The hungry have taken the place of tourists in line at Bali Hai Pier. Holiday boats have been replaced by aid trucks filled with donated food as Pattaya crawls on its collective hands and knees through the crushing coronavirus third wave.

There were record highs of 212 more Covid-19 fatalities and 21,838 new cases over the past 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry reported on Saturday morning.

Food supplies at markets and supermarkets are reducing amid partial closures and subsequent reduced production capacity at almost 100 food processing plants nationwide

Chiang Mai’s elephants were handed a lifeline on Thursday after going hungry for months due to a lack of tourist income during the pandemic.

Durian saw the biggest jump in exports, at 58.24% year on year, followed by longan at 51.43%, mango at 50.09% and bananas at 18.59%.

Injunction order notes that government already has lots of other legal tools to fight fake news

Prior to the pandemic, the Thai baht was the strongest currency performer in Asia. It is now the worst, after a third wave of virus infections has quashed all hopes of a quick revival because of the loss of international tourist dollars.

The Ministry of Public Health says provincial hospitals are taking care of almost 100,000 Covid-19 patients transferred from Bangkok.

There were record highs of 191 more Covid-19 fatalities and 21,379 new cases over the past 24 hours

Satun governor Ekarat Leesen on Thursday announced a lockdown on Koh Lipe after 32 new Covid-19 infections were found on the island during testing with rapid antigen kits.

The readily transmissible COVID-19 Delta variant, which was first confirmed in Thailand in mid-May in a Thai mother and her 4-year son arriving from Pakistan, has now spread through 74 of Thailand’s 77 provinces, accounting for 78.2% of new infections in the country.

The Phuket Provincial Public Health Office (PPHO) marked a record 65 new local COVID-19 infections on the island yesterday (Aug 4)

KYOI Group, a lifestyle investment platform, launched its first portfolio resort to Samui Island, Thailand, to investors in Hong Kong.

Thailand’s six key media organisations held an online seminar on Wednesday under the topic “Are chilling effects from Emergency Decree any real?” aiming to criticise the government for “controlling people’s freedom of speech under the authority of the Emergency Decree”.

Both the Phuket Sandbox and Samui Plus programmes are going ahead as usual, and the reopening of Krabi and Phang Nga to fully vaccinated international tourists is set to start later this month, the Tourism Authority of Thailand reported on Tuesday.