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Phuket Red Cross calls for blood donations Phuket Red Cross calls for blood donations PHUKET: All people are invited to come to donate their blood at the Phuket Red Cross Regional Blood Center (PRBC) in Phuket Town and at mobile stations for blood donations in Phuket, Phang Nga and Krabi between Feb 8-12 to make merit for Chinese New Year, which is this Friday (Feb 12). Image: PRBC “At this stage, stocks of blood types A+ and AB+ are lower than normally required in our blood bank, plus A- and AB- are always required at all times as there are not many of these blood donors,” said a PRBC st...

Activists charged over Khlong Luang rallies All 21 released after reporting to police for questioning about January demonstrations published : 5 Feb 2021 at 20:08 111 Parit Chiwarak and Panusya Sithijirawattanakul are embraced by supporters outside the Khlong Luang police station in Pathum Thani, where they and 19 others reported to authorities on Friday. (Photo by Pongpat Wongyala) PATHUM THANI: Police on Friday temporarily freed 21 pro-democracy activists after formally charging them with defying a ban on public assembly on two occasions...

For border-crossing Thai tigers, the forest on the other side isn’t as green by Carolyn Cowan on 3 February 2021 Straddling the Myanmar-Thai border, the Dawna Tenasserim Landscape (DTL) is the intersection of four different biogeographic zones and consequently supports rich species diversity. The ecosystem is particularly important for the survival of Southeast Asia’s big cats, including the Indochinese tiger. Large, wide-ranging species like tigers require connected networks of forests to move and disperse through; the species cannot thrive in isolated pockets of protected forest. Effor...

LANTA ISLAND, 27 January 2021: From face mask to snorkelling mask, Thailand’s Koh Lanta is a destination that is ready to welcome guests safely as we head for a post-Covid-19 era and those vaccines kick-in. We are still experiencing severe disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and the pain of social distancing to varying degrees depending on our lifestyle and family connections, but we have seen the light at the end of the tunnel. Vaccine programmes are rolling out and travel to our favourite destinations will resume soon. For now, we wait and see or muse over the making of a trave...

Coldwater, MI, USA / WTVB | 1590 AM · 95.5 FM | The Voice of Branch County Jan 15, 2021 3:19 AM BANGKOK (Reuters) - Scores of Thai protesters briefly scuffled with police on Friday, saying they feared another student activist would be charged with insulting Thailand's king. But police and the lawyer for activist Chaiyapon Danothai said he did not face lese majeste charges, which have been brought against at least 40 protesters since November and can mean a 15-year jail term if found guilty. Protesters pushed and shoved about a dozen officers at a police station near Bangkok, where they b...