Current Affairs
Opinion: The people should not have to suffer for the government’s incompetence
When I heard the news about two imported coronavirus cases from overseas, I thought of people who sacrificed everything by cooperating with the government in their fight against the pandemic.The 40 days of zero transmission in the country has...
Current Affairs
Anti-government hashtags continue to trend for second consecutive day
Anti-government hashtags continued to trend for a second successive day in Thailand as the outrage over the government mismanagement of a coronavirus scandal continued unabated.The controversy stemmed largely from the case of an Egyptian military official who was...
Covid-19
Air Force faces online criticism for its role in the Rayong coronavirus scandal
The hashtag #กองทัพอากาศอย่าเนียน (#stopbeingsubtleairforce) trended on Twitter on Tuesday as netizens expressed their disapproval of the Thai Air Force and its role in the Rayong coronavirus scandal.It is believed that the Royal Thai Air Force is the department...
Covid-19
Prime Minister says all travel bubble arrangements now on hold after Rayong scandal
The Thai government will reassess
its current guidelines to allow specific groups of foreigners to enter
Thailand, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha said after the cabinet meeting on
Tuesday.His comments came after administrative mistakes made by the Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration...
Covid-19
Government reassigns the governor of Rayong after covid foul-up; opposition MP says he is a scapegoat
The government, on Tuesday, reassigned the governor of Rayong Province Surasak Jeerasirichot to another province after a high profile foul-up which exposed people within Rayong to possible coronavirus infection.A delegation of Egyptian soldiers were allowed to enter the...
Covid-19
Thailand discovers seven more cases of coronavirus but all eyes are on Rayong
The government said on Tuesday that it had discovered an additional seven cases of coronavirus bringing the total number of infected to 3,227.There were no more deaths and one more recovery with the number of discharged now at...
Current Affairs
Anti-army and anti-government hashtags trend online after COVID-19 foul up
Several anti-government and anti-army hashtags trended on social media in the past 24 hours after government administrative errors led to a possible coronavirus cluster in Rayong and Bangkok.The hashtag #อีแดงกราบตีนคนไทย (Daeng should prostrate before the feet of the...
Current Affairs
Thai artist faces harrasment from security officials over anti-government cartoons
A Thai graffiti artist says he is now facing harassment from security officials over anti-government cartoons he has been drawing to draw attention to the missing dissident Wanchalearm Satsakit.The artist, known by his pen name Headache Stencil, said...
Current Affairs
Government and administrative foul-ups has public health officials on high alert for COVID-19 cases
Several administrative mistakes by the Thai government has public health officials on the lookout for possible signs of coronavirus in the general public despite there being no COVID cases outside of state quarantine in the previous two months.According...
