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  • Covid-19 NewsThailand’s GDP to contract up to 5% for 2020 – business thinktank
    ThaigerPublished: 10:58, 10 May 2020
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    Thailand’s GDP to contract up to 5% for 2020 – business thinktank

    Thailand’s GDP is expected to contract between 3-5% for 2020, and exports by up to 10%. The predictions from Suphan Mongkolsuthee, president of the Federation of Thai Industries and chairman of the private sector joint committee. He also believes that the Thai economy has probably reached its ‘low point’ and will start recovering from now. He said that, as the…

  • Covid-19 News2 more Covid-19 patients discharged from hospital in Banglamung, Chon Buri
    AnukulPublished: 13:06, 04 May 2020
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    2 more Covid-19 patients discharged from hospital in Banglamung, Chon Buri

    Banglamung district has reported that they have had no new cases of Covid-19 since April 19. Pattaya (which is in Banglamung district) will reach a 3 week milestone tomorrow without any new cases. Today 2 patients were discharged from hospital, leaving 5 patients remaining in hospital for treatment relating to Covid-19. A total of 87 cases have been reported in…

  • Covid-19 News97 year old Phuket woman recovers from Covid-19
    Maya TaylorPublished: 13:36, 27 April 2020
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    97 year old Phuket woman recovers from Covid-19

    And now for the good news … A 97 year old “granny” from Bang Tao, Phuket, has been discharged from hospital, having recovered from the Covid-19 virus. The news was shared on social media by Nattapon Chueasaman who credited excellent medical care coupled with the elderly lady’s will to add some more digits to her great age. Bang Tao and…

  • Covid-19 NewsBaby becomes youngest Covid-19 patient to recover in Thailand
    ThaigerPublished: 11:35, 23 April 2020
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    Baby becomes youngest Covid-19 patient to recover in Thailand

    As of 10.45am today, Thailand has a reported 2,826 Covid-19 cases. 2,352, or 83% of those have recovered and been discharged from hospital. Today we can add one more to that list – a 1 month old boy has become Thailand’s youngest coronavirus patient to successfully make a full recovery from Covid-19, after a team of medics used of a…

  • Covid-19 NewsBoxing fans preparing to donate blood plasma to help others with their recovery
    AnukulPublished: 20:14, 07 April 2020
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    Boxing fans preparing to donate blood plasma to help others with their recovery

    Today, boxing fans who has fully recovered from the Covid-19 virus has announced that they are planning to donate their blood plasma to help doctor and medical officials study on ways to help others. With the donation fans are hoping that it could help with the recovery of other patients and hopefully, find a cure for the pandemic. A ring…

  • Covid-19 NewsCovid-19 UPDATE: Europe and US cases soar, China reports 0 new cases today.
    ThaigerPublished: 08:13, 18 March 2020
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    Covid-19 UPDATE: Europe and US cases soar, China reports 0 new cases today.

    Welcome to Wednesday as we wade through the day’s main Covid-19 coronavirus headlines. Today the number of infected patients will push through 200,000, currently sitting at 198,214 as of 7am this morning, Thai time. 7,965 people have succumbed to the disease. 81,734 people have recovered across the world. In the past 24 hours Italy, Iran, Spain, France, the US and…

  • Covid-19 NewsWorld travel suffers as coronavirus outbreak drags on
    ThaigerPublished: 10:24, 18 February 2020
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    World travel suffers as coronavirus outbreak drags on

    The Public Health Ministry is asking Thais planning trips to Japan and Singapore to reschedule their visits, saying that travellers need to be aware of the rising number of people infected by the coronavirus (Covid-19) in those two countries. Dr Sukhum Kanchanapima, the permanent secretary at the Thai Public Health Ministry, says the coronavirus outbreak had reached the third stage…

  • Covid-19 NewsCoronavirus UPDATE: Thursday afternoon, 1,200+ patients now fully recovered
    ThaigerPublished: 15:13, 06 February 2020
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    Coronavirus UPDATE: Thursday afternoon, 1,200+ patients now fully recovered

    As of Thursday afternoon, World Health Organisation officials have raised the death toll to 565, with a total of 28,299 cases identified around the world. The number of full recoveries now exceeds 1,200 and rising fast as many of the earlier cases progress to full recovery. Below we’ve catalogued a lot of the latest news from around the world from…

  • Phuket NewsNew eyesight for the Thaiger – modern lens exchange surgery in Thailand
    Tim NewtonPublished: 16:23, 10 November 2019
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    New eyesight for the Thaiger – modern lens exchange surgery in Thailand

    Tim Newton is the lead writer and editor of The Thaiger English. Healthy, happy, busy and no feeling that I’m actually 61 years old. But there I was, about to undergo eye surgery that would rid me of my annoying reading glasses and give me an equivalent of the vision I had when I was a lot younger. Luckily there…

  • Environment NewsDrones used to find two elephants stuck in the Haew Narok ravine
    ThaigerPublished: 17:42, 06 October 2019
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    Drones used to find two elephants stuck in the Haew Narok ravine

    Park officials have have been using drones to find two wild elephants, who climbed out of the ravine at Haew Narok waterfall in Khao Yai national park, north of Nakhon Nayok, north-east of Bangkok. But it took the delivery of a truckload of bananas for the elephants to eat and regain their strength. Six elephants, including a baby elephant, fell…

  • Bangkok NewsRepresentative of HM King and Queen visits Bangkok bomb blast patients
    ThaigerPublished: 12:45, 04 August 2019
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    Representative of HM King and Queen visits Bangkok bomb blast patients

    King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida instructed His Majesty’s assistant private secretary to visit the five individuals injured by the bomb blasts around Bangkok during peak hour on Friday morning. AVM Pakdee Saengchuto delivered flowers and gift baskets to the five victims in hospital and conveyed Their Majesties’ concerns. His first stop was at Saint Louis Hospital in Sathorn district,…

  • Tourism NewsThailand’s marijuana and massage-led tourism recovery
    ThaigerPublished: 15:23, 19 July 2019
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    Thailand’s marijuana and massage-led tourism recovery

    The new Thai minister for tourism and sports says he can lure Europeans and Americans back to Thailand with the promise of massage and marijuana – medical marijuana! The newly sworn-in political “newbie” told the media on Wednesday that he is well aware of the drop in visitors from the US and Europe. He says he hopes plans to promote the…

  • Phuket NewsSingapore barge and crane arrive for the rising of Phoenix
    Kritsada MueanhawongPublished: 17:53, 13 November 2018
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    Singapore barge and crane arrive for the rising of Phoenix

    Phuket’s Governor Pakkapong Tawipat says that the barge which has been making its way from Singapore with a 1,200 tons crane this week, has arrived at ready to help with the recovery of ‘Phoenix’. The Governor is expecting that, if the weather holds, the boat will be brought to the surface before Thursday. Equipment in four containers was also being…

  • Krabi NewsEvidence of Maya Bay recovery
    ThaigerPublished: 10:40, 20 October 2018
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    Evidence of Maya Bay recovery

    Blacktip reef sharks have been spotted at the recovering Maya Bay on Koh Phi Phi Ley today. This morning official at the Hat Noppharat Thara-Mu Ko Phi Phi National Park reported that many Blacktip reef sharks were discovered swimming just off the beach in Maya Bay. They said it was a good sign of the improving biological system. The famous…

  • Krabi NewsMaya Bay recovering says marine biologist
    ThaigerPublished: 14:07, 17 October 2018
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    Maya Bay recovering says marine biologist

    Marine biologist Dr Thon Thamrongnawasawat says Maya Bay is starting to recover after many Blacktip reef sharks were found swimming around yesterday. Dr Thon has commented on a video showing the Blacktip reef sharks found swimming near the shores of Maya Bay yesterday, “I have seen them about 2-3 times in the past week that I have been there. This…