
Nora Dance Becomes World’s Cultural Heritage
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.
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.
The Public Health Ministry expects the country to record more Omicron cases in the middle of January.
A training helicopter of the army crashed in front of the Jiraprawat military camp at about 9.30am. It burst into flame and an aviation instructor and his student were killed instantly.
The State Railway of Thailand said it resumed train service through Pattani after a bombing of a commuter train in the southern border province on Monday afternoon.
The leaders of anti-industrial estate protesters from Songkhla province vowed to stay at Government House to wait for responses from the cabinet on Dec 14 on the industrial estate project in Chana district of the southern province.
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said the election of the new Bangkok governor should be organized in the middle of next year.