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The Cabinet today approved the “Thai Chuay Thai Plus” co-payment scheme, under which about 30 million Thai citizens aged 18 and over will receive a taxpayer-funded monthly benefit of 1,000 baht for four months to purchase goods and services.
The Cabinet today endorsed the cancellation of the pre-travel 60-day visa exemption scheme for 93 countries, a privilege granted two years ago, Tourism and Sports Minister Surasak Phancharoenworakul said after the Cabinet meeting.
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives in Beijing on Tuesday for a summit with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, looking to deepen a strategic partnership stretching from Scandinavia to Southeast Asia.
The State Railway of Thailand (SRT) has described as misleading viral social media reports claiming that a train ran into a person in Bangkok’s Makkasan district this morning, insisting that the incident was caused by trespassing onto railway property.
The Disease Control Department is closely monitoring the highly transmissible Mpox clade lb strain, after two new cases were reported in April and May, and it is strongly advising people to avoid risky behavior and intimate contact with strangers.
Police are ready to coordinate with the State Railway of Thailand, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration and other relevant agencies to overhaul safety at all railway crossings in Bangkok, in the hope of preventing a repeat of Saturday’s fatal train-bus collision at the Makkasan crossing, which killed eight people and injured many others.
The Cabinet has declared Friday October 16, 2026, a special public holiday in Bangkok and approved working-from-home on three more days to reduce traffic on the capital’s roads during the annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
A man was seriously injured when he received a glancing blow from a moving train in Bangkok’s Makkasan district this morning.
The Department of Disease Control (DDC) has upgraded its surveillance measures for travellers arriving from high-risk countries, specifically central African countries like Congo and Uganda which are currently battling a growing outbreak of the often fatal haemorrhagic disease. No cases have been detected in Thailand so far.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul signed an order today for the formation of an anti-corruption board, led by himself, as a part of the process for Thailand’s accession to membership of the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2028.
While Thailand has signaled its intention to scrap the memorandum of understanding (MOU) on maritime claims with Cambodia, the administration under Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul appears far less prepared to manage the impending legal, diplomatic and political fallout.
The National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) has found convicted former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom to be “unusually wealthy” after he amassed 107 million baht in illicit assets.
Khao Kheow Open Zoo announced today Thailand’s first successful artificial hatching of a greater adjutant chick, an endangered member of the stork family that has not been seen in the wild in the country for more than 40 years.
Makkasan police today asked the Criminal Court to remand the train driver and a railway crossing guard on charges of causing death and serious injury through negligence after a train crashed into a passenger bus on Saturday, killing eight people and injuring many others.
The driver of the train that crashed into a bus, killing eight people in Bangkok over the weekend, has told police he regularly uses methamphetamine pills and cannabis.
Thai nationals applying for short-stay Schengen visas at EU embassies in Thailand will now be eligible for longer-validity multiple-entry visas under the EU’s “Visa Cascade” scheme, according to a statement issued today by Thailand’s Foreign Ministry.
