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MK Group to delay business expansion and focus on profitable branches
MK Restaurant Group, a leading company in the restaurant business, is planning to slow down its chain expansion and other further investments to cope with the COVID-19 impact.Rit Thirakomen, the founder of MK Group, said that the restaurant business...
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Thailand discovers three new cases of coronavirus in state quarantine on Monday
Thailand’s government said on Monday that it had discovered three cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours in state quarantine.The new patients are Thai returnees from the UAE (2) and India (1). The new discoveries bring the total number...
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Rescue operations underway in Loei after flash floods and heavy rain caused by Tropical Storm Sinlaku
Thailand's Department of Disaster Mitigation and Prevention said on Monday that rescue and relief efforts were underway in the North Eastern Province of Loey after flash flooding caused by heavy rain over the weekend brought about by a tropical...
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Opinion: Breaking down Thailand’s new hand-sign protest divide
Pro-monarchy demonstrators introduced a new political hand sign last Thursday at their demonstration against the pro-democracy, student-led, anti-government rallies.Before anyone asks, the reason why I called them anti-government protesters is because most of them are asking for Prayut’s...
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Amnesty International calls on Thai government to stop intimidating and arbitrarily arresting protesters
Amnesty International has sent an open letter to Gen Maj. Chaktip Chaichinda urging the Royal Thai Police to not arbitrarily interfere with the exercise of rights and peaceful assembly on its citizens when policing assemblies in Thailand.The letter, penned...
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Anti-government student protests take place throughout country; new poll suggests that government should listen
Anti-government, student-led rallies took place across Thailand over the weekend as student groups vowed to bring down the government of General Prayut Chan-ocha and force a rewrite of a military-drafted constitution.The protests, which took place in Chiang Mai,...
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Thailand discovers five new cases of coronavirus in state quarantine
The Thai government said on Sunday that it had discovered five new cases of coronavirus in state quarantine, all Thais returning from abroad.The new cases brings the total number of Covid-19 infections to 3,317.Seven people were discharged...
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Serbian footballer in Buriram tests positive for coronavirus
A footballer from Serbia has tested positive for Covid-19, the government's emergency coronavirus centre said on Saturday.The footballer, who had flown into Thailand on a private jet before being taken to alternative state quarantine in Buriram, has tested...
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Thailand discovers two new coronavirus cases in state quarantine
Thailand's government said on Saturday that it has discovered two new coronavirus cases in state quarantine with the two non-Thai patients arriving from abroad.It has now been over two months since the last case of coronavirus in the...
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Exports contract by nearly 25 per cent with no tourist arrivals in June, says the central bank
The Thai economy has improved in June but export value still contracted by nearly 25 per cent as there have not been any foreign tourist arrivals at all, the Bank of Thailand (BOT) said on Friday. Apart from the severe...
