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The Public Health Ministry has issued an eight-point order to hospitals and instructed them to prepare for a new wave of Covid-19. The preparation order was issued after a rise in the infection rate driven by cases of the new Omicron BA.4 and 5 subvariants.

The Department of Disease Control (DDC) will on Friday ask the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) to consider reducing isolation days for asymptomatic Covid patients from seven to five.

The Bank of Korea will raise its benchmark rate by 50 basis points for the first time next week, as consumer prices in June rose 6 per cent year on year, the highest level since November 1988, when they jumped 6.8 per cent year on year.

A Russian scientist who was arrested in Siberia last week on suspicion of state treason and flown to Moscow despite suffering from advanced pancreatic cancer has died, lawyers and a family member said on Sunday.

"Santa Fe'," one of Food Factor's restaurant chains, plans to expand according to the ever-changing consumer lifestyle and needs for "Santa Fe' Easy," its quick-service restaurants (QSR), with nine new branches in office areas, gas stations, and community malls by the end of 2022 with the latest branch being the PTT Rama 2 (next to Soi 48) ready to serve.

A Japanese sword belonging to a soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army was handed over to his surviving family members in Nichinan, Miyazaki Prefecture, on Saturday after being stored in a house in the United States for more than 70 years.

A group of around 100 Saudi businessmen led by the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce visited Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) on Monday to explore investment opportunities.

Covid-19 insurance claims for over 500 million baht have been made by people using falsified documents since the outbreak of the pandemic, the Thai General Insurance Association said.

Singapore’s President Halimah Yacob has tested positive for Covid-19, and is down with mild flu-like symptoms. She announced on her Facebook wall.

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has rejected a proposal to turn Khaosan Road into Thailand’s first cannabis hub.

Energy Minister Supattanapong Punmeechaow on Tuesday allayed fears of oil shortage, saying the country now has crude oil reserves for 60 to 70 days.

Three Covid-19 jabs may be enough to prevent severe symptoms from the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, a virologist said.

Nearly 80 per cent of cinema tickets for the upcoming Manchester United-Liverpool match in Bangkok has already been reserved from a total of around 30,000 seats in 47 cinemas all over the country, a cinema executive said on Monday.

Thai women’s team head coach Danai Sriwatcharamethakul spoke about how the team is preparing for Thailand’s first-ever appearance in the FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League finals.

Employees worldwide spend 81,396 hours of their lives at work, but those in the Philippines had been found to have the highest stress levels in Southeast Asia in 2021. Thailand came second on the list.

The headline inflation in June rose to 7.66 per cent year on year mainly because of rising energy prices, the Trade Policy and Strategy Office (TPSO) said on Tuesday.

Thai volleyball player Pornpun Guedpard is the "best setter" at the 2022 FIVB Volleyball Women's Nations League, according to statistics posted on a website.

Within three years of beginning his career in hospitality, Meng Sarath, 34, returned to his hometown in Ka’am Samnor village, Loeuk Dek district, Kandal province. He became interested in raising snakes, as he knew there was a demand for them in the Vietnamese market.

The government is planning to create two special committees that can come up with ways of tackling economic and energy crises as well as measures to ease people’s cost of living.

Hospitals across the nation should be prepared to deal with a new Covid-19 wave, the Rural Doctors Society (RDS) said in a Facebook post on Monday citing the Public Health Ministry’s recent announcement.

After a blaze sparked by a faulty transformer torched six shophouses in Bangkok’s Sampheng market last week, Mahidol University’s electrical engineering department has come up with guidelines to prevent a repeat.

The number of Covid-19 patients with mild or no symptoms, categorised as “green patients”, will surge 10-fold due to the easing of disease-control measures, the Department of Disease Control (DDC) reckons.

The baht opened at 35.70 to the US dollar on Tuesday, weakening from Monday’s close of 35.66. The currency is expected to move in the range of 35.60 to 35.80 during the day, Krungthai Bank market strategist Poon Panichpibool said.

Police on Monday announced they had captured a person of interest associated with a shooting that killed six people and wounded more than 36 when a man with a high-powered rifle opened fire from a rooftop at a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park.