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Thai election forces 2-weekend booze ban
BANGKOK: — No alcohol will be served to expatriates, tourists or local residents in bars and restaurants over the next two weekends nationwide due to the oncoming election.
The first dry days will be 14, 15 and 16 December, pre-election days for a few million Thais who registered to vote [...]
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The Public Health Ministry has issued a warning to tourists to beware of scrub typhus and recommended a person see a doctor if he/she developed high fever within two weeks of having visited a forest.
Dr. Prat Boonyawongvirot, permanent secretary of Public Health, said on Sunday the cooler weather [...]
Thailand agree to pay for athletes from poor countries
BANGKOK: Hosts Thailand will foot the bill for three cash-strapped countries to send teams to this week’s SEA Games, an official said yesterday.
Games organisers agreed to cover the expenses of Laos, Cambodia and East Timor, which are among the world’s poorest countries, after their hard-up Olympic [...]
B100bn wall proposed for Bangkok
source: Bkk Post
Alarmed by the prospect of global warming triggering a rise in sea levels, disaster prevention experts and a local political group called for the construction of a 100-billion-baht flood prevention wall to save the capital from being inundated.
The call was made at a seminar on climate change and its [...]
Temperatures drop on popular mountaintops
As temperatures dropped to five degrees Celsius on many mountaintops including Chiang Mai’s Doi Inthanont and the winter season’s first frost was spotted at Doi Ang Khang, visitors to the north were warned to wrap up well.
Northern weather forecaster, Pornnapa Thongthep said the high pressure system from China had extended its [...]
