3 Elephants perform lion dance in festive Chinese New Year celebration at a botanical park in Thailand’s Chon Buri province.
7 Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has stressed the need to implement his 20-year national strategy plan to lay foundation for the country’s development.
7 Loan shark victims get back their assets worth over Bt124 million seized from loan shark gangs in nine provinces in central Thailand.
9 Thailand launches an Electronic-Visa on Arrival (E-VOA) for passengers from 21 economies, allowing them to speedily and conveniently obtain visas.
33 The Thai Rice Exporters Association foresees Thai rice exports will fall by 1 million tons to 9.5 million tons due to baht appreciation
5 The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration plans to declare the capital the air quality control zone and will implement law to fight worsening tiny dust.
3 Schools in Bangkok will be closed on Jan 31 and Feb 1 due to excessive dust particles.
6 The Office of Industrial Economics will require automobile producers to faster meet the Euro 5 emission standard to reduce fine particulate matte
9 Bangkok governor has ordered all 437 schools under its administration to close until Friday due to the rising fine dust pollution.
6 Thailand needs to develop its anti-corruption value as corruption remains as its major problem, said an activist organization.
10 After the cremation rite of the late much-revered monk, Luang Por Koon Parisutho, all of his ashes have been scattered onto the Mekong River as he requested in his will.
5 Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said Thailand had good ties with FIFA and Bahrain and could not intervene in the case of a Bahraini footballer.
