No Refunds For Year-End Trips Under Travel Subsidy Program
BANGKOK — No refunds will be available for travellers who booked their New Year vacations under the popular travel subsidy program “We Travel Together,” the tourism minister said Thursday.
Hundreds of Japanese Still Contesting Trump’s Election Defeat
TOKYO (Kyodo) — Less than a month before the swearing-in ceremony in Washington for U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, hundreds of Japanese, including adherents of the QAnon conspiracy theory, are taking to the streets in support of President Donald Trump's claim that he won election.
Pope on COVID-19 Vaccine: Needy, Vulnerable Must Come First
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis made a Christmas Day plea for authorities to make COVID-19 vaccines available to all, insisting that the first in line should be the most vulnerable and needy, regardless of who holds the patents for the shots.
Expat Says Bank Denied Him Entry ‘Due to COVID-19’
BANGKOK — A foreign resident on Wednesday said he was turned away by employees at a bank in downtown Bangkok who allegedly cited coronavirus measures and his ethnicity as the reason.
Yearender: Tourism Struggles to Find Way Out in Renewed Outbreak
BANGKOK (Xinhua) — Five-star hotels in Bangkok, Thailand have dimmed their lights for more than half a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic that forced the country to shut its doors to foreign tourists since April.
With a Video Filmed in Secret, Trump Keeps Sowing Chaos
WASHINGTON (AP) — The video message that plunged Washington into chaos was filmed in secret.
A Season of Fear, Not Cheer, as Virus Changes Christmas
Montserrat Parello lost her husband eight years ago, and Christmas gatherings with children and grandchildren had helped her deal with her loneliness. But this year, the 83-year-old will be alone for the holiday at her home in Barcelona, due to the risk of infection from the coronavirus.
Cops to Charge Employer Who Dumped Migrant Workers
SAMUT PRAKAN — Police on Wednesday said they are gathering evidence to press charges against individuals who drove a group of migrant workers from Samut Sakhon and left them on the roadside outside Bangkok.
Watchdog Alarmed to See Healthy & Infected Migrant Workers Locked in Together
BANGKOK — Labor rights activists on Wednesday urged the government to rethink its policy of putting hundreds of migrant workers in the same residential buildings without segregating those who caught the virus from those who did not.
Gov’t Virus Tally Now Excludes Figures From Samut Sakhon
BANGKOK — The government’s pandemic response center on Wednesday appeared to adopt a new policy of leaving out numbers of new coronavirus cases in Samut Sakhon in today’s news briefing.
