Sun, January 23, 2022
Published: Jan 23, 2022
The Energy Policy and Planning Office (EPPO) has proposed cutting the fuel tax to reduce pressure on the Oil Fund.
From Monday, Bangkok restaurant customers will have an extra two hours to sit back and relax with alcoholic drinks, after authorities eased Covid-19 restrictions.
The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) on Saturday kicked off proactive Covid-19 testing in 80 communities to screen people who may be at risk of infection.
A shipment of 500 tones of broken sticky rice will leave Thailand for Chongqing in China on Wednesday via the new Laos-China railway system, Alongkorn Polabutr, adviser to the agriculture and cooperatives minister, said on Saturday.
A police sergeant has been charged after his motorcycle hit and fatally injured a doctor as she was walking across the road at a zebra crossing in Bangkok.
Most Thais are worried about a simultaneous spike of Covid-19 and PM2.5 air pollution over the busy Chinese New Year period.
German researchers have discovered why so many people who contract Covid-19 – especially the Omicron variant – also catch the influenza (flu) virus.
After the Department of Livestock Development officially put Thailand’s pork shortage and surging prices to an African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak, the authorities immediately enforced tight controls.
The Labour Ministry will start employing bubble & seal measures in construction camps to ensure there are no Covid-19 infection clusters.
People eating a variety of carp will not have to worry about getting tiny bones stuck in their throats thanks to researchers at the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences' Heilongjiang Fishery Research Institute who have cultivated the world's first crucian carp lacking intermuscular fish bones.
The Digital Economy and Society (DES) Ministry on Friday set up a working group to see if electronic cigarettes can be legalised as an alternative for smokers.
The Public Health Ministry on Saturday approved plans to administer a fourth Covid-19 jab in February to people living in 10 tourism pilot provinces.
In a Facebook post on Saturday, expert virologist Dr Yong Poovorawan said Chulalongkorn University's Centre of Excellence in Clinical Virology is seeking volunteers who have already received two AstraZeneca jabs.
The Myanmar State Administration Council- (SAC) appointed foreign ministry on January 21 described the skirmishes in Kayah state capital Loikaw 10 days earlier as an attack staged by “terrorists”.
Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad is currently in stable condition at the National Heart Institute (IJN), says his daughter Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir.
Public Health Ministry reported on Sunday (January 23) morning that in the past 24 hours there are 7,686 new patients who tested positive for Covid-19, 186 of whom are foreign travellers.
The Mint has been marking each Zodiac symbol of the Lunar calendar on a commemorative coin since 2007. This year, the collection includes six commemorative coins.
The Thailand Meteorological Department on Sunday (January 23) that the westerly trough moves from the Northeast of Thailand to cover Laos while the southerly and the southeasterly winds prevail across the lower Northeast and the East regions with less rain and isolated thundershowers in the Northeast and the East.
Published: Jan 22, 2022
China's National Health Commission on Saturday urged targeted COVID-19 response measures for people traveling home, as the country is seeing more cross-regional trips ahead of the Spring Festival.
The northwestern Chinese city of Xi'an is expected to clear all areas classified as high and medium-risk for COVID-19 on Jan. 25, provided no special circumstances arise, a government official said on Saturday.
The Russian Foreign Ministry provided article-by-article refutation on the U.S. fact sheet "Fact vs. Fiction: Russian Disinformation on Ukraine."
Greater Bangkok and northern provinces will be hit by harmful levels of PM2.5 haze next week, the Centre for Air Pollution Mitigation warned on Saturday.
Omicron will infect Thailand’s populace and boost its immunity before a vaccine for the new Covid-19 variant becomes available, a respiratory specialist said on Saturday.
Bangkok is facing an exponential increase in Omicron infections and will likely see a daily caseload of 10,000 by the month’s end “unless the threat is stopped immediately”, an academic has warned.
