42 About 700 big trucks showed up for their trips on 4 main streets to the Energy Ministry in inner Bangkok this morning to demand the government solve the high diesel price.
25 The Office of the Insurance Commission (OIC) prohibited insurance firms from early terminating their COVID-19 insurance policies which offered lump sum compensation because that would affect insured people.
41 Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha arrived in the southern province before chairing the cabinet’s first upcountry mobile meeting this year.
87 Natural Resources and Environment Minister Varawut Silpa-archa planned to reopen the Maya Bay on Jan 1, 2022. Workers were renovating piers and officials were setting a swimming zone to create balance between tourism and conservation.
11 Protesters marched from Pathumwan intersection. One person was injured during a clash with riot police on their way to the German embassy.
86 New Zealand handed over the 2022 APEC chairmanship to Thailand as the latter declared 2022 APEC theme “Open. Connect. Balance”.
58 The government’s Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration still requires RT-PCR tests on visitors instead of replacing them with antigen tests.
25 The Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration reduced the dark-red zones of maximum and strict disease control to six provinces and set the reopening of entertainment places in January next year.
19 The Pollution Control Department together with the Federation of Thai Industries and 11 automobile manufacturers implement an auto clinic project to reduce particulate matter with the size of 2.5 micrometers and less in diameter (PM2.5).
111 Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange (KOFICE) and YG Entertainment provided a cultural complex or a creative room and a multimedia room to Non Suwan Pittayakom School in Buriram province, which Blackpink’s member ‘Lisa’ was born.
23 Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha attended a meeting of the APEC Business Advisory Council and proposed the bio-circular-green (BCG) economic model for post-COVID economic stimulation.
29 The Royal Thai Police Office proposed deliverymen wear numbered jackets to prompt them to follow traffic rules as they have been involved in many traffic accidents.
