Thailand
Foreign man and Thai woman injured in motorcycle accident
A foreign man and a Thai woman were severely injured in a motorcycle accident after their Suzuki Hayabusa 1340cc collided with a songthaew in Samut Prakan, just southeast of Bangkok.
36 year old Kanokphan and 44 year old Nicholas were taken to the hospital with serious injuries. Nicholas was treated at the scene for injuries to his head, knee and shoulder before being sent to a local hospital.
The motorcyclist was travelling toward Bang Na from shopping centre Imperial World. The songthaew driver claims the motorcyclist was going around 100 kilometres per hour and hit his vehicle as he was turning on Sukhumvit 78 Soi in Samrong. A win driver who witnessed the accident told reporters that the motorcycle was in the left lane and the songthaew had made a turn into a soi from the middle lane. Police are reviewing surveillance camera footage in the area.
SOURCE: Thai Visa
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The Thai Ministry of Public Health is being praised after seemingly doing an about face over whether Bangkok’s Chatuchak Weekend Market could be the source of Covid‐19. After health officials denied that the World Health Organisation was investigating the market, a recent Facebook live press conference saw the Ministry acknowledging that wildlife trades may endanger public health.
The recent investigation by the WHO of Wuhan, the province in China where Covid19 is thought to have originated, has concluded that the virus most likely did not come from a laboratory, and instead, came from animals supplied by Chinese wildlife breeding farms, or from infected animals traded somewhere in Southeast Asia. As Chatuchak Market is arguably the region’s largest illegal wildlife trade market, a Danish virologist on the WHO investigation team pointed towards the Bangkok market as a potential source of the Covid19 virus.
Now, the Thai Ministry of Public Health is going to collaborate with the Ministry of Environment and its Department of National Parks to closely inspect Chatuchak market, and roll out a joint plan to increase wildlife protection and stop the wild animal trade in markets.
Southeast Asia has historically supplied most of China’s wildlife trade, which the virologist sees as worrisome. As commercially traded animals can carry pathogens that could compromise a human’s immune system. For example, in 2019, zebras that were legally imported into Thailand, carried a small fly species that jumped to local horses, causing African Horse Sickness. The mortality rate was over 90%, causing over 600 horse deaths.
Some animals are especially susceptible to viruses hosted by bats, such as the SARS virus. That virus jumped from a civet cat that was infected by a bat. Other viruses that are thought to have jumped from bats to other animals include rabies and Ebola. Minks and Pangolins have also been discovered to carry a coronavirus and are still being commercially traded in Southeast Asia today.
In a spotcheck carried out by Freeland, a global nonprofit organisation, Chatuchak Market is still selling ferrets, coati, civets, polecats, mongoose, raccoons, meerkats, scarlet macaws, capybara, african gray parrots, cougars, multiple species of turtles, snakes, rodents and lizards from Latin America, Africa and Australia.
SOURCE: Freeland
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Coronavirus (Covid-19)
Health officials deny WHO investigation into Bangkok’s Chatuchak market as potential origin of Covid
Health officials in Thailand are denying reports that the World Health Organisation is investigating Chatuchak market in Bangkok in ongoing efforts to establish the origin of Covid-19. The reports have surfaced in Danish media, following a WHO visit to Wuhan last month, with doubt hanging over the theory that the pandemic started in the central Chinese city.
Nation Thailand reports that the Department of Disease Control has held a press briefing in which it refutes suggestions the virus could have come from wildlife traded at Chatuchak market. The market has previously come under fire from animal welfare and wildlife protection organisations. In 2016, research by wildlife protection group Traffic pointed to the market’s ongoing illegal trade in protected bird species, while an earlier report highlighted the market’s role in the illegal trade of freshwater turtles and tortoises.
Despite several conservation experts pointing to the risks associated with the wildlife trade, Chawetsan Namwat from the DDC denies the suggestion the WHO is investigating the market for potential links to Covid-19. He says the media reports are based on evidence that the Thai horseshow bat carries another SARS virus that shares over 91% of its genetic code with the Covid-19 virus. He adds that this virus cannot be transmitted to humans, saying the DDC’s advice continues to be that humans should not consume wild animals.
“This is just an academic assumption, not absolute truth. We are constantly monitoring the animal-trading zone in Chatuchak weekend market. Even if there is no clear evidence on the origin of this virus, we still need to be vigilant and maintain strong disease-prevention measures.”
SOURCE: Nation Thailand
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Stu
Monday, February 8, 2021 at 5:29 pm
How is this news? Cmon thaiger…. With everything going on in thailand u give us a motorcycle crash?
That’s joke journalism
Julie
Monday, February 8, 2021 at 5:42 pm
I’m interested. Driving an Hayabusa is not just motorcycle crash. That’s an Hayabusa crash.
Ynwaps
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 4:19 am
Hayabusas are definitely news worthy. Hayabusa and drug busts.
Craig
Monday, February 8, 2021 at 5:50 pm
Interesting. Having been in a similar accident, all I can say is be careful here. The roads are dangerous. I remember having to swerve because a car driver in front decided to make a U turn from the left shoulder to go the other way. A typical “no look” left turn.
Tony
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 3:23 am
NO not my fault ,you not here not happen.
Craig
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 6:42 am
True. I think the foreigner is looked upon as having money and able to pay for all damages and then some.
Jesus Monroe
Monday, February 8, 2021 at 7:09 pm
Don’t mater who was in the right or wrong the farang always pays……..
Frank
Monday, February 8, 2021 at 7:18 pm
Tired of the negativity of you guys go back to your home country. Always complaining on Thais then what you do here? Is their country is the way they are you can not accept that? but you want they accept your stupid responses and stupidities on here and everywhere probably 🙂 no response needed 🙂
Fred Johnson
Monday, February 8, 2021 at 7:22 pm
NO MONEY ,NO FUNNY! RIGHT???
Toby Andrews
Monday, February 8, 2021 at 10:58 pm
Your justification is the same as a person who is served sour beer in a bar, and over charged is told if you don’t like it do leave and don’t come back!
This argument has no merit.
I note you have a fund me request. With you logic you will be funded nothing!
You love the liars and cheats, pay up and shut up!
Fuhdudu
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 6:49 am
Do not worry. Finally it is their beloved country. What happens here, good or bad, is because of them. Later we will come back home keeping an eye on their development.
Craig
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 7:03 am
Yes. Traveling somewhere and living there are 2 different things. I’ve learned this so many times but keep doing it for unknown reasons. It comes down to accepting the way things are done there no matter where “there” is. Some are better at adapting “there” than others.
LEE HAI
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 1:38 am
JM, yep in many though not all countries this is the case, outsiders especially tourists are marked as
gullable walking ATM machines, some countries have made more of an art of this than others, easy pickin’s, survival of the fittest/cleverest, and the best con wins from the top down to the bottom.
Though there are beauties, goodness, inspirations and the groove of Being alive to be discovered
in most places everywhere, Life is no Disneyland…..Walk wisely, look both ways before crossing the street, practice kindness and enjoy navigating the learning curve…..
brian mc
Monday, February 8, 2021 at 7:48 pm
“Nicholas was treated at the scene for injuries to his head, knee and shoulder”… well, at least his toes are ok.
c’mon thaiger, at least get the words to the song in the correct order.
Slugger
Monday, February 8, 2021 at 8:26 pm
Do grow up.
Jowen Yu
Monday, February 8, 2021 at 10:34 pm
It’s head and shoulders, knees and toes… thank me later 😉
Jim kelly
Monday, February 8, 2021 at 8:56 pm
AN AVERAGE OF WHAT…?? Fifty people a day dying “at the scene” of the RTA. I’m not a mathematician but 7 x 50 is 350 x 4 = 1,400 x 12 = 16,800 per year (and that doesn’t include the deaths afterwards in hospitals or life changing injuries!!)
But..hey, it’s a good way to “cull” a segment of your country’s population and keep numbers down! In the current climate, 3 or 4 people die in a pile up fueled by “Hong Thong”… sad but acceptable. BUT, 3 or 4 people die from the new flu bug and OMFG!!!! THE NATION SHUTS DOWN!!!
Ian
Monday, February 8, 2021 at 11:53 pm
Frank at least we have a country to go back to you must be from planet zog with your remarks condoning that it’s ok to drive crazy and do Uturns ECT. 2 people are seriously hurt here and if the alleged driver did do wrong he will just get a fine ,in .uk it would be prison lets hope its not you one day
Grumpy John
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 5:47 am
When I first came here I’d shout abuse and wave my fist at the moron riders and drivers here. But after a while I realised it was having no effect. Their poorly trained, if at all, and have no regard for the traffic laws even if there is a cop next to them! We Westerners need to be ever vigilant or we can become another number on the annual road toll.
Here WeGo
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 9:07 am
Now the Thai Government is going to have a field day with their reasoning for justifying the new “Big Bike” license
Paul
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 9:50 am
Any experienced motorcyclist drives like the car is the enemy and he is invisible and in Thailand anything can happen …every motorcyclist with experience knows this and won’t have this type of classic motorcylist accident ..after all the bike always pays in one way or another
Kalyanaraman Santanam
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 at 1:27 pm
is this motorcycle is for sale ? i would like to buy.