Crime, Courts, Calamity

BANGKOK — The Bangkok City Hall appears to have ended its controversial policy of omitting the mention of convenience stores owned by an influential conglomerate in its travel history of coronavirus patients.

BANGKOK — Thailand’s Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday said it received requests from two international pharmaceuticals to approve their coronavirus vaccines for use in the kingdom.

BANGKOK — Health minister Anutin Charnvirakul on Monday doubled down on his threat to ban coronavirus patients who broke the law from receiving free medical treatment, despite its potential breach of the Thai Constitution.

CHIANG MAI — A local government office in Chiang Mai province took steps to ban donations, then reversed the controversial order two days later, after a YouTuber released a video publicizing poverty at a far-flung village.

CHIANG MAI — No cash handouts will be given to tourists who contracted the coronavirus while visiting the northern province as promised earlier, a tourism business guild said Monday.

BANGKOK — Efforts by health workers to set up field hospitals for coronavirus patients are being met with opposition from some local communities, complicating Thailand’s long term strategy to grapple with the outbreak.

It always plays out like a clockwork, a movement rehearsed as well as any police parade.

BANGKOK — Residents in Thailand will be able to sign up for the first round of vaccination against coronavirus at the end of January, the government announced Friday.

BANGKOK — Foreign tourists willing to brave the global pandemic and spend a vacation in Thailand are still welcomed, as long as they have all the required documents, a chief tourism official said Friday.

SAMUT SAKHON — An innovative songtaew bus in the epicenter of the second wave of outbreak is taking steps to transport its passengers in a safer way.