Thailand targets record-extending 17th SEA Games volleyball crown
Thai women's volleyball team sets out on their quest for a record-extending 17th SEA Games title against Singapore on Dec 10
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Thai women's volleyball team sets out on their quest for a record-extending 17th SEA Games title against Singapore on Dec 10
The Ministry of Labour has implemented several measures to help employers and employees affected by flooding in nine southern province, which include 4,000 manual jobs for unskilled and migrant workers at 300 baht/day for ten days and low-interest soft loans for motorcycle and electrical appliance repair businesses and workshops.
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Songkhla police have set up a temporary command centre in Hat Yai’s Kor Hong Police Station, as reports of missing or stolen property have increased since the floodwaters began to recede.
Songkhla’s tourism industry may lose as much as ฺBt7 billion, as the severe flooding has devastated Hat Yai and surrounding districts and forced upcoming SEA Games events to be moved to Bangkok, President of the Hat Yai–Songkhla Hotels Association, Sitthipong Sitthiphatprapa said today.
The National Energy Regulatory Commission (NERC) has decided to cut the electricity price for January through April, from 3.94 baht/unit to 3.88 baht/unit, in response to the government’s policy to reduce the cost of living.
Forty-five out of Bangkok’s 50 districts are covered by an excessive amount of PM2.5 dust today, exceeding the 37.5 micron (µg/m³) standard level, the Air Quality information Centre of Bangkok Metropolitan Administration announced today.
Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketkeow is paying a three-day working visit to India this weekend to discuss regional issues, including the upcoming election in Myanmar and online scams, according to an informed source.
At just 22 years old, Atthaya “Jeeno” Thitikul is already rewriting the history of women’s golf. Born on February 20, 2003, and splitting her time between Bangkok and Dallas, Texas, the Thai superstar has transformed promise into dominance, and dominance into something even more rare—a legacy in real time.
“Chemsex” has been largely ignored by Thai authorities, despite studies linking it to unprotected sex and the spread of HIV.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has ordered the Songkhla provincial governor, the Songkhla Provincial Administrative Organisation (PAO) and Hat Yai’s municipal administration to complete the cleanup of the mountain of garbage in the municipal area within two weeks, following the worst flooding in the district in recent history, so people can return to their homes as soon as possible.
Volunteers and soldiers have joined residents of Hat Yai in cleaning up their houses and shops, but the tiring efforts have been hampered by a power blackout and the lack of tap water.
Police have apologised for using a small backhoe to push about ten flood-damaged cars out of the way at an intersection in Hat Yai, Songkhla to clear a path for emergency vehicles and ease traffic congestion after the disastrous flood.
Police forensic investigators and forensic pathologists from the Ministry of Public Health appear to be at loggerheads over whether it is necessary to perform an autopsy on every flood-related body brought to Songklanagarind Hospital, in addition to the legally required formal identification process.
A Chinese man has been injured in a landmine explosion, as he tried to sneak across the border from Cambodia into Thailand via Ban Nong Chan in Khok Sung district of Sa Kaeo this morning.
About 300 police officers, troops and local officials were deployed to Hat Yai’s Zone 8 yesterday, to maintain peace and to end widespread looting since the floodwaters began to recede, including the thefts from four cargo containers stranded at Hat Yai railway station.