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8 Staff in a mobile kitchen run by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration prepare food to be delivered to medical personnel at BMA-run hospitals and field hospitals on Friday. The mobile kitchen, which is next to City Hall in Phra Nakhon district, is open on Tuesdays and Fridays. (Photo: Apichart Jinakul) The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is expanding Covid-19 mass testing across the capital with a plan to test 3,000 people in risk groups each day for the n...

Woman accused of B500m lottery investment fraud 12 published : 7 May 2021 at 16:58 12 Pol Col Nawin Theerawit, chief of Muang police in Trat, said at least 50 people filed complaints against the wanted woman on Friday, for the second day running. Alleged losses were already at least 500 million baht, and rising. (Photo: Jakkrit Waewkraihong) TRAT: A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a 30-year-old woman accused of swindling people in ...

Koh Kut reopens after 7 days published : 3 May 2021 at 04:30 TRATt: Koh Kut, a popular tourist destination, reopened on Sunday after a seven-day closure. Trat had ordered the tourist island closed from April 23 to May 1 after two people were found infected with Covid-19. Plapplueng Permsap, head of the provincial tourism promotion club, said the closure was to help contain the spread of the virus and no new cases were reported in the past seven days. However, she sa...

Residents threaten to torch conference hall if used as field hospital Residents threaten to torch conference hall if used as field hospital THAILAND: Frightened local residents have threatened to burn down a conference hall in Nakhon Sri Thammarat in Muang district if it is converted into a field hospital for COVID-19 patients. Wednesday 28 April 2021, 05:43PM A cloth banner declares, “If the municipality sets it up (a field hospital), Na Khian residents will set fire to it”, outside the co...

Environmental art initiative aims to help paint a better future for Southeast Asia by Carolyn Cowan on 21 April 2021 Supported by Wildlife Asia, the PARDICOLOR Creative Arts Fund subsidizes artists producing works that highlight environmental issues in Southeast Asia. The arts initiative is intended to complement conservation work in locations like Salween Peace Park in Myanmar and Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem. “If we can only create what we can imagine, then art and ideas are an integral ...

Patrick Clarke , April 21st, 2021 11:26 Howie Lee talks new album Birdy Island, a blend of traditional Chinese folk and club production that strikes a beautiful balance between the human, the artificial, the ancient and the organic Photos by Ash Lin For the last five years, Howie Lee has been dreaming up an island. It is inspired by three places. The first is Ko Chang in Thailand, to which the producer travels at least once a year. Known as ‘Elephant Island’ for the way it resembles the sh...

BANGKOK, 19 April 2021: As Thailand’s week-long Songkran Festival holiday came to a close at the weekend, citizens braced for a string of new restrictions to curb a surge in Covid-19 infections. In a Friday evening TV briefing, the government spelt out the new restrictions that came into effect Sunday 18 April. However, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration emphasised it was not declaring a return to a strict nationwide lockdown or curfew. It has banned public gatherings for two we...

14 A womans attempt to sell a vast piece of island parkland for 350 million baht could backfire on her. The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) is investigating a Facebook post in which the woman tried to sell the 298-rai (47-hectare) piece of land on Koh Wai island in Trats Mu Koh Chang Marine National Park. "The department has checked the total amount of land on Koh Wai island and we found it is impossible for anyone to own 298 rai plots in the national park,"...

Tourists flock to Koh Chang 31 Hundreds of cars queuing to board ferry for popular island in Trat published : 10 Apr 2021 at 15:40 31 Traffic is heavy on the road leading to the Ao Thammachart ferry pier in Laem Ngop district of Trat as tourists flock to Koh Chang on Saturday. (Photo: Jakkrit Waewkhraihong) TRAT: Tourists flocked to Koh Chang on Saturday, on the first day of the Songkran holiday despite the sharp rise in Covid-19 infections ...

University student found dead with neck wound 3 published : 16 Mar 2021 at 12:43 3 Rescue workers lift the body of the slain university student from the grass behind the Tesco Lotus Rangsit store, in Pathum Thanis Thanyaburi district, on Monday. (Photo: Pongpat Wongyala) PATHUM THANI: A male university student was found dead in wild grass in Thanyaburi district on Monday, with a knife wound to his neck. The body of Soryut Pimaneewan, 25, of ...