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After the completion of the search and rescue operations, the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation will carry out rehabilitation of Tham Luang cave to repair all the damage inflicted on the cave by the operations and to upgrade it into a national park. Mr Jongklai Worapongsathorn, the department’s deputy director-general, said today
The Bank of Thailand will put new 500 and 1,000 baht banknotes in circulation on July 28 to mark His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun’s birthday, BoT governor Veerathai Santiprabhob said on Tuesday. The front of both the new 500 and 1,000 baht banknotes show a portrait of King Vajiralongkorn in an air force commander
The Thai Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, has advised Thai people who plan to travel to Bali to check information on flights to the resort island before departure. The advisory was issued after Mount Agung volcano erupted on Monday (July 2), spewing ash and smoke, and an earthquake measuring 5 on the Richter scale shook Bali
How the 12 boys and their football coach survived in the cave in total darkness for ten days without food except for water and still look quite healthy? Mr Pattharaphol Manee-on, a veterinarian at the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation, believes he has the answer – rain water. In his Facebook post,
HM King asks government to treat foreign rescuers as his personal guests His Majesty the King has advised rescuers that their plan to extract the 13 survivors form the flooded cave must be carefully thought out with their health and mental conditions taken into consideration and to make sure that both the rescuers and the
The Cabinet today decided to maintain the value-added tax at 7 percent for another year as of October 1. Mr Natthaporn Jatusripitak, spokesman of Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak, said the Cabinet was concerned that increasing the VAT rate might impact the overall economy, investments and domestic consumption. Increasing the VAT rate above
Former prime minister Najib Razak of Malaysia was arrested by Malaysia’s anti-corruption agency today. According to a statement from the task force probing corruption in the state fund 1MDB, Najib was picked up from his mansion in Jalan Langgak Duta in Kuala Lumpur at 2.35 pm allegedly in connection with the investigation into a corruption
Farmers whose rice fields have been damaged by flooding as a resul of water being drained out of the Tham Luang-Khun Nam Nang Non National Park will get a compensation of 1,100 baht per rai, Agriculture Minister Grisada Boonrach said on Tuesday (July 3). The draining of the water from the national park is part
Although it could be some time before the 13 survivors of the Tham Luang cave ordeal will see the light of the day, Navy SEAL commander Rear Admiral Arpakorn Yookongkaew gave an assurance today that they will all eventually be returned safely to their families. Speaking at a press briefing at about 5.15 pm today,
None of the 12 young football players and their coach are found to be seriously ill even though they have been trapped without foods in Tham Luang cave in Chiang Rai’s Mae Sai district for over 10 days, Chiang Rai Governor Narongsak Osotthanakorn said this morning. Narongsak said the boys and their 25-year-old coach were
Chiang Rai Governor Narongsak Osotthanakorn has probably been the most visible figure throughout the 10 days of the painstaking search and rescue operation at Tham Luang cave in Chiang Rai province that gripped the whole nation. He has become a darling of social media users who are impressed with his able and no-nonsense style of handling
Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha this morning thanked all parties concerned for the success of the mission that saw the 12 missing young footballers and their coach found alive and well inside Tham Luang cave where they have been stranded since June 23. In a tele-conference conducted at the Government House with officials running
The 12 young footballers and their coach trapped for 10 days in Tham Luang cave in Chiang Rai were definitely relieved when they saw the first team of rescuers emerge in the dark chamber where they were taking refuge. But they must also have been surprised when the first words they heard were in English.
Malaysia’s political rising star Syed Saddiq Abdul Rahman, who will turn 26 in December, has become the youngest-ever cabinet member in the country after he was sworn in today, Malaysian media reported. The youngest of four children, the Johor-born Syed’s appointment as youth and sports minister under the new Pakatan Harapan government is also historic
As SEAL units continued to painstakingly advance today toward the spot where the 12 missing young footballers and their coach are being trapped in Tham Luang cave, rescue teams have located six cavities and started drilling for possible points of entry at two of them. Third Army Region deputy commander Maj-Gen Supachoke Thawatphirachai said army
Russia defied all odds to force Spain to a penalty shootout that saw it edge out the former World Cup champion to occupy a spot in the quarter finals. Igor Akinfeev made two saves to give host Russia the 4-3 win. It was the first match of the current World Cup that had to be
