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Residents of Chiang Mai hailed yesterday’s event as a success. The land and residences were returned to the Treasury Department by the Region 5 Appeal Court. Yesterday, the Department’s Director-General, Prapas Kong-Ied, received papers and house keys and paid a visit to the property. The Court had handed the contested property and housing project at the foot of Doi Suthep in Chiang Mai to the Treasury Department after nearly four years of waiting, demonstrations, and negotiations. 45 homes will be razed and land will be transformed for the “benefit of the occupants,” according to the Department’s Director-General. According to the cabinet meeting, moving officers from the remaining 9 condominiums in the vicinity to the new housing complex in Chiang Rai will take four months. Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha wanted to build new bungalows for court officials on the disputed 33-acre property, which was originally supposed to be a forest for…

Dengue fever epidemics have also been reported in other Southeast Asian nations. In the first month of 2022, 193 persons in Thailand were afflicted with the disease. Two people, one 37 and the other 40, died after becoming infected. Thailand should expect an uptick in new cases this year as the coronavirus declines, according to Thai health experts. Dengue season normally starts on June 1 in the city-heavy state. As of May 28, according to a spokesperson for Singapore’s Ministry of Health, the country has 11,670 cases. There were only 5,258 dengue cases throughout the entire year of 2021. Dengue fever incidences in Singapore have already surpassed the total for the entire year of 2021. According to the Singapore Meteorological Service, Singapore is warming twice as rapidly as the rest of the world. In May, temperatures reached a new high of 36.7 degrees Celsius. Singapore’s largest dengue outbreak in history…

Inflationary pressures, rising interest rates, a food shortage, and a global economic downturn brought on by the spread of Covid-19 and global conflicts such as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine have pushed up oil and manufacturing prices, putting the global economy on the verge of a recession. Foreign investor confidence in Thai stocks remained high last month, with net inflows of about 140 billion baht to the kingdom’s stock exchange for the sixth month in a row. Many countries, including the United States, have already seen at least one quarter of negative growth. A technical rescission is defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth. Many financial analysts believe that many of the world’s major economies are already in a state of recession. According to Stock Exchange of Thailand president Pakorn Peetathawatchai, international investors expect that any food shortages will have a little impact on the Thai economy and…

As the world begins to reopen following the Covid-19 pandemic, Indonesia has expanded efforts to woo higher-spending visitors, particularly remote workers. According to Tourism Minister Sandiaga Uno, Indonesia is launching a five-year “digital nomad” visa and focusing on “spiritual holidays, sporting activities, and ecological tourism.” With the world’s employment and work habits experiencing such radical changes in the post-Covid era, a digital nomad visa that allowed remote employees to work from a tropical resort in Southeast Asia rather than a stuffy office would be immensely enticing.These programs, he says, will draw 3.6 million international visitors to the country’s islands now that the world is re-opening. Increased flights and more fast visa procedures, according to Indonesian officials, could entice more remote workers to the archipelago, with global corporations such as Twitter and Airbnb allowing its employees to work from anywhere in the world. A recent poll of digital nomads found that…

According to Thailand’s Natural Resources and Environment Department, disused oil rigs are being repurposed to construct a new diving destination for visitors 7.5 nautical miles north east of Koh Pha Ngan island. According to Varawut, the metal structures will serve to create a new coral reef tourist sector by attracting diving tour operators and divers, and the artificial coral reef area may be expanded if it proves to be successful. Steel rigs that have been turned into artificial coral reefs as part of a marine ecosystem have three benefits: they attract divers, improve the environment for marine life, and help the fishing industry. Artificial coral reefs attract fish and a variety of other marine species as they spread, according to Supichai Tangjaitrong, managing director of Chula Unisearch, which is part of Chulalongkorn University. The project’s progress, which began in April 2019 and is being carried out in collaboration with Chevron,…

According to the 50-year-old Thai minister, Singapore is eager to help Thailand lead the effort. Chaiwut and his team also met with Josephine Teo, Singapore’s Minister of Communications and Information, to discuss the personal data protection endeavor in further depth. He believes the Singaporean government is interested in digital investment and wants to assist Thailand in realizing its vast potential while also attracting new investors. Chaiwut met with Thai Ambassador to Singapore Gan Kim Yong and Thai Prime Minister’s Secretary to promote eight points on the MoU agenda: digital transformation, e-commerce policies, a fake news center, a government data center and cloud service, personal data protection, investment in Thailand’s Digital Valley and IoT Institute, and the development of digital skills and literacy. The Thailand’s Minister of Digital Economy and Society, visited Singapore yesterday to sign a digital collaboration agreement with Singapore’s Trade and Industry Minister, Gan Kim Yong. The minister…

Due to high seas, a marine turtle washed up on the shores of Phuket’s Kata Beach last week. The Department of Marine and Coastal Resources was called to the scene after a hotel employee informed them of the injured tiny snapper. According to DMCR officials, the turtle’s flippers were injured after being trapped in broken fishing nets. The turtle was also fully dry, which they noticed. The turtle was taken to the Phuket Marine Biological Center’s wildlife rescue center, where experts believe the baby snapper will recover completely. According to locals, a dolphin washed up on the strand of a beach in Phang Nga province, just north of Phuket, yesterday. A local citizen contacted the Royal Thai Navy about the dolphin, and officials from the navy and the Sea Turtle Conservation Centre arrived on the spot. After that, the dolphin was transferred to the Phuket Marine Biological Centre, which is…