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SOURCE / ECONOMY By Global Times Published: Mar 08, 2021 09:18 PM
A passenger scans a health code provided by a car-hailing driver in Beijing on Monday, the first day that Beijing required car hailing services to register the health codes of passengers. Photo: Liu Caiyu/GT
The Chinese version of the international travel health certificate was officially launched on Monday on the WeChat mini program, available for Chinese citizens, according to the official WeChat account of the Department of Consular Affairs under the Foreign Ministry (FM).
The health certificate contains an encrypted QR code for the relevant departments of various countries to verify its authenticity and read personal information. In addition to the electronic display, it can also be printed to generate a paper version.
December 31, 2020
The Nation/Asia News Network
The Foreign Ministry is offering a free translation service and also waiving certification fees for 19 types of documents, in what it calls a “New Year gift” for customers.
“The free translation service is available from Dec 21 until Jan 20, while the Bt200 (S$8.80) document certification fee will be waived for the first two weeks, or 10 working days, of 2021,” he said.
Documents covered are ID card, civil registration particulars, house registration, birth certificate, death certificate, marriage certificate, registration of marriage, divorce certificate, registration of divorce, registration of family status, record of family status, certificate of personal title, certificate of surname change, certificate of name change, certificate of surname joint usage, certificate of surname registration, certificate of marital status, certificate of child custody, and letter of consent for child’s foreign travel.
Tanee Sangrat, director-general of the Department of Information
Thirty-two Thai workers in South Korea have tested positive for Covid-19 as health care workers there await test results of 28 more, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Tanee Sangrat, director-general of the Department of Information and spokesman for the ministry, on Friday said Korean authorities on Thursday confirmed 32 Thai workers tested positive for the virus, and the Royal Thai Embassy in Seoul has been in contact with the patients and is ready to provide assistance.
The first case was a Thai worker who reportedly had been infected while working at a food company. The worker was said to have visited a restaurant popular among Thai migrant workers in Cheonan, a city about 80 kilometres south of the capital Seoul.
Thai Smile flights hoped to spark tourism boost for Phuket
Thai Smile flights hoped to spark tourism boost for Phuket
PHUKET: Thai Smile, the domestic carrier operated by THAI Airways International, will increase its number of flights to Phuket in the New Year in the hope that other airlines will follow, leading to cheaper airfares to Phuket.
Wednesday 16 December 2020, 01:11PM
Phuket Governor Narong Woonchiew announced the news during a press conference broadcast live online this morning (Dec 16). Image: Screenshot / PR Phuket
Phuket Governor Narong Woonchiew announced the news during a press conference broadcast live online this morning (Dec 16).
Governor Narong admitted that despite the multitude of domestic tourism campaigns currently underway, the number of Thai tourists coming to Phuket has fallen far short of enough to help support Phuket’s devastated tourism industry.