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TAT working on details of extended Songkran celebrations

February 8, 2024
by Marisa Chimprabha (World)
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The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) will hold meetings next week with the Culture and Interior ministries, the private sector and other relevant agencies to discuss details of this year’s…

File photo : This photo taken on December 13, 2023 shows a member of ethnic minority armed group Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) standing guard at a hill camp seized from Myanmar’s military in Namhsan Township in Myanmar’s northern Shan State.//AFP

Myanmar junta extends state of emergency by 6 months: statement

January 31, 2024
by Marisa Chimprabha (World)
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Myanmar’s National Defence and Security Council agreed on Wednesday to extend a state of emergency by six months, the junta said, again delaying elections the military has promised to hold. …

A man crosses the road on Ratchaprasong intersection in Bangkok on July 12, 2021, on the first day of stricter lockdown restrictions to try to contain the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus. Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP

Semi-lockdown extended, now covers 29 provinces instead of 13

August 1, 2021
by Mintra Adair
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The Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has decided to extend current semi-lockdown restrictions, due to expire on Monday, for two more weeks and to expand the COVID-19 “Dark Red”…

State of Emergency to be extended for two more months to control COVID-19

May 21, 2021
by Nad Bunnag
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It may take two more months to bring the current COVID-19 wave under control, according to Thailand’s Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) and Public Health Ministry. A CCSA meeting…

House Speaker’s advisor says censure debate may end by midnight tonight

February 19, 2021
by Nad Bunnag
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The four-day censure debate in the Thai parliament is unlikely to be completed by midnight tonight (Friday), as had earlier been agreed between government and opposition parties, and it may…

FILE PHOTO: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe declares state of emergency during a meeting of the new coronavirus task force at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo, Japan, April 7, 2020. Franck Robichon/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Japan’s PM expected to extend state of emergency until end-May

May 4, 2020
by Nad Bunnag
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is set to extend the country’s state of emergency on Monday until the end of May, public broadcaster NHK said. The government…

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