TRAT: About 10,000 tourists remain on Koh Chang as authorities there prepare for a flood of arrivals from the shut down beaches and bars around Pattaya, after their call for the province to be locked down against Covid-19 was rejected. Saksit Mungkang, secretary-general to the Trat provincial tourism industry council, said on Thursday the atmosphere […]
Yala authorities are hard-put trying to convince local Muslim leaders of the need to obey the Chularatchamontri’s order suspending Friday prayers at all mosques, amid worries that mass gatherings spread the coronavirus disease. Provincial governor Chaiyasit Panitpong has meanwhile called on residents to contact health personnel if they suspect people in their neighbourhood are infected […]
Three southern provinces of Phuket, Yala and Narathiwat have been placed on lockdown in a bid to curb the coronavirus pandemic. Land traffic in an out of these provinces are banned while Phuket airport will be closed starting April 10. The lockdown will take effect till the end of April. Starting midnight today, the only […]
SATUN (NNT) – National parks around the country have been closed in an effort to limit the spread of COVID-19. Lipe island in Satun has become the latest to close its doors to visitors, suspending all tourism activities. Satun Provincial Communicable Diseases Committee has ordered all tourism activities and tourist accommodation on Lipe Island to […]
NARATHIWAT (NNT) – The emergency operations center, in the border district of Su-Ngai Kolok in Narathiwat Province, is working with the Immigration Department Of Malaysia to block Thai workers from crossing the border in either direction, as both countries are scrambling to contain the spread of COVID-19. At the time of this report, Malaysia has […]
BANGKOK, March 23 (TNA) — Police seriously closed the border with Malaysia and Myanmar adjacent to five southern provinces to contain the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Pol Col Kritsana Pattanacharoen, deputy spokesman of the Royal Thai Police, said that from 12am on March 23 immigration police closed southern border crossings in Songkhla, Satun, Yala, Narathiwat, […]
NARATHIWAT: Two rangers were hurt in a bomb blast as their team returned from taking part in a cleanup at a mosque to combat the spread of the coronavirus in Rangae district on Friday evening. The explosion occurred on a local road in Lamai village of tambon Bo-ngo on Friday evening, said Pol Lt Col […]
ALA, March 17 (TNA) – Many people have been injured in a car bomb at the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre (SBPAC) in Yala. One of the people, wounded in the bombing is a camera of Thai New Agency. The first small bomb occurred while a meeting was being held there on the screening processes […]
