Новости за 27.03.2021

Bangkok Bank (BBL) has become the first local bank to offer cross-border QR payments between Thailand and Vietnam. The service will help support economic recovery as Thailand opens up after the pandemic, the bank says.

The Criminal Court has thrown out a bail request for a suspected gambling den boss in the East and his alleged collaborators.

MANILA: Authorities have ordered more than 24 million people in and around Manila into lockdown next week, as hospitals in the Philippine capital struggle to cope with a surge in coronavirus infections.

A Ratchaburi woman in an at-risk group linked to the Bang Kae cluster in Bangkok has tested positive for Covid-19 eight days after getting her first vaccine shot.

Myanmar’s security forces shot and killed at least 64 people — including a young boy — on Saturday, news reports and witnesses said, even as the ruling junta’s leader said the military would protect the people and strive for democracy.

KANCHANABURI: Another 14 Myanmar nationals have been caught for illegally sneaking into the country in Sangkhla Buri district on Saturday.

A disagreement between China and the Philippines over the presence of 200-plus Chinese vessels at a disputed South China Sea reef has sparked concerns that Beijing is upping efforts to control the contested waters.

CAIRO: Attempts to refloat a megaship blocking the Suez Canal will resume with the next high tide around 2pm local time (7pm Thailand time) on Saturday, salvage experts say.

A man who bought a pickup truck at an auction found 20 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine hidden inside and immediately returned it to the auction agency in Bang Na district of Bangkok, police said on Saturday.

One more Covid-19 death was reported, along with 80 new cases — 73 local and seven imported — bringing the totals to 93 fatalities and 28,657 cases.

A total of 19 MPs from various political parties are currently being investigated for serious misconduct over alleged public land encroachment, according to the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC).

Foreign tourists who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 will be allowed to visit six tourism provinces beginning next month.

NEW YORK: WeWork announced on Friday it plans to enter public markets through a merger transaction that raises $1.3 billion, valuing the office-sharing firm at a fraction of the sum discussed in its unsuccessful pre-pandemic effort to go public.

Suphanburi and Sukhothai face off to avoid the drop on the final day of the Thai League 1 season on Sunday.

Bangkok's famous Chatuchak weekend market will be open six days a week starting mid-April in an effort to boost the income of vendors affected by Covid-19.

Three key economic stimulus packages -- the co-payment subsidy scheme, the We Win financial aid programme and the Section 33 We Love Each Other programme -- are estimated to have pumped at least 250 billion baht in monetary circulation as of March 25 this year.

The Health Service Support Department on Fridaylodged a complaint against a privately run hospital for allegedly delaying emergency care for a woman who later died from respiratory failure.

Tourism and Thailand's economy may be slow to recover, even with a comprehensive vaccine rollout, as transmission risks remain among vaccinated people and reopening does not necessarily mean a full return of foreign tourists, the World Bank says.

Nine years ago, Amaraphon Ong-at-itthichai, a 59-year-old senior nurse working at the Friendship Therapy Centre of Panyananthaphikkhu Chonprathan Medical Centre in Nonthaburi's Pak Kret district, wondered why many near-recuperated patients became unhappy at the prospect of being discharged from the hospital.

On March 8, at the Alliance Française in Bangkok (The French cultural institute), supermodel and UN Women Regional Goodwill Ambassador Sirinya "Cindy" Bishop addressed a seminar leading to the Generation Equality Forum held on the occasion of International Women's Day. She repeated to the young Thai women in the audience that "Women don't need to be stronger. It is the world that needs to change...

Today is a national holiday in Myanmar called Armed Forces Day. It is intended to honour that country's military and, as such, it is a fitting time to reflect on what exactly is worth celebrating.

As the charter amendment bill was shot down in parliament earlier this month, it is apparent that the process -- a crucial factor for national reconciliation -- will not be completed during the tenure of the Prayut Chan-o-cha government. The failure of the amendment push came as no surprise as it was the aspiration of Meechai Ruchupan, the head of the charter drafting committee, to make changes an...

When a regional grouping or cooperation framework marks its anniversary, it's typical that respective members, through the government or the Foreign Affairs Ministry, send a congratulatory note.

SET-listed Absolute Clean Energy (ACE), a biomass power plant developer, plans 14 billion baht in capital spending to increase its power generation capacity to 449 megawatts by next year as it continues to expand business in the hope of reaching its goal of 1 gigawatt.

The global economic picture in the first quarter has been as we expected. In terms of year-on-year growth, the economy is moving up steadily since bottoming out in the second quarter of 2020, when countries around the world started locking down to fend off the coronavirus.