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Chinese lunch alone at HongBao Restaurant in Crystal Park Mall

 

 

 

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Bean curd prawn wrap
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https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2095915/jobless-pattaya-elephants-begin-500km-walk-home

Jobless Pattaya elephants begin 500km walk home

PUBLISHED : 6 APR 2021 AT 17:33 WRITER: CHAIYOT PUPATTANAPONG

 

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Five unemployed elephants and their owners begin walking from Pattaya to their native province of Surin, in tambon Nong Prue of Bang Lamung district, Chon Buri, on Tuesday. (Photo: Chaiyot Pupattanapong)

 

CHON BURI: After waiting in vain for tourists near Pattaya for more than a year, five elephants and their owners are heading back to their northeastern home province of Surin – a 500km journey, on foot.

 

Members of five extended families were walking with their five elephants, with a pickup truck protecting the group in the front and the back, along the road beside the Map Prachan reservoir in tambon Nong Prue of Bang Lamung district on Tuesday.

 

Napalai Mai-ngam, 26, said five years ago she had brought her relatives and their tamed elephants from Surin to work at an elephant resort in tambon Lam Huay Yai of Bang Lamung. They had made a good living, she said, receiving a monthly salary of 15,000 baht per elephant plus tips from tourists who enjoyed riding their elephants on nature trails.

 

Covid-19 stopped everything in January last year. Their employer suspended paying their salaries when the Chinese tourists who formed the majority of their customers disappeared, she said.

 

With no immediate return of tourists in sight amid the continuing pandemic, the natives of Surin finally gave up hope and decided to go back to farming in their home province.

 

Ms Napalai said her group set off early on Tuesday morning when the weather was not too hot. The pachyderms would have to walk the roughly 500 kilometres to Surin because the owners could not afford to hire big trucks to carry them. The owners also hoped their elephants could feed themselvers by grazing along the way.

 

Ms Napalai estimated that it would take about two weeks for her group to reach their home district of Tha Tum in Surin.

 

She said she was very grateful to villagers who donated fruit, drinking water and food to them as they passed by.

 

Ms Napalai said some people asked for their bank account numbers to make cash donations, but her group politely declined the offer for fear of being criticised for trying to cash in on their elephants via a social media story,

 

They would only receive food and fruit for their elephants, she said. The group could be reached by phone on 093-3357062.

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surin province, like many northeast provinces, is predominantly agricultural.

 

not sure how the elephants and their mahouts will do when they get back to their hometown.

 

successive thai governments has neglected to develop the economies of the provinces outside of bkk and its surrounding region. 

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The current new outbreak of Covid with new strains and super spreader is very stressful. Took a drive to a club near home to see some greenery to relax.

 

 

 

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https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Thai-cabinet-becomes-COVID-hot-spot-as-ministers-quarantine?utm_campaign=RN Subscriber newsletter&utm_medium=coronavirus_newsletter&utm_source=NAR Newsletter&utm_content=article link&del_type=10&pub_date=20210408150000&seq_num=14&si=44594

 

Thai cabinet becomes COVID hot spot as ministers quarantine
Japanese ambassador also infected as contagious UK variant spreads in kingdom

 

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Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha has tested negative for coronavirus but the transport minister has fallen ill with the disease and several are now in quarantine.     © Reuters
MASAYUKI YUDA, Nikkei staff writerApril 7, 2021 19:54 JST

 

BANGKOK -- Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha's cabinet is becoming the latest hot spot of Thailand's third wave of COVID-19 infections after a minister fell ill with the virus.

 

Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, after developing a fever and being admitted to a hospital in Buriram, roughly 300 kilometers northeast of Bangkok.

 

His infection could pose a serious threat to the kingdom's administrative and policymaking capability. The minister is the secretary-general of Bhumjaithai Party, the second largest party in the ruling coalition. The party hosted a merit-making ceremony on Tuesday when the country celebrated Chakri Memorial Day, a national holiday, that commemorates the establishment of the current monarchy.

 

Party leader and Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul is on a 14-day self-quarantine from Wednesday. All members of the party will be absent from parliamentary sessions until they have tested negative for COVID.

 

Prayuth revealed that the cabinet was forced to hold its regular weekly meeting on Wednesday over video conference instead of in person. The prime minister has taken a test that proved negative.

 

Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam, Tourism and Sport Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn, Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Chalermchai Sri-on, and Education Minister Trinuch Thienthong are on leave, according to a government source. They had all had close contact with Saksayam the transport minister.

 

Thailand is facing another wave of infections as 334 new cases were reported on Wednesday, bringing the country total to 29,905. Clusters were found in Bangkok nightlife establishments which led to the closure of 196 entertainment venues in the Klongtoey, Wattana, and Bangkae districts until April 19.

 

Thailand reported on Wednesday its first domestic transmission of a highly contagious variant of the coronavirus first found in Britain, Reuters cited Yong Poovorawan, a senior virus expert at Chulalongkorn University, as saying.

 

The Centre of COVID-19 Situation Administration has proposed that Bangkok and its surrounding provinces such as Pathumthani, Nonthaburi, Samutprakan, and Nakhonpathom be designated high-risk areas. The Ministry of Public Health and the Ministry of Interior will discuss the proposed classification changes over the next two days.

 

The diplomatic circle has also been hit in this wave. Japanese ambassador to Thailand Kazuya Nashida tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. On March 25, the ambassador visited a nightclub called Krystal where he most likely caught the virus, the embassy said.

 

Thais will be on a six-day national holiday from Saturday to celebrate the Thai new year, known as Songkran. There are worries that domestic travel could spread the disease to rural areas. 

 

This wave of infections could hurt Thailand's ambitious plans to open up to foreign tourism, a key pillar of the economy. From this month, the country had shortened the quarantine requirement for travelers from 14 days to 10 days. Those who have been vaccinated only need to isolate for seven days.

 

The government is also conducting a sandbox experiment for quarantine-free stays for vaccinated visitors to the island of Phuket from July. If this is successful, the kingdom plans to expand it nationwide.

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The Bureau of the Royal Household has announced the temporary closure of royal palaces and various locations from 13 April, 2021, until further notice.

 

The temporary closure will be until the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic is resolved.

 

Read more: https://www.tatnews.org/2021/04/royal-palaces-temporarily-close-from-13-april-2021-until-further-notice/

 

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