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The Thai Embassy in China issued a notice on Weibo, stating that Thailand attaches great importance to the quality and safety of Chinese tourists’ travels as well as their positive impressions of Thailand. Recently, there have been many negative comments about tourism in Thailand circulating on Chinese social media and some sensational rumors have even become a hot topic that alarmed the Thai Prime Minister’s office. Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha ordered the Ministry of Tourism and Sports to clarify the situation in a cabinet meeting. This also shows that Thailand’s “high regard” for Chinese tourists is not just lip…

“Thailand and the U.S. plan to strengthen their partnership in public health and focus on preventing and fighting emerging infectious diseases,” said Director of America’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC) during a meeting in Bangkok with the Kingdom’s Minister of Public Health. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky met with Thailand’s Minister of Public Health Anutin Charnvirakul at the Bamrasnaradura Infectious Disease Institute in Thailand to commemorate their joint efforts to contain the spread of the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) virus 20 years ago. “The emergence of SARS and the threat it posed led Thailand to develop and put in…

Ukraine will not be able to capture Crimea, since the peninsula is difficult to attack. For the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a significant superiority over the Russian army will be required. This opinion was expressed by a German political scientist, professor at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich, Carlo Masala. “For this, she [Ukraine] needs at least a 5:1 advantage. It can only do this by weakening its position elsewhere. In addition, a peninsula like Crimea is difficult to attack,” Masala said in an interview.T Online. According to him, the defense of the Russian Federation in Crimea can collapse only…

UNITED NATIONS — A new report launched Tuesday on the eve of the first major U.N. conference on water in over 45 years says 26% of the world’s population doesn’t have access to safe drinking water and 46% lack access to basic sanitation. The U.N. World Water Development Report 2023 painted a stark picture of the huge gap that needs to be filled to meet U.N. goals to ensure all people have access to clean water and sanitation by 2030. Richard Connor, editor-in-chief of the report, told a news conference that the estimated cost of meeting the goals is somewhere…

(Reuters) – Kyrgyzstan will host a Russia-led security bloc’s peacekeeping drills this year instead of Armenia, which last month declined to host the exercise, the bloc’s chief of staff said on Tuesday. Armenia, engaged in a dispute with Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, said last month it would be unreasonable for it to host the drills of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in the near future. Anatoly Sidorov, the chief of the CTSO united staff, told a briefing on Tuesday that Kyrgyzstan has volunteered to host the “Indestructible Brotherhood” drills. He provided no further details. Kyrgyzstan was scheduled to…

BEIJING, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) — Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang on Monday held talks with Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Don Pramatwinai. Qin Gang pointed out that China will firmly adhere to the state’s core policy of opening up to the outside world, promoting high-quality development and shaping a new development architecture, which will open up new opportunities for China-Thai cooperation. Qin Gang suggested maintaining high-level contacts between the two sides in order to raise mutual political trust to new heights, bring practical cooperation to a new level, and achieve new results in the field of humanitarian exchanges.…

Gavroche has selected for you some salient news in Burma during this past week. An essential news overview for anyone interested in this Southeast Asian country. Politics, Diplomacy Myanmar’s military junta has declared martial law in 37 townships in eight of the country’s 14 states and regions, giving regional commanders absolute authority over areas where it faces strong resistance to its rule. The move was announced Thursday, February 2, a day after the regime extended the national state of emergency in place since taking power two years ago. Nearly a third of the affected communes are in the Sagaing region,…

A huge explosion occurred at a Royal Thai Army (RTA) bomb fuse factory in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya province causing a thick column of smoke in central Thailand at approximately noon today. The factory makes fuses for explosive devices and is part of the Incendiary Factory Division, a Royal Thai Ordnance Department facility where explosives are made for Thailand’s armed forces in the Hantra subdistrict in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya district. Several Ordnance Department fire engines rushed to extinguish the fire inside the factory. Outsiders were prohibited from entering due to it being a military area. A female member of…

By Thai Newsroom Reporters FORMER PRIME MINISTER THAKSIN Shinawatra will almost certainly be put behind bars and get under the judicial process if he returns home from self-exile overseas, confirmed former MP Nipit Intarasombat over the weekend. Thaksin, who was deposed in the 2006 coup and has been reportedly residing in Dubai, repeatedly vowed on social media to come back home without needs for legislation to warrant his long-coveted return or help from the Pheu Thai Party where he is largely viewed as de facto party boss. Nevertheless, Nipit contended that Thaksin could not practically do so without being put…

for the Pheu Thai Party This minute is considered the “democracy talisman” that you and yourselves put on the forehead. Used to impersonate for ten years had already collapsed in the blink of an eye. After the past few weeks have been “friendly people” or so called. “Old subordinates” come out to reveal the true essence until the end Coupled with his own behavior that was shown, it was even more undeniable. and may not use the word “Democracy” earns or monopolizes anymore. Although it’s not a very complicated thing. Most people in society are already aware that These people…