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Anutin: Forget "Phuket Model" - opening up the kingdom is "Thailand Model"

 

Anutin says "We're ready!"

 

Thailand's deputy PM and Health Minister said before yesterday's CCSA meeting that opening up the country to foreign tourists should no longer be called the Phuket Model.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1184914-anutin-forget-phuket-model-opening-up-the-kingdom-is-thailand-model/

 

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Filipino teacher at center of abuse allegations: He was on tourist visa and had no Work Permit

 

Picture: Daily News

 

The Filipino English teacher at the center of allegations that he assaulted a kindergarten student at a top school in Nonthaburi was staying in Thailand on a 30 day tourist visa. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1184931-filipino-teacher-at-center-of-abuse-allegations-he-was-on-tourist-visa-and-had-no-work-permit/

 

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19 Thais held for crossing Myanmar border

By The Nation

 

 

Soldiers arrested 19 Thai casino employees who fled Myanmar for Tak's Mae Sot district early on Tuesday morning.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1184946-19-thais-held-for-crossing-myanmar-border/

 

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Car and motorcycle end up on Bang Saray beach after accident

 

Picture: Siamchon News

 

Sattahip police and rescue services were called after a car with Bangkok plates and a motorcycle ended up on the beach at Bang Saray after an accident. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1184945-car-and-motorcycle-end-up-on-bang-saray-beach-after-accident/

 

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Horror smash invoking bus en route to Pattaya claims eighth victim

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

It has been revealed that the horror smash involving a double decker tour bus that crashed into a truck-trailer in Korat in the early hours of Saturday morning was on a "Rao Thiaw Duay Gan" - or "let's take a trip together" domestic tourism stimulus package.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1184941-horror-smash-invoking-bus-en-route-to-pattaya-claims-eighth-victim/

 

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14 found positive in quarantine

By The Nation

 

 

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration on Tuesday reported 14 cases in state quarantine over a 24-hour period.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1184949-14-found-positive-in-quarantine/

 

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Unthinkable a year ago! Video shows how COVID-19 has turned Walking Street in to a ghost town

 

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It would have been something absolutely unthinkable a year ago. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1184952-unthinkable-a-year-ago-video-shows-how-covid-19-has-turned-walking-street-in-to-a-ghost-town/

 

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Bangkok: Will  the "Venice of the East" disappear under the sea in 30 years!?

 

 

It is one of the oldest of old chestnuts in the Thai media that is reported every rainy season. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1184953-bangkok-will -the venice-of-the-east-disappear-under-the-sea-in-30-years/

 

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Phatsapasa Resort ordered to remove ‘huts’ from Kanchanaburi forest land

By The Nation

 

 

The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation has ordered Phatsapasa Resort in Kanchanaburi to remove its “huts” for encroaching on Khao Laem National Park land.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1184954-phatsapasa-resort-ordered-to-remove-‘huts’-from-kanchanaburi-forest-land/

 

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Video: Giant King Cobra fights back! But expertise of snake catchers prevails in the end

 

Picture: Sanook

 

A video showed the sterling work of the "Phithak Ngoo Muang Chan" snake catchers in Chanthaburi in the east of Thailand. 

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1184961-video-giant-king-cobra-fights-back-but-expertise-of-snake-catchers-prevails-in-the-end/

 

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Two killed as brand new Samut Sakhon oil refinery bursts into flames

By THE NATION

 

 

Two people were killed in a fiery explosion at the GRD Energy oil refinery in Samut Sakhon during a test run.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1184973-two-killed-as-brand-new-samut-sakhon-oil-refinery-bursts-into-flames/

 

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Thailand to slowly restart tourism with flight from China

By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Chayut Setboonsarng

 

FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: A few Western tourists are seen on a beach which is usually full of Chinese tourists, amid fear of coronavirus in Phuket, Thailand March 10, 2020. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/File Photo/File Photo

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand will receive its first foreign vacationers when a flight from China arrives next week, marking the gradual restart of a vital tourism sector battered by coronavirus travel curbs, a senior official said on Tuesday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1184981-thailand to-slowly-restart-tourism-with-flight-from-china/

 

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Cabinet resolves to put Thailand under state of emergency until end October

By The Nation

 

 

The Cabinet on Tuesday decided to extend the emergency decree by another month until the end of October in a bid to curb the spread of Covid-19.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1184982-cabinet-resolves-to-put-thailand-under-state-of-emergency-until-end-october/

 

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Visa extensions approved under previous amnesty to be upheld until Nov 30

By The Phuket News

 

Immigration Bureau Deputy Commissioner Maj Gen Pornchai Kuntee announced the news at a press conference at the Immigration Bureau headquarters in Bangkok today (Sept 29). 

 

PHUKET: Foreigners who had already paid B1,900 and been approved an extension to stay of 30 days from Sept 27 under the previous ‘visa amnesty’ will be allowed to stay in Thailand until Nov 30 at no extra cost.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1184985-visa-extensions-approved-under-previous-amnesty-to-be-upheld-until-nov-30/

 

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7-Eleven delivery staff saves client’s life in Bangkok

By The Nation

 

 

“Clients are not gods, clients are family,” said 7-Eleven delivery staff Sumonsri Pengthab after saving a client who had collapsed in front of her.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1184987-7-eleven-delivery-staff-saves-client’s-life-in-bangkok/

 

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Two hurt: crane truck rams multiple vehicles in Ubon after 'brake failure'

By THE NATION

 

 

Two people escaped with injuries after a crane truck “accidentally” crashed into five vehicles, a bicycle and a motorbike on Monday evening in Ubon Ratchathani’s Mueang district, causing a traffic jam stretching one kilometre.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1184989-two-hurt-crane-truck-rams-multiple-vehicles-in-ubon-after-brake-failure/

 

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Beauty queen hires famous lawyer to help squelch ‘spy’ rumours

By The Nation

 

 

Miss Universe Thailand favourite, Chayathanus “Cheraim” Saradatta met Saranya Wangsukcharoen, better known as “Lawyer Nida”, on Monday to seek help with rumours that she has placed a “spy” in the contest organising company.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1184992-beauty-queen-hires-famous-lawyer-to-help-squelch-‘spy’-rumours/

 

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Mysterious fire wipes out official documents in Ubon Ratchathani sub-district’s administration office

By The Nation

 

 

A mysterious fire burned all financial documents and ballot papers at a building owned by Muang Ubon Ratchathani’s Pa Ao sub-district administration organisation on Monday.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1184993-mysterious-fire-wipes-out-official-documents-in-ubon-ratchathani-sub-district’s-administration-office/

 

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Thailand’s Hazardous Substances Committee upholds ban on farm chemicals

 

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Contrary to speculation by anti-paraquat groups, the Hazardous Substances Committee has reconfirmed its ban on the production, import, export and possession of the herbicide paraquat and pesticide chlorpyrifos, which came into effect on June 1st, 2020.

 

Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1184995-thailand’s-hazardous-substances-committee-upholds-ban-on-farm-chemicals/

 

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Global coronavirus pandemic passes 'agonizing milestone' of a million deaths

By Jane Wardell

 

FILE PHOTO: Workers prepare new graves at the Christian burial area provided by the government for victims of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Pondok Ranggon cemetery complex in Jakarta, Indonesia, September 16, 2020. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana/File Photo

 

(Reuters) - The global coronavirus death toll rose past a million on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally, a grim statistic in a pandemic that has devastated the global economy, overloaded health systems and changed the way people live.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1185009-global-coronavirus-pandemic-passes-agonizing-milestone-of-a-million-deaths/

 

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EU won't accept Britain going back on Brexit deal, Germany's Roth says - magazine

 

FILE PHOTO: German Minister of State for Europe at the Federal Foreign Office, Michael Roth gives a news conference after the General Affairs Council at the European Council Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, September 22, 2020. Aris Oikonomou/Pool via REUTERS

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Europe Minister Michael Roth has written an open letter to the British government saying that the European Union cannot and will not accept London questioning the Brexit agreement signed nine months ago.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1185010-eu-wont-accept-britain-going-back-on-brexit-deal-germanys-roth-says-magazine/

 

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Thai economy seen contracting less than forecast this year - ministry

 

FILE PHOTO: Cars pass a Skytrain (Bangkok Mass Transit System) construction site in Bangkok, Thailand May 13, 2018. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's economy is likely to shrink less this year than the record 8.5% projected previously, helped by government stimulus measures, the finance ministry said on Tuesday.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1185011-thai-economy-seen-contracting-less-than-forecast-this-year-ministry/

 

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With social media and academics, Thai villagers save ancestral forest

By Rina Chandran

 

Members of the Boon Rueang Wetland Forest Conservation Group at the community wetland forest in Ban Boon Rueang, Thailand. September 1, 2020. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Rina Chandran

 

BOON RUEANG, Thailand (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The villagers of Ban Boon Rueang in northern Thailand had long known that they benefited from the community wetland forest that supplied them with fish and firewood, but it wasn't until devastating floods in 2010 that they realised just how much.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1185014-with-social-media-and-academics-thai-villagers-save-ancestral-forest/

 

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Vietnam economic growth picks up as new virus outbreaks tamed

By Khanh Vu

 

FILE PHOTO: Shipping containers are loaded to a ship at a port in Hai Phong city, Vietnam July 12, 2018. REUTERS/Kham

 

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam’s economic growth picked up pace in the third quarter this year after hitting the slowest level in decades in the second quarter, official data showed on Tuesday, but remains significantly below the pre-pandemic period.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1185015-vietnam-economic-growth-picks-up-as-new-virus-outbreaks-tamed/

 

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Philippines accuses Facebook of censoring pro-government content

 

FILE PHOTO: A Facebook logo is displayed on a smartphone in this illustration taken January 6, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

 

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines accused Facebook on Tuesday of censoring pro-government content which it said was tantamount to curtailing freedom of speech and called for new measures to regulate the social media giant to "level the playing field".

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1185016-philippines-accuses-facebook-of-censoring-pro-government-content/

 

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Philippines extends partial coronavirus curbs in Manila until Oct 31

 

FILE PHOTO: A man walks past almost empty restaurants amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at a financial district in Bonifacio Global City, Taguig, Metro Manila, Philippines, September 22, 2020. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez/File Photo

 

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday partial coronavirus restrictions in and around the capital region will be extended for another month until Oct. 31 to keep the spread of COVID-19 in check.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1185019-philippines-extends-partial-coronavirus-curbs-in-manila-until-oct-31/

 

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Pandemic-hit Singapore Airlines launches plane dining and takeaway cabin food

By Chen Lin

 

FILE PHOTO: An Airbus A380-800 aircraft of Singapore Airlines takes off from Zurich airport, Switzerland October 16, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

 

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore Airlines plans to turn one of its grounded jumbo jets into a pop-up restaurant and offer home-delivered plane food as part of a series of initiatives to try an re-engage customers who have not been able to travel due to the coronavirus pandemic.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1185022-pandemic-hit-singapore-airlines-launches-plane-dining-and-takeaway-cabin-food/

 

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How the global coronavirus pandemic unfolded

 

FILE PHOTO: A sign promoting social distancing is pictured in the Gallerian shopping center, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, in Stockholm, Sweden, May 12, 2020. TT News Agency/Henrik Montgomery via REUTERS/Files

 

(Reuters) - Here are some key developments as the novel coronavirus spread around the world:

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1185023-how-the-global-coronavirus-pandemic-unfolded/

 

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Thai seniors have until Wednesday to register for govt allowance

By THE NATION

 

 

A local group called on the elderly on Monday to register at a local government organisation for the state allowance by the end of this month.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1185024-thai-seniors-have-until-wednesday-to-register-for-govt-allowance/

 

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Buri Ram thief steals pickup, but leaves his bike behind

By THE NATION

 

 

A thief made off with a pick-up truck in Buri Ram province on Saturday, but left his bicycle behind as evidence of his crime.

 

Full Story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1185027-buri-ram-thief-steals-pickup-but-leaves-his-bike-behind/