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The pandemic's twists and turns
News, Published on 31/12/2021
» Health issues dominated the headlines in 2021. Reporter Apinya Wipatayotin revisits the top developments surrounding the Covid-19 crisis, along with other noteworthy events.
Hi-so clubbing, Covid explosion: Krystal clear
Published on 06/06/2021
» When the VVIP customers disembarked from their limousines at the Krystal Exclusive Club, young women in tiaras, angel wings and not much else sometimes greeted them.
Sending messages of hope
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 04/05/2021
» After artist Vasan Sitthiket returned to Thailand, he experienced Covid-19 lockdown.
Poor left out while rich get priority
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 26/04/2021
» As Covid-19 hits the country hard, disparities between the rich and the underprivileged become glaring.
Covid spreaders should own up
News, Editorial, Published on 25/04/2021
» If Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha thinks his national address on Friday night will restore public confidence in the government's handling of the latest wave of Covid-19 infections, he is dead wrong.
Military to set up 10 field hospitals
News, Wassana Nanuam, Published on 10/04/2021
» Ten field hospitals in Bangkok and surrounding provinces are to be set up to provide 3,000 beds to accommodate the growing number of Covid-19 patients, infected as a result of the night entertainment cluster in the capital's Thong Lor area.
Pawns in a hellish blame game
Life, Published on 02/02/2021
» Two decades ago, Sar left her bleak rural village in Myanmar's Mon State for Thailand. In those days, she was taught by her mother to do chores only. She cooked and cleaned day in and day out. Her mother did not allow her to go outside alone. She discouraged her daughter from going to the cinema with friends out of fear she would "stray from the course".
Government still plays the virus blame game
Oped, Sirinya Wattanasukchai, Published on 07/01/2021
» Almost three weeks after the first Covid infection in a Samut Sakhon seafood market was detected, the government still plays the blame game, with migrant workers as a convenient target. Am I surprised?
We need to do more
News, Postbag, Published on 21/12/2020
» The detection of 548 new cases of Covid-19 infection in one day in Samut Sakhon is truly alarming. The 548 new cases are 12% of Thailand's 4,331 cumulative diagnoses of Covid-19 since January this year. This is also the largest single outbreak of the virus in Thailand, exceeding even the army-owned Lumpinee Boxing Stadium cluster, with more cases surely to be found in Samut Sakhon in coming days.
Health Ministry wants to cut quarantine period
Gary Boyle, Published on 08/10/2020
» The Public Health Ministry has proposed that the quarantine period for tourists be reduced from 14 to 10 days and will soon ask the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) to alter the requirement accordingly.