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Kind Anonymous Donor And Thai Elephant Alliance Helps Unemployed Mahouts And Their Elephants Get Home To Surin And Buriram From Pattaya

11 Apr, 2021

Five elephants and their unemployed mahouts (elephant trainers) that had started walking home from Pattaya to Surin and Buriram, a destination of hundreds of kilometers, are now traveling in style – on trucks with one more elephant on their way home.

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Record-high 967 New Covid Cases Sunday

11 Apr, 2021

The government reported 967 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, the most ever recorded in a 24-hour period.

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Thailand’s Vaccination Program Lags Behind ASEAN Neighbors

11 Apr, 2021

On Saturday, Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health announced that since the vaccination program began, the country has inoculated 470,301 persons with at least one dose of a vaccine.

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Ayutthaya Cancels Songkran Festivities

11 Apr, 2021

All activities to mark the Songkran festival in this former capital city during April 13-15 have been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Governor Confident Bangkok Has Enough Beds

11 Apr, 2021

The capital has sufficient beds to cope with the recent spike in Covid-19 linked to the Thong Lor area cluster.

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Tourists Flock To Koh Chang

11 Apr, 2021

Hundreds of cars queuing to board ferry for popular island in Trat

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Nearly Half A Million Thais Have Got First Covid-19 Shot

11 Apr, 2021

More than half a million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine have been given to Thai people across the country, a government official said on Saturday.

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Closure Of Entertainment Venues In Pattaya Begins For “two Weeks”, Police Warn Restaurants Against Becoming Bars

10 Apr, 2021

A “two-week” closure of Pattaya entertainment venues (and Chonburi, and 41 other provinces) began today officially.

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One New Covid-19 Death, 789 New Cases

10 Apr, 2021

One new Covid-19 death and 789 new cases, 781 of which were local, were reported on Saturday, raising the totals to 97 deaths and 31,658 cases.

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Thailand Faces Growing Outbreak Ahead Of New Year Travel

10 Apr, 2021

Thai authorities were struggling Friday to contain a growing coronavirus outbreak just days before the country’s traditional Songkran New Year’s holiday, when millions of people travel around the country.

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Non-state Vaccines Get Nod

10 Apr, 2021

Private hospitals can procure 10m doses

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Entertainment Lockdown In 41 Provinces

10 Apr, 2021

Governors have discretion in other 36 provinces

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Covid Fear Halves Holiday Travel

10 Apr, 2021

An estimated 50,000 people poured out of Bangkok on buses to their home provinces on Friday, about half the predicted figure for the traditional Songkran rush.

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4,000 At THAI Fail Screening To Keep Jobs

10 Apr, 2021

Little option now except to retire early

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New Wave To Dampen Festival Tourism

10 Apr, 2021

TAT projects 50% decrease in receipts during Songkran

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Thai Quarantine Cut For Recipients Of 8 Vaccine Brands

09 Apr, 2021

The Foreign Ministry has added China’s Sinopharm jab to its list of vaccines whose recipients qualify for a reduced quarantine period of seven days in Thailand.

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Thailand Organizes ‘Phuket – Save The Sea Project’ Responsible Tourism Event

09 Apr, 2021

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) Phuket Office recently organized a ‘Phuket – Save the Sea Project’ responsible tourism event to promote conservation of natural marine resources among all stakeholders.

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Chiang Mai's Convention Centre Opens As A Field Hospital For Covid-19

09 Apr, 2021

Authorities in Chiang Mai have converted the international exhibition and convention centre into a field hospital, in order to deal with the increasing Covid-19 cases in the province.

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Public Places In Bangkok To Be Cleaned More Often

09 Apr, 2021

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has increased the frequency of cleaning of public places and facilities in a bid to contain the spread of Covid-19.

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Songkran Exodus From Bangkok Begins

09 Apr, 2021

People in large numbers have started to leave Bangkok for their hometowns for the Songkran holidays from April 10-15.

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Chiang Mai Closes Nightspots For 7 Days, Clamps Down On Travellers From Red-zone Provinces

09 Apr, 2021

Chiang Mai’s Committee of Communicable Diseases decided on Wednesday that everybody travelling from the five red-zone provinces, namely Bangkok, Nonthaburi, Samut Prakan, Samut Sakhon and Nakhon Pathom, must register on the CMChana application and isolate themselves for 14 days.

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Virologist Believes British Strain Of Covid-19 Brought In From Cambodia

09 Apr, 2021

Judging by the fact that the UK strain of the Covid-19 virus has affected more than 1,500 people in Cambodia since February 20, expert virologist Dr Yong Poovorawan believes it may have been brought into Thailand by people crossing the border.

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It’s Official: Bars, Parlours, Nightspots In 41 Provinces Closed For 2 Weeks

09 Apr, 2021

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) on Friday ordered the closure of entertainment venues, massage parlours and other nightspots in 41 provinces, for at least 14 days from Saturday.

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One Virus Death, 559 New Cases

09 Apr, 2021

The government on Friday reported one new Covid-19 death, bringing the toll to 96, and 559 new cases, 549 of them local infections and 10 imported, raising the total to 30,869.

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Phuket Shutters Pubs And Entertainment Venues Over New Covid Cases

09 Apr, 2021

As the Songkran holiday quickly approaches, health officials in Phuket have ordered the closure of pubs after 10 new covid-19 case emerged this week.

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25,000 People Injected With Covid-19 Vaccine This Week In Koh Samui

09 Apr, 2021

This week, 25,000 people in Koh Samui have been injected with the Covid-19 vaccine.

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Centara Names Area GM

09 Apr, 2021

Centara Hotels & Resorts announces the transfer and appointment of Wayne Duberly to the post of area general manager based at Centara Grand Mirage Beach Resort Pattaya.

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Airlines Nervous Over Songkran

09 Apr, 2021

Carriers call for strict travel restrictions

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Risky Night Venues To Shut

09 Apr, 2021

Two-week closures across 41 provinces

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Transport Ministry Issues Rules On Travel Refunds

09 Apr, 2021

The government has announced measures to help people forced to cancel journeys on public transport between April 9-18 because of the new Covid-19 outbreak.

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