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It’s been a long while since Bangkok welcomed such a large number of tourists after the government scrapped all of the complicated Covid-19 preventive arrival measures in January. The city has become lively again with more foreign tourists and local people themselves who also tend to gradually start living their lives again. And it may also be a long while since some tourists have visited the city. So here, TPN media has covered some of the major changes in the capital for our readers who are s

The Thai Constitutional Court’s ruling on the suspension of General Prayut Chan-O’Cha as the Prime Minister on Wednesday was an unexpected turn of events for Thai politics as Prime Minister Prayut seemingly has unshaken power as the country leader and, moreover, the judges in the quorum were appointed by the Prime Minister himself.

Thai social media was flooded with the hashtag “#ไม่เรียนออนไลน์แล้วอิสัส” (roughly translated as “no more f* online classes”) which become the top trending hashtag on Twitter in the blink of an eye today, September 6th, after the pro-democracy “Bad Student” movement called for an online class strike starting this week.

The pro-democracy movement in Thailand, especially in Bangkok, has intensified since the beginning of the month with many significant incidents among protesters and protest leaders. TPN Media has summed up what they had recently gone through during their fight to achieve their political demands.

On the night of December 7th, 2020, the pro-democracy student-led group “FREE Youth” launched their new logo with a red-colored background and symbolically-stylized R and T abbreviated for their new political movement of “Restart Thailand”

Thailand’s Tobacco Control Research and Knowledge Management Center (TRC) urges condominium associations nationwide to adopt smoking restrictions to protect the health and privacy of the majority of non-smoking residences. The Thai law should also designate the smoking prohibition in condominium buildings as they should become a total smoke-free area to reduce the effects of passive smoking, said Dr. Sasitorn Taptagaporn, Deputy Dean for Research and Academic Services at Public Health faculty.

Thai pro-democracy protests were broken up by Thai police forces this evening, October 16, at Pratumwan Intersection in central Bangkok under a declaration of a severe state of emergency. Riot police allegedly used high-pressure water cannons reportedly dyed with blue colors and laced with chemicals to disperse allegedly unarmed protesters before gradually charging at the crowd and taking over the intersection.

A 12-year-old who has been posting make-up videos to YouTube since she was four has celebrated her 12th birthday by buying a BMW. Natthanan Sanunrat, from Thailand, has earned a small fortune after she started playing with her mum's blusher. She has bought the luxury car, which cost around six million baht - about £147k - for her family and was excited to show people around it in another clip for the popular video-sharing website.

Hundreds of Britons are stranded in South East Asia today after the Kashmir crisis forced airlines to cancel flights to the region. Passengers were facing travel chaos as airlines including Thai Airways and Emirates cancelled flights to Pakistan, which has closed its airspace amid growing tensions with its arch rival and neighbour India.