
Auction of Tusk Pair to Start at B25m
The Chang Thongkhum elephant conservation center will put a pair of elephant tusks up for online auction with the starting price of 25 million baht.
The Chang Thongkhum elephant conservation center will put a pair of elephant tusks up for online auction with the starting price of 25 million baht.
About 1,000 Myanmar people fled a clash between Myanmar soldiers and ethnic troops on their homeland and crossed the Moei River to take shelter in Mae Sot district.
The northern province may have Omicron infection as a household was in close contact with an Omicron case.
The commissioner of the Provincial Police Region 7 and the governor of the Nakhon Pathom Central Prison announced the closure of the jailbreak case which involved nine inmates while an investigation went on for their saw blade hidden in a lotion bottle.
Officials put unrest under control at the Ban Mae La camp of Myanmar refugees in Tha Song Yang district and found great damage to government properties while refugees demanded eased COVID-19 control measures and the replacement of an assistant district chief who was the camp chief.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has listed the “Nora” dance of Thailand as Intangible Cultural Heritage, according to the Thai embassy in Paris.
A female Thai student was assaulted, molested and robbed at a subway station in New York. A complaint was filed about a month ago but there was no progress in police investigation.
Prime Minister and Defense Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha is visiting Yala and Pattani provinces to follow up on the implementation progress of the Government’s policies on socio-economic and security development there, according to Government Spokesperson Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana.
Officials were deployed to secure order at a Myanmar refugee camp in Ban Mae La village of Tha Song Yang district after about 1,000 refugees caused a riot to protest against face mask requirement.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha ordered Deputy Prime Minister Supattanapong Punmeechaow to find facts about an industrial estate project in Chana district of Songkhla while the government waited for the strategic environmental assessment (SEA) of the project.
Thailand’s fragrant rice known as Hom Mali is the champion in the World’s Best Rice Award for the second consecutive year as the commerce minister expects Thailand to export 6 million tons of rice this year.
Thailand’s economic activity has subsequently rebounded and is expected to grow by 1.0 percent this year after being severely hit by a surge of COVID-19 cases in the third quarter of 2021, according to the World Bank’s latest Thailand Economic Monitor “Living with COVID in a Digital World” published today.