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Thailand announces new measures for foreign arrivals, New Year countdown details

 

A motorcyclist rides past a floral design marking the arrival of the Thai new year 2564 in Bangkok on December 31, 2020. Mladen ANTONOV / AFP

 

Thailand’s Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has announced a list of provinces where New Year countdown events will be allowed, has set limits on the number of attendees and introduced new measures for foreign arrivals in the light of COVID-19 Omicron variant.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1242926-thailand-announces-new-measures-for-foreign-arrivals-new-year-countdown-details/

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Eight Omicron cases confirmed in Thailand so far, three others await confirmation

 

People wearing face masks exit a BTS skytrain in Bangkok on December 6, 2021 as Thailand recorded on Monday its first case of the Covid-19 coronavirus Omicron variant. Jack TAYLOR / AFP

 

Eight COVID-19 Omicron variant cases have been detected in Thailand to date, with three more awaiting confirmatory tests, according to the Medical Sciences Department.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1242927-eight-omicron-cases-confirmed-in-thailand-so-far-three-others-await-confirmation/

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Hua Hin restaurants given permission to hold New Year’s Eve parties – with alcohol

 

 

If you were worried that COVID-19 restrictions may scupper your New Year’s Eve celebrations, Thailand’s COVID task force has announced some good news.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1242955-hua-hin-restaurants-given-permission-to-hold-new-year’s-eve-parties-–-with-alcohol/

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Decision on reopening of Thailand’s Maya Bay on January 1 still not final

 

 

Thailand’s Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation is awaiting a final decision, by Natural Resources and Environment Minister Varawut Silpa-archa, on whether to postpone the reopening of Maya Bay, in the southern coastal province of Krabi, from January 1st.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1242983-decision-on-reopening-of-thailand’s-maya-bay-on-january-1-still-not-final/

 

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Positive representations like Anchilee are desperately needed in the Thai media

 

 

Anchilee Scott-Kemmis became a huge source of hope for many Thais, by being declared Miss Universe Thailand 2021 back in October, and having a social impact by breaking existing beauty ideals, which women and young girls have felt pressured to meet for way too long.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1242985-positive-representations-like-anchilee-are-desperately-needed-in-the-thai-media/

 

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Thailand to speed up vaccine booster shots

 

 

The Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has decided to speed up the mass provision of COVID-19 vaccine booster shots, to guard against the potentially serious symptoms of the Omicron variant.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1242986-thailand-to-speed-up-vaccine-booster-shots/

 

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Three injured as local train struck by explosion in Pattani province

 

 

Two State Railway of Thailand workers and a passenger were injured when an improvised explosive device (IED), thought to have been planted by southern insurgents on the rail track, detonated as a local train was approaching Kok Pho district of Pattani province Monday.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1242987-three-injured-as-local-train-struck-by-explosion-in-pattani-province/

 

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Thai PM promises to review Chana project SEA, but says it cannot be scrapped

 

 

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said Monday that the Chana district industrial estate project, in the southern province of Songkhla, cannot legally be cancelled, but he promised a complete review of the Strategic Environmental assessment (SEA) process.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1242988-thai-pm-promises-to-review-chana-project-sea-but-says-it-cannot-be-scrapped/

 

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New Year Countdown Drinking to Stop at 1am

 

 

BANGKOK (TNA) – The Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration resolved to end all maximum disease control zones (red zones) and allow New Year countdown drinking to continue until 1am on Jan 1.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1242926-thailand-announces-new-measures-for-foreign-arrivals-new-year-countdown-details/?do=findComment&comment=17045547

 

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Thai farmers worry as Chinese-Laos high speed trains bring competing produce from China

By Erich Parpart

 

 

Thai farmers and farm cooperatives are calling for the government to conduct diplomatic talks with China to solve the increase of non-tariff barriers on Thai fresh food products.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1242989-thai-farmers-worry-as-chinese-laos-high-speed-trains-bring-competing-produce-from-china/

 

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Private sector needs to lead economic recovery, says global financial institute executive

 

Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP

 

Emphasising how the private sector is the one that needs to lead the country into recovery, Alfonso Garcia Mora, Vice President for Asia Pacific at the International Finance Corporation, (IFC), a sister organization of the World Bank, pointed to how Thai businesses can capitalise on electronic vehicle production, rethink their tourism strategies and embrace digitalisation going forward, in an exclusive interview with Thai PBS World last week when he visited the Bangkok office.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1242990-private-sector-needs-to-lead-economic-recovery-says-global-financial-institute-executive/

 

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Thailand reports 2,862 new COVID-19 cases, 37 deaths, 4,818 recoveries

 

File photo: REUTERS

 

Thailand on Tuesday (December 14) reported 2,862 new COVID-19 cases, 4,818 recoveries and 37 additional deaths over the past 24 hours. 

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1243002-thailand-reports-2862-new covid-19-cases-37-deaths-4818-recoveries/

 

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Immigration bust foreigners partying in Bangkok amid "Omicron" fears

 

Picture Daily News

 

Daily News reported that immigration and Hua Mark police busted a party being held in a converted shipping container in the Bangkok district of Ramkhamhaeng.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1243003-immigration-bust-foreigners-partying-in-bangkok-amid-omicron-fear/

 

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Video: Foreign and Thai tourists rescued by police after being blown onto rocks in Pranburi

 

 

Daily News reported that the police rescue services in Paknampran, Pranburi swung into action after reports of tourists in trouble.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1243004-video-foreign-and-thai-tourists-rescued-by-police-after-being-blown-onto-rocks-in-pranburi/

 

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Foul mouthed ladyboy - with mask under the chin - gets her marching orders from Chonburi market

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Things went from bad to worse for a ladyboy trader in spicy salad at a Siracha, Chonburi market after he was filmed "live" on two Facebook platforms.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1243005-foul-mouthed-ladyboy-with-mask-under-the-chin-gets-her-marching-orders-from-chonburi-market/

 

 

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Thong Lo police/BMA act on "light pollution" in Bangkok after pensioner complaint

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Daily News reported that a 60 year old Bangkok resident called Natthiya Assanuwong has had enough of a huge LED advertisement making her life a misery in Soi Thong Lo, Sukhumvit 55, Bangkok.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1243007-thong-lo-policebma-act-on-light-pollution-in-bangkok-after-pensioner-complaint/

 

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Pattaya: 16 vs 2 as restaurant staff attack Thai man and his friend; "shouldn't happen in a tourist town"

 

Picture: Naew Na

 

A Thai man told Naew Na that he fled for his life as he and a friend were attacked by 16 restaurant staffers in Pattaya.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1243014-pattaya-16-vs-2-as-restaurant-staff-attack-thai-man-and-his-friend-shouldnt-happen-in-a-tourist-town/

 

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Convicted poacher Premchai sleeping peacefully in prison hospital

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

A spokesman for the Thai corrections department Thawatchai Chaiwat told Thai Rath that convicted poacher Premchai Karnasuta's health had improved and he was sleeping normally in prison hospital in Thong Pha Phum, Kanchanaburi.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1243019-convicted-poacher-premchai-sleeping-peacefully-in-prison-hospital/

 

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Scary Video: Back wheel comes loose from 22 wheeler and bounces all over Bang Na - Trat highway

 

Thai caption: Boing Boing Boing!

 

Scary dash cam footage from the inbound express lane of the Bang Na - Trat highway showed the moment a double back wheel came loose off a 22 wheel truck.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1243020-scary-video-back-wheel-comes-loose-from-22-wheeler-and-bounces-all-over-bang-na-trat-highway/

 

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Video: Netizens get lottery advice after snake appears on windshield in TikTok post

 

Picture: Sanook

 

A video posted by Donut0093 on TikTok got a lot of attention, reported Sanook.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1243021-video-netizens-get-lottery-advice-after-snake-appears-on-windshield-in-tiktok-post/

 

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Thailand Road Carnage: One dead five injured in pickup/car collision in Kanchanaburi

 

Picture: Ban Muang

 

Ban Muang published pictures of the aftermath of a collision between a pickup and a car on Monday afternoon in Kanchanaburi in the west of Thailand.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1243022-thailand-road-carnage-one-dead-five-injured-in-pickupcar-collision-in-kanchanaburi/

 

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The carnage continues on the Thai roads: 75 deaths on Monday including Swiss tourist in Phuket

 

Picture: Daily News

 

Daily News reported that 75 "sops" (the Thai word for corpses) were dead at the scene of road accidents on Monday.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1243025-the-carnage-continues-on-the-thai-roads-75-deaths-on-monday-including-swiss-tourist-in-phuket/

 

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71% of inmates in Phitsanulok prison found infected with COVID-19

 

 

The provincial prison in Thailand’s northern province of Phitsanulok has been closed to all visitors since Monday after 1,559 of the 2,190 prisoners there tested positive for COVID-19 using antigen tests.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1243027-71-of-inmates-in-phitsanulok-prison-found-infected-with-covid-19/

 

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‘Disruptor’ Suchatvee Suwansawat ready to shine his bright light on Bangkok

 

 

After decades of shining bright in Thailand’s engineering and educational sectors, Prof Dr Suchatvee Suwansawat is now ready to kick-start his political career. The academic is preparing to contest in the upcoming Bangkok gubernatorial election under the banner of Thailand’s oldest party – the Democrat.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1243029-‘disruptor’-suchatvee-suwansawat-ready-to-shine-his-bright-light-on-bangkok/

 

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Chonburi announces 136 new and confirmed cases of Covid-19 and two new deaths

By Goong Nang(GN)

 

PHOTO: BMA Health

 

Highlights:

136 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Chonburi today

175 people recovered and were released from medical care

Two new deaths

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1243031-chonburi-announces-136-new-and-confirmed-cases-of-covid-19-and-two-new-deaths/

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Do or Die mission for ex-husband in Ayutthaya who gunned his ex-wife down in a hammock 

by James Morris and Son Nguyen

 

53-year-old Ms Jarupan Insutha (centre) shows the media how and where her 32-year-old daughter was killed by her ex-husband on Sunday evening last. 35-year-old Mr Phrompong Srikaew has already confessed to the murder after surrendering himself to police shortly after killing his estranged wife.

 

35-year-old husband went to the family home of his ex-wife to either make up with her or commit murder. When 32-year-old Jarupan Insutha again insisted that she had abandoned their long-standing marriage, he chose the latter before calmly driving away from the scene on his motorbike.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1243033-do-or-die-mission-for-ex-husband-in-ayutthaya-who-gunned-his-ex-wife-down-in-a-hammock/

 

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Northern Thailand, the Asian cycling hotspot that is quickly becoming a destination for the world’s best riders

 

● Chiang Mai has rapidly become one of the world’s prime cycling destinations

● But with the Chiang Rai just up the road, it’s not the only place in the area with great riding on tap

 

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Japanese professional cyclist Yukiya Arashiro, training in Thailand. Photo: Steve Thomas

 

Chiang Mai in northern Thailand has rapidly become one of the world’s prime cycling destinations, although it’s not the only place in the area with great riding on tap.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1243036-northern-thailand-the-asian-cycling-hotspot-that-is-quickly-becoming-a-destination-for-the-world’s-best-riders/

 

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Chaturon nixes new party thoughts, rejoins Pheu Thai

By Erich Parpart

 

 

Chaturon Chaisang and his working group announced on Tuesday that they would be rejoining the Pheu Thai Party due to complications from a new constitutional amendment.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1243039-chaturon-nixes-new-party-thoughts-rejoins-pheu-thai/

 

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Thai pilot, trainee die in helicopter crash in Nakhon Sawan province

 

 

A pilot and his trainee were killed when a helicopter, on a routine training flight from an airfield in Nakhon Sawan province, crashed this morning (Tuesday).

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1243043-thai-pilot-trainee-die-in-helicopter-crash-in-nakhon-sawan-province/

 

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Cabinet suspends controversial Chana industrial project, protesters see move as ‘buying time’

 

 

The Thai cabinet decided today (Tuesday) to suspend the implementation of the controversial industrial estate project in Chana district of the southern province of Songkhla, pending a new Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of the project to be undertaken by an ad hoc committee chaired by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.

 

Full Story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1243061-cabinet-suspends-controversial-chana-industrial-project-protesters-see-move-as-‘buying-time’/