50 The National Elderly Council supported 5,500 elderly occupational loans with total 165 million baht.
245 Rayong governor has ordered furnace dust to be transported back to the smelting plant, where the authorities detected traces of Caesium-137 in metal dust in Prachinburi to allay local residents’ concerns over the contamination.
123 Health checks conducted on 70 employees at a metal foundry found no one was affected or fell sick from radiation exposure after the furnace dust contaminated with Caesium -137 had been discovered there, according to a senior health official.
320 His Majesty King Maha Vajiralongkorn endorsed a decree to dissolve parliament, paving the way for elections.
292 Three factories, producing counterfeit Thai jasmine (Hom Mali) rice in China were shut down as Thai authories will intensify public relations campaing to promote Thai jasmine rice certificate mark on the package of Thai genuine jasmine rice among Chinese consumers.
202 The Oil Fuel Fund Office (OFFO) has announced another decrease in its price cap on diesel by 0.50 bhat per litre effective on March 24 to help reduce the cost of living.
331 Authorities are working to prevent a leak from an oil storage vessel in the Gulf of Thailand following an accident during the maintenance earlier this week.
182 A joint operation of Seaport Interdiction Task Force (SITF) seized 18 kg of heroin, destined for Australia during an inspection at a private firm.
172 The disgruntled police inspector has been detained and taken to hospital after more than 24-hour standoff in a housing estate in Bangkok’s Sai Mai district.
170 Authorities are searching for a cylinder containing dangerous radioactive material that went missing from a power plant in Prachinburi.
143 The former chief and colleagues of the agitated police inspector are trying to convince him to come out of his house but to no avail after he refused to be taken to hospital for mental illness treatment and started firing multiple shots in residential area in Sai Mai district.
206 The Royal Thai navy ordered a luxury resort on a hilltop overlooking the sea in Chon Buri to stop operation and to be demolished after an inspection found it encroached on the state land under the care of the navy and was illegally built
