Anti-establishment Ratsadon group leader Parit “Penguin” Chiwarak and another member of the group, Nutchanon Pairote, reported to the police at the Royal Thai Police HQ in Bangkok this afternoon (Sunday), in response to arrest warrants issued by the Ta…
Day: August 8, 2021
Thailand 37th on world COVID-19 infection ranking
Thailand recorded 19,983 new COVID-19 cases and 138 more deaths today (Sunday), driving accumulated infections, since last year to 756,505 and putting the country 37th on the world ranking in terms of total infections, according to the CCSA.Bangkok log…
Pandemic-era Olympics ‘proved doubters wrong’
Britain’s Olympic chief has told AFP the staging of the Tokyo Games in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic has proved the doubters wrong while a former IOC executive claims it was a “miracle”.The first Olympics ever to be postponed took place a year …
Bangkok governor confident 70% of city’s residents will be inoculated against COVID-19 within August
Bangkok Governor Assawin Kwanmuang said today (Sunday) that he is confident that 70% of the population of the capital will have received at least one dose of vaccine by the end of this month.The governor observed the vaccination service at the Bang Kha…
Macao wraps up a three-day COVID-19 testing drive with all 614,000 tested negative
Macao wrapped up a three-day COVID-19 testing drive, with an estimated 614,000 people being tested. So far, no one has tested positive.An expert in Hong Kong, Leung Chi-Chiu, say the enclave should be closely monitored for at least two more weeks to en…