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Elephant Found Collapsed Last Week Now Happy, Healthy In Forest

12 Mar, 2021

Forest officials were relieved to find the wild elephant they had helped revive last week is healthy and leading its life normally in the Chachoengsao Khao Ang Rue Nai Wildlife Sanctuary.

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SCB Lifts Thai GDP Forecast To 2.6% This Year

12 Mar, 2021

Siam Commercial Bank’s Economic Intelligence Centre (IEC) has revised upwards its 2021 Thai GDP growth forecast from 2.2 per cent to 2.6 per cent.

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Bangkok Art Biennale 2020 Exceeded Expectations Amid Covid-19, Political Challenges: Artistic Director

12 Mar, 2021

The Bangkok Art Biennale 2020 festival, or BAB2020, was more successful than expected despite the Covid-19 crisis gripping the world and the political conflict in Thailand last year, Apinan Poshyananda, the artistic director of the event, told the media on Wednesday.

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Saraburi Sanctuary Replenishes Water Reserves For Wild Animals To Cope With Heat

12 Mar, 2021

Officials of Kaeng Khoi Wildlife Sanctuary in Champhakphaew subdistrict in Saraburi province have refilled water in cement ponds that they had constructed around the forest areas to make sure that wild animals have enough drinking water as the hot summer is approaching.

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Airtime: Flight Simulators Keep Pilots Sharp During Pandemic

12 Mar, 2021

The coronavirus crisis has clipped the wings of airline pilots but those who have kept their jobs are doing what they can to stay sharp -- using flight simulators when they are not in the few planes in the air.

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Cabinet Ministers Postpone Covid-19 Inoculations

12 Mar, 2021

Cabinet ministers abruptly postponed their Covid-19 inoculations planned for Friday after several European countries suspended use of the AstraZeneca vaccine on reports of adverse reactions in some patients.

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Moderna To Apply For Vaccine Approval This Month

12 Mar, 2021

Moderna will submit its application for approval for its Covid-19 vaccine this month, a health official said on Thursday, as the country gets ready for its mass vaccination drive.

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Phuket Could Be Open Again To Mass Foreign Tourism By July 1st Says Tourism Minister Phiphat

11 Mar, 2021

Minister of Tourism and Sports Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn has said it will take 900,000 doses to vaccinate 70% of the population of Phuket to allow foreign tourists unfettered access by July 1st.

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Songkran Holiday Extended To Six Days

11 Mar, 2021

The Songkran holiday will be extended to six days this year, after the Cabinet has approved a special holiday on April 12.

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Tourism Eyes Chinese

11 Mar, 2021

Beijing easing could allow travel bubble

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Test Run Of Red Line Delayed 4 Months

11 Mar, 2021

Train services from Hua Lamphong to be cut

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Phuket Officials Target Island Mass Vaccination By Oct 1

11 Mar, 2021

Phuket officials will file a request to receive enough doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to ensure that 432,000 people in Phuket have been vaccinated for COVID-19 by Oct 1.

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Pattaya Jomtien 2nd Road Drainage Project To Wrap In April

11 Mar, 2021

Work to lay new drainage pipes under Jomtien Second Road between Rompho Market and the Dongtan Curve is on scheduled and should be finished next month.

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Raised Speed Limit Of 120 Km/hr Now In Effect

11 Mar, 2021

The Royal Gazette website on Wednesday published a transport ministerial regulation raising the speed limit on four lane highways or more from a maximum 90 km/hour to 120 km/hour.

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Possibility Of Reopening Thailand On Oct 1 To Be Considered

11 Mar, 2021

If vaccination drives in other countries continue easing the pandemic situation, then Thailand should be fully reopened within this year.

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Cabinet Won't Extend Tour Scheme

10 Mar, 2021

Tourism bodies to redesign campaigns

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Centara Grand Hua Hin Appoints Hotel Manager

10 Mar, 2021

Centara Hotels & Resorts Thailand’s leading hotel operator, recently promoted Jan Weisheit to the position of hotel manager at Centara Grand Beach Resort & Villas Hua Hin.

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Minor Names Area GM

10 Mar, 2021

Minor Hotels has appointed Mark O’Sullivan as area general manager Bangkok.

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Thailand’s Chiang Mai Has Once Again The Worst Air Quality In The World

10 Mar, 2021

Thailand’s northern province of Chiang Mai was reported to have the worst air quality on the planet due to brush fires and agricultural burning.

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Area Quarantine To Be Discussed By Tourism Minister And Operators In Phuket On Wednesday

10 Mar, 2021

Thailand’s Tourism and Sports Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn is scheduled to meet with representatives of hotels and other tourism-related businesses on Thailand’s famous resort island of Phuket on Wednesday, to discuss the proposed “area quarantine” concept for foreign travelers and tourists.

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Tiger Park Set For Permanent Closure

10 Mar, 2021

The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) is to withdraw the operating licence of Mukda Suan Sua (Mukda Tiger Park & Farm)

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Tourist Spots To Get Extra Shots

10 Mar, 2021

Water splashing may get nod at Songkran

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Songkran Water Splashing Likely To Be Allowed

09 Mar, 2021

Water splashing will probably be allowed during the Songkran festival next month, Culture Minister Itthiphol Kunplome said on Tuesday.

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Navy Ship's Anchor Causes Blackout On Samui, Phangan

09 Mar, 2021

An anchor dropped by a navy ship damaged an underwater cable supplying power to Koh Samui and Koh Phangan on Monday, causing a widespread blackout.

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Thai COVID ‘passports’ Coming Next Month For The Vaccinated

09 Mar, 2021

Thailand is putting the cart before the horse with plans to issue travel papers to those vaccinated for COVID-19 as soon as next month.

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Reopening Hinges On Jab Strategies

09 Mar, 2021

Two million foreign arrivals expected

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Airline Layoffs Ahead As Travel Stalls

09 Mar, 2021

No earnings, slow recovery ahead

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AstraZeneca Vaccination To Launch March 11 With Jab For Prayut

08 Mar, 2021

The Department of Disease Control (DDC) will release Thailand’s first batch of AstraZeneca vaccine for use in the next two to three days, Public Health Anutin Charnvirakul said on Monday.

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Vaccine Passports Approved To Cut Quarantine Time In Thailand

08 Mar, 2021

The National Committee on Communicable Diseases has approved the use of vaccine passports in Thailand, Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul announced on Monday.

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Shorter Quarantine Likely For Vaccinated Arrivals

08 Mar, 2021

CCSA to consider proposal on Monday

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