"ban"

Newly appointed Digital Economy and Society (DES) Minister Chaiwut Thanakmanusorn said on Friday that he will continue with his predecessor’s policies.

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) on Friday said that no water-splashing activities or wet parties would be allowed during the Songkran festival next month to avoid Covid-19 transmission.

Short-video sharing platform TikTok on Wednesday said it would scale down the size of its workforce constituting over 2,000 employees in the country.

The government’s order banning the drinking of alcoholic beverages at restaurants and other entertainment venues since January 4 in a bid to curb the spread of Covid-19 is estimated to affect more than 1 million entrepreneurs and employees and cost the industry Bt9 billion, said Thanakorn Kuptajit, secretary-general of the Thai Alcohol Beverage Business Association (TABBA).

The government on Wednesday banned all gatherings in Covid-hit areas, except for household parties and government activities.

The Royal Thai Police and Public Health Ministry held a press conference on Friday to announce the enforcement of a new law that prohibits the sale or advertisement of alcoholic beverages via digital channels.

Angry Thai netizens are calling for a boycott of Thai stars and idols who have stayed silent about the pro-democracy movement.

LOS ANGELES -- Video-sharing social networking platform TikTok on Saturday voiced hope that an agreement reached by its Chinese parent company ByteDance with Oracle and Walmart will "resolve the security concerns of the US administration and settle questions around TikTok's future in the US"

Alcohol sales via electronic channels will be prohibited, the Royal Gazette announced on its website yesterday (September 8).

BEIJING - China is deeply concerned about and firmly opposes India's ban on 118 Chinese mobile apps, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Thursday.

Farmers of economic crops have backed a move by Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Chalermchai Srion to reconsider the ban on paraquat and chlorpyrifos.