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PM rules out immediate lockdown
News, Post Reporters, Published on 03/12/2021
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has insisted Thailand will not reimpose an immediate national lockdown despite concerns over the new coronavirus variant Omicron.
Govt seeks out African visitors
News, Post Reporters, Published on 02/12/2021
» The Immigration Bureau and the Ministry of Public Health are tracking down about 783 African travellers who have entered Thailand since Nov 15.
Delay risk to eased tests
News, Mongkol Bangprapa and Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 30/11/2021
» The plan to allow international travellers to take an antigen test (ATK) instead of an RT-PCR test to enter the country might be put on hold over concerns surrounding the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19.
Travel ban is right move
News, Editorial, Published on 29/11/2021
» The government's decision to ban travel to Thailand by people from eight southern African countries where a new Covid-19 strain was found is the right move but many more things are needed to prevent the country from being hit by the new and dangerous variant.
Travel ban on 8 nations tied to new variant
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 28/11/2021
» Thailand will ban travellers from eight southern African countries where a new Covid-19 strain was found.
New Covid alarm sounds
News, Bangkok Post and agencies, Published on 27/11/2021
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has warned Thais to avoid travelling to countries where a new Covid-19 variant first detected in South Africa has been found.
FAO gets funding for Thai project
News, Post Reporters, Published on 21/06/2021
» Thailand and seven other countries are set to be beneficiaries of new United Nations-led projects designed to support climate resilience and protect biodiversity.
Don't worry, be happy … like the Finns
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 28/03/2021
» For the second year running Thailand was ranked 54th in the UN-sponsored World Happiness Report which covers 149 countries. It seems that although we have not quite descended into the depths of Les Miserables, Thai people are not exactly dancing in the streets with joy either. However, considering the Covid situation, one suspects there's not one country in the world that is particularly happy.
Tackle entrenched inequalities to end epidemics
News, Winnie Byanyima, Published on 07/07/2020
» Like the HIV epidemic before it, Covid-19 is exploiting the extreme inequalities between countries and within them among disadvantaged and vulnerable communities. I am proud that decades of experience in responding to HIV are being used in the fight against the coronavirus and that activists all over the world are working hard to make sure that the disruption to HIV services is minimised.
Fifty foreigners nabbed
News, Post Reporters, Published on 17/06/2018
» Fifty foreign nationals were arrested for overstaying their visas and other offences in the latest of a series of coordinated police raids on 87 locations across the country early yesterday.