163 Flooding happened in 15 districts of Songkhla province and killed one. Organizations quickly offered help to victims.
65 The search for missing navy sailors of HTMS Sukhothai entered its fourth day and the search area was expanded to Surat Thani province while an undersea drone was launched to check the sunken corvette.
106 State-run Transport Co expects about 50,000 people will board inter-provincial buses per day during the New Year holiday. The traffic will rise because the situation of the two-year COVID-19 pandemic improves.
86 There was not a sign of House dissolution for an early general election but the commission was ready for any political accident, said the chairman of the Election Commission.
110 Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha opened a festival of information and communication technology inventions by Thai and Japanese students and inspected a 5G digital agricultural project in Chiang Rai province.
42 Rescue teams found seven navy sailors from the sunken HTMS Sukhothai on Tuesday but six of them died, according to the navy chief.
211 Another sailor of sunken HTMS Sukhothai was rescued and his condition was safe.
226 The cabinet approved its “2023 New Year Gifts” as proposed by the Finance Ministry and they include rebates for shoppers and reduction in property tax and transfer fees.
137 Central Pattana PCL (CPN) and the Tourism Authority of Thailand allocated a 500-million-baht budget to organize the CentralWorld Bangkok Countdown 2023 that will happen simultaneously with similar events at other shopping malls of the company.
83 Scuba divers from the Sattahip Naval Base were deployed to search for 30 sailors who went missing after HTMS Sukhothai sank in the Gulf of Thailand off Prachuap Khiri Khan province.
142 Police from the Police Cyber Task Force raided three illegal arsenals in Chiang Mai, Surin and Chon Buri provinces. They arrested four suspects and impounded 30 guns, 32,000 bullets, five luxury cars and cash worth altogether 50 million baht.
84 People were startled with about 100 gas cylinders floating on flooded roads in Kho Hong municipality in Hat Yai district while a landslide toppled about 10 power poles in another area of this southern province.
