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Myanmar activists cancel new year festivities, hold silent protests

Highlights

The huge challenges facing Thailand’s ageing society

National Elderly Day on April 13 serves as a reminder that Thai society is ageing fast. The country is facing a multitude of challenges as its elderly population expands rapidly amid slower economic growth and a shrinking working-age population. Worse, the country has been hit by a third wave of...
Two senior Thonglor police officers transferred over pub COVID-19 cluster

The superintendent of Thonglor police station, Pol Col Duangchote Suwancharas, and Pol Lt-Col Thanakorn Ngamyen, the inspector for suppression affairs, have been transferred to the operations centre of Metropolitan Police Bureau’s (MPB) 5th Division, effective today, pending an investigation into their conduct in connection with the Thonglor COVID-19 cluster. Police...
ASEAN summit: Will Myanmar listen to its friends?

When ASEAN leaders sit down for a summit to address the ongoing crisis in Myanmar, they know full well that the whole world will be watching. And they also realize that what is at stake is not only the lives of Myanmar people fighting for democracy on the streets, but...
Thai Govt facing backlash as third wave of COVID threatens to engulf Thailand

COVID-19 has been around for more than a year already in Thailand. Since it began spreading in early 2020, experts have been warning about more dangerous waves of infection to come. Yet, when the third wave finally hit this month, the government was seemingly caught ill-prepared. “We are not that...
Thailand’s monarch offers condolences to HRH Queen Elizabeth II following the death of Prince Philip

His Majesty King Vajiralongkorn has sent a message offering his condolences to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on the death of her husband, His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. The statement released by Thai Royal Household bureau stated that Thai King and Queen are deeply saddened by the...

Access to Kaeng Krachan national park tightened after COVID-19 scare

US agencies recommend ‘pause’ in use of Johnson & Johnson vaccine ov...

965 new COVID-19 cases recorded in Thailand on Tuesday

Couple to face legal action for not disclosing their COVID infections

Bang Bon field hospital opens to accept first 10 COVID-19 patients

Myanmar activists cancel new year festivities, hold silent protests

Access to Kaeng Krachan national park tightened after COVID-19 scare

Op-Ed: Let’s do more to accomplish a healthy aging community during the covid-19 pand...

965 new COVID-19 cases recorded in Thailand on Tuesday

Couple to face legal action for not disclosing their COVID infections

Bang Bon field hospital opens to accept first 10 COVID-19 patients

Videos

Talat Noi: Bangkok’s hidden Chinatown

April 10, 2021

Hiring market optimistic after COVID-19 economic freeze in 2020 – Thai PBS World Tonight [9th April 2021]

April 10, 2021

Thailand enters the third COVID-19 wave? – Thai PBS World Tonight [9th April 2021]

April 10, 2021

Twitter spotlights Asia democracy movements with #MilkTeaAlliance emoji – Thai PBS World Tonight [8th April 2021]

April 9, 2021

Experts concerned more children are contracting COVID-19 in the latest wave – Thai PBS World Tonight [8th April 2021]

April 9, 2021

Bangkok cancels all Songkran festivities – Thai PBS World Tonight [8th April 2021]

April 9, 2021

Home Away: Adrian Van de Velde, Australian Advertising Film Director [Part 2]

April 8, 2021

Prolonged state of emergency troubles rights and freedom – Thai PBS World Tonight [7th April 2021]

April 8, 2021

Pub cluster spreads to 15 provinces – Thai PBS World Tonight [7th April 2021]

April 8, 2021

Coronavirus Outbreak Update

US agencies recommend ‘pause’ in use of Johnson & Johnson vaccine over blood clot fears

US health authorities recommended a "pause" Tuesday in the use of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine "out of an...

April 13, 2021

Access to Kaeng Krachan national park tightened after COVID-19 scare
- April 13, 2021
965 new COVID-19 cases recorded in Thailand on Tuesday
- April 13, 2021
Couple to face legal action for not disclosing their COVID infections
- April 13, 2021
WHO warns pandemic at ‘critical point’ as South Asia cases surge
- April 12, 2021
Two senior Thonglor police officers transferred over pub COVID-19 cluster
- April 12, 2021

The rise and fall of Saksayam Chidchob, Thailand’s first COVID-positive Cabinet minister

Saksayam Chidchob was previously best known as the “nominee” of his older brother, veteran politician Newin. However, last week he...

His decision to hold back details of his timeline attracted much public criticism. The missing details were filled in by a Public Health Ministry official in Buri Ram, but further changes and clarifications to his...

April 13, 2021

Ratsadon leader Patiwat Saraiyaem granted bail by court
- April 9, 2021
Opposition Pheu Thai party seeks Charter Court ruling on PM’s ministerial status
- April 8, 2021
Sick of polarised politics, Bangkok voters favour ‘independent’ as governor election looms
- April 8, 2021
UDD chairman acknowledges difficulty of bringing people of different political shades together
- April 6, 2021
Legal action to be taken against political activists for Sunday’s anti-Prayut rally
- April 5, 2021

Myanmar Journal: Another charge for Suu Kyi, just before the annual Thingyan

April 12 - The next court hearing for Aung San Suu Kyi is scheduled for April 26th, after a criminal...

It was a day before Thingyan, Myanmar’s New Year festival, when a sense of normality returned, as some of the extreme pressure on Yangon lightened.

April 13, 2021

Myanmar Journal: Ethnic armed forces coalition asks junta to stop the crackdown
- March 31, 2021
Myanmar Report: The coup and the use of all weapons possible
- March 31, 2021
Myanmar Report: Armed Forces Day sees bloodiest crackdown
- March 27, 2021

The rise and fall of Saksayam Chidchob, Thailand’s first COVID-positive Cabinet minister

Saksayam Chidchob was previously best known as the “nominee” of his older brother, veteran politician Newin. However, last week he...

His decision to hold back details of his timeline attracted much public criticism. The missing details were filled in by a Public Health Ministry official in Buri Ram, but further changes and clarifications to his...

April 13, 2021

Chaiwut, the man with a mission to defend Thailand from the fake-news tsunami
- March 29, 2021

The huge challenges facing Thailand’s ageing society

National Elderly Day on April 13 serves as a reminder that Thai society is ageing fast. The country is facing...

April 13, 2021

Chonburi records 40 more COVID-19 infections related to entertainment cluster
- April 8, 2021
Why Bangkok’s Chao Phraya Promenade is still a dream
- April 6, 2021
Thai government allows food to be sent to IDPs in Myanmar
- April 6, 2021

Philippines summons Beijing’s envoy over boats in South China Sea

The Philippine foreign ministry said Tuesday it had confronted Beijing's envoy over the "illegal lingering" of Chinese boats at a...

April 13, 2021

Myanmar Journal: Another charge for Suu Kyi, just before the annual Thingyan
- April 13, 2021
Myanmar activists cancel new year festivities, hold silent protests
- April 13, 2021
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi hit with new criminal charge
- April 12, 2021
ASEAN summit: Will Myanmar listen to its friends?
- April 12, 2021

The rise and fall of Saksayam Chidchob, Thailand’s first COVID-positive Cabinet minister

Saksayam Chidchob was previously best known as the “nominee” of his older brother, veteran politician Newin. However, last week he...

His decision to hold back details of his timeline attracted much public criticism. The missing details were filled in by a Public Health Ministry official in Buri Ram, but further changes and clarifications to his...