions-thailand’s-2pm-5pm-alcohol-ban/

 

TAT latest figures: Half a million tourists will visit Thailand this year - 2/3 day wait on "Omicron Effect"

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

The head of Thailand's tourism authority said that when the final numbers are tallied half a million foreign tourists will have visited the country this year.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241326-tat-latest-figures-half-a-million-tourists-will-visit-thailand-this-year-23-day-wait-on-omicron-effect/

 

Thai stepdad and mum charged with torturing 6 year old boy

 

Picture: Daily News

 

A horrific tale of child abuse in Bangkok came to light after a post on the "Esor Khayee Khao" site featured a battered six year old boy who was near death and had been abused for months. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241328-thai-stepdad-and-mum-charged-with-torturing-6-year-old-boy/

 

Phuket marks 93 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 93 new local infections confirmed across the island yesterday (Nov 29) bringing the total number of people recognised as infected with COVID-19 in Phuket since Apr 3 to 17,709.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241336-phuket-marks-93-new-covid-cases-no-new-deaths/

 

Video: Dancing girls say unusual farewell to beloved friend - in front of the crematorium!

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Thai funerals are not necessarily sad affairs and this was proved in the north east of Thailand yesterday. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241337-video-dancing-girls-say-unusual-farewell-to-beloved-friend-in-front-of-the-crematorium/

 

Ferrari Joe latest: RTP chief says alleged torturer and murderer will lose his job

 

Thai caption: Expulsion!

 

Ferrari Joe - the super rich cop with super cars who allegedly tortured and murdered a drug suspect in custody - will lose his job.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241341-ferrari-joe-latest-rtp-chief-says-alleged-torturer-and-murderer-will-lose-his-job/

 

What Thailand can learn about telecom mergers from developed countries

 

 

A hot debate has been raging in Thailand since the recent announcement of the plan to merge True Corporation, a subsidiary of conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Group, and Total Access Communication (Dtac), a subsidiary of Norway’s Telenor.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241345-what-thailand-can-learn-about-telecom-mergers-from-developed-countries/

 

Gunman shoots "farmer" multiple times after stopping pick-up in Kanchanaburi

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Lt-Col Sukhon Rat-iam of the Muang Kanchanaburi police was alerted after a fatal shooting in the parking lot of a business area called Wang Saraphee Plaza in Pak Phraek sub-district of Kanchanaburi, western Thailand, at 7.45 am yesterday.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241347-gunman-shoots-farmer-multiple-times-after-stopping-pick-up-in-kanchanaburi/

 

Compensation for nightlife businesses and employees to be proposed to CCSA

 

Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP

 

Thailand’s Ministry of Labour is set to propose to the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) the compensation for nightlife business owners and their employees, after the reopening of nightclubs and entertainment venues was postponed until mid-January.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241349-compensation-for-nightlife-businesses-and-employees-to-be-proposed-to-ccsa/

 

Health Ministry Prepares Serious Defense against Omicron

 

 

BANGKOK, Nov 30 (TNA) – Deputy Public Health Minister Sathit Pitutecha said the Public Health Ministry seriously prepared itself to cope with the newly found Omicron variant of COVID-19 and visitors would continue to be tested for the disease with the RT-PCR technique. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241351-health-ministry-prepares-serious-defense-against-omicron/

 

Students in Hua Hin return for on site learning

By Paul Andrews

 

 

More schools in Hua Hin welcomed students for on site learning on Monday (Nov 29).

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241355-students-in-hua-hin-return-for-on-site-learning/

 

Road to nowhere in Thailand’s Yasothon is an embankment resembling a road

 

 

The mysterious asphalted road running to nowhere through a rice field in Maha Chaichana district of the north-eastern province of Yasothon, which has been the subject of an investigation by the local office of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) and which locals suspect may be linked to graft, is apparently just an embankment, not a road.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241356-road-to-nowhere-in-thailand’s-yasothon-is-an-embankment-resembling-a-road/

 

Improving COVID situation and opportunities to work sees illegal migrants entering Thailand

 

Picture INN

 

Thailand's prime minister Prayuth Chan-ocha and the country's head of police Gen Suwat Chaengyodsuk both gave their views on Thailand's porous borders at a meeting of the regulatory authority of the RTP headed by the PM. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241357-improving-covid-situation-and-opportunities-to-work-sees-illegal-migrants-entering-thailand/

 

Health official declares food center at Suvarnabhumi Covid free

 

Picture: INN

 

Deputy at the health department Attaphol Kaewsamrit paid an inspection visit to the food center at Bangkok's main airport, Suvarnabhumi yesterday.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241359-health-official-declares-food-center-at-suvarnabhumi-covid-free/

 

Calling all unvaxed in Chiang Mai: You can walk-in and choose what vaccines to get, but hurry!

 

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Chiang Mai News reported Sunday that a final drive to get 100 million vaccinated in the country would see walk-ins allowed in the northern Thai province.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241361-calling-all-unvaxed-in-chiang-mai-you-can-walk-in-and-choose-what-vaccines-to-get-but-hurry/

 

Singapore authorities attempt to attract Thai tourists with "VTL" system - Vaccinated Travel Lane

 

Picture: Bangkok Business News

 

Thai media Bangkok Business News reported that the Singapore authorities were making life easier for Thai tourists now they are included in the VTL scheme - the Vaccinated Travel Lane.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241363-singapore-authorities-attempt-to-attract-thai-tourists-with-vtl-system-vaccinated-travel-lane/

 

Special Technique Adopted to Detect Omicron

 

 

BANGKOK, Nov 30 (TNA) – The Department of Medical Sciences will develop special solution to detect the Omicron variant of COVID-19.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241371-special-technique-adopted-to-detect-omicron/

 

RT-PCR test requirement on arrival in Thailand to remain in place

 

 

The RT-PCR COVID-19 test requirement upon arrival in Thailand will remain in place in light of the emergence of the new “Omicron” COVID-19 variant in many countries, the Thai cabinet announced today (Tuesday). This decision negates the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration’s announcement, issued last week, saying that antigen tests will be used from December 16th.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241389-rt-pcr-test-requirement-on-arrival-in-thailand-to-remain-in-place/

 

Thai virologists think mixed vaccine use may give some protection against Omicron

 

 

A leading Thai virologist, Dr. Yong Poovorawan, and Professor Dr. Wasun Chantratita, head of the Centre for Medical Genomics at Ramathibodi hospital, believe that a mix-and-match vaccine regimen may offer protection against the new coronavirus variant Omicron.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241390-thai-virologists-think-mixed-vaccine-use-may-give-some-protection-against-omicron/

 

More illegal migrants arrested crossing border into Prachuap Khiri Khan

 

 

More illegal migrants from neighbouring Myanmar have been arrested after crossing the border in Prachuap Khiri Khan.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241392-more-illegal-migrants-arrested-crossing-border-into-prachuap-khiri-khan/

 

Restaurants in Cha Am allowed to serve alcohol

 

Cha Am beach, file photo

 

Restaurants in Cha Am have been given permission to serve alcohol to customers, the Phetchaburi Communicable Disease Committee has confirmed.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241393-restaurants-in-cha-am-allowed-to-serve-alcohol/

 

Lots of fish at Nai Harn

 

Photo: Aroon Soros

 

PHUKET: Local fishermen at Nai Harn were gifted a bumper haul yesterday (Nov 29) when hundreds of small fish locally called “Pla Thong Mae Mai” were caught in their nets set up in the shallows just off the beach.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241394-lots-of-fish-at-nai-harn/

 

TUI resumes Phuket flights from Copenhagen

 

Photo: AoT Phuket

 

PHUKET: TUI Fly Airlines, operating under the umbrella group of major international travel operator TUI, resumed its direct flights from Copenhagen, Denmark, to Phuket yesterday (Nov 29), bringing 345 foreigner travellers to the island.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1241395-tui-resumes-phuket-flights-from-copenhagen/