CCSA sets up guidelines for reopening Thailand in time for high season
The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) on Wednesday released new guidelines for reopening the country to tourists from October.
This was in response to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha’s call on agencies to devise a system for reopening the country during the high season this year.
The CCSA’s new guidelines are: • Survey what areas can be reopened under sandbox conditions in line with the Phuket Sandbox scheme. If they are islands, they can join the 7+7 sandbox extension. If they are areas that have airports, then a system can be set up to conduct Covid-19 tests on new arrivals. • Come up with prevention and control measures in areas that will be opened. Ensure locals are prepared and make enough vaccines available to curb the spread of the virus. • See if the areas to be reopened have enough hospital beds and medics to treat patients should infections spread.
The Public Health and Tourism and Sports ministries are expected to discuss details of these measures, after which the Interior and Tourism and Sports Ministries will start reopening the country in two phases: • Phase 1 from October 1: Areas ready to reopen under sandbox schemes. • Phase 2 from October 15 or November 1: Reopening destinations that either have cultural attractions, mountains or seas in the North and the East of the country.
Meanwhile, the plan to reopen Bangkok by October 1 has been postponed by two weeks because most residents are waiting for their second jab.
So far, 37 per cent of the city’s population has been fully vaccinated, while another 33 per cent are waiting for their second shot.
Apart from Bangkok, the reopening of Pattaya, Chiang Mai, Hua hin and Cha-am is also in the pipeline. Thailand has already opened Phuket and Koh Samui under sandbox conditions, followed by Krabi and Phang Nga.
Bangkok, 4 other provinces, will definitely open on Oct 1, says tourism ministry
The Tourism and Sports Ministry confirmed on Tuesday that five provinces will open their doors to foreign tourists on October 1.
The provinces are Bangkok, Chonburi, Phetchaburi, Prachuap Khiri Khan and Chiang Mai.
The government has decided to go ahead with the second phase reopening after the first phase of opening four provinces under sandbox conditions proved to be a success. Phuket was reopened on July 1 and Phang Nga, Krabi and Surat Thani soon after.
More provinces will open in the third phase, which will kick off in mid-October. Provinces under this phase include Lamphun, Phrae, Nan, Mae Hong Son, Chiang Rai, Sukhothai, Udon Thani, Nong Khai, Bueng Kan, Ubon Ratchathani, Kanchanaburi, Ratchaburi, Rayong, Chanthaburi, Trat and Ayutthaya.
Tourism and Sports Minister Pipat Ratchakitprakarn said the only obstacle to reopening would be if the number of new Covid-19 cases soared. He said the ministry is 100-per-cent prepared and expects provinces in the third phase to open on time.
He added that he will discuss the reopening of other provinces with Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha first.
He went on to say that Phuket has an average of 200 Covid-19 cases daily and that the provincial governor has launched proactive testing sessions in every community, especially among migrant workers and fishermen.
He said this situation should be solved by the end of the month.
Meanwhile, the “Rao Tiew Duay Kan” (We Travel Together) and “Tour Teaw Thai” (Travel around Thailand) stimulus measures will be open for registration on September 24 and people will be able to travel from October 15 onwards.
SpaceX launches Inspiration4 flight of all-civilian crew
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Four amateur astronauts lifted off from Kennedy Space Center here Wednesday evening, making history by becoming the first all-civilian crew to reach orbit in a fully commercial mission operated by Elon Musks SpaceX and paid for by a billionaire entrepreneur.
The launch, dubbed Inspiration4, was the first step in what is planned to be an audacious three-day journey in orbit around Earth by a group of people who just months ago didn’t know each other and didn’t expect to fly to space.
Just before launch, Jared Isaacman, the billionaire businessman who financed the trip and is its commander, urged action. “Inspiration4 is go for launch,” he said. “Punch it, SpaceX.”
The flight marks a new expansion in the growth of the commercial space industry and another leap forward by Musk’s SpaceX, which has vowed to open the cosmos to ordinary people, not just professionals trained by the government, in a quest ultimately to land humans on Mars.
Civilians have in the past joined professional astronauts on trips to the International Space Station. And Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin are working to fly paying customers on suborbital flights that would touch the edge of space before falling back to Earth. (Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
But never before has a crew made up entirely of civilians – two of whom won their seats through a competition and sweepstakes – reached orbit.
SpaceX founder, Elon Musk, pumps his fist as the Insiration 4 crew leaves the hanger on their way to launch on Sept. 15, 2021. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Jonathan Newton
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Isaacman, a 38-year-old father of two, made his fortune by founding Shift4 Payments, a payments processing company. He’s an accomplished pilot who flies fighter jets in aerobatic competitions. He paid an undisclosed sum for the mission, though he told Axios it was less than $200 million, and turned it into a fundraiser for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
His first pick to accompany him on the flight was Hayley Arceneaux, a 29-year-old from Memphis who works as a physician assistant. As a child, she was treated for bone cancer at St. Jude and made it her goal to work there and help others. As a result of her cancer, she had a rod placed in her leg, making her the first person with a prosthesis to go to space.
The other crew members, Sian Proctor and Chris Sembroski, won their seats. Proctor, 51, a licensed pilot who is also an artist, poet and college professor from Phoenix, won a competition by using Shift4′s software to build an online store and create a video outlining her space dreams. In it Proctor, who was a finalist for the NASA astronaut program in 2009, read a poem calling for what she called a JEDI future, which she described as Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
In a briefing for reporters before the launch, she said she was honored to be the fourth African American woman to go to space and the first to serve as the pilot of a mission.
“It means that I have this opportunity to not only accomplish my dream, but also inspire the next generation of women of color and girls of color and really get them to think about reaching for the stars,” she said.
Pictures is the SpaceX launch of the Inspiration4 crew manned by civilian astronauts, Jared Isaacman, Sian Proctor, Hayley Arceneaux and Chris Sembroski on Sept. 15, 2021. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Jonathan Newton
Sembroski, a 42-year-old father of two from Everett, Wash., won by donating to the St. Jude fundraiser. A friend of his was initially selected for the seat but backed out and offered it to Sembroski, who works at Lockheed Martin and served in the Air Force.
The Falcon 9 rocket that propelled the crew into space and the Crew Dragon spacecraft that will be their home until they splash down off the coast of Florida are owned and operated by SpaceX, not NASA. But the space agency has over the years invested heavily in the system, awarding SpaceX billions of dollars of contracts so the company could fly cargo and its astronauts to the station.
For this mission, however, NASA was merely a bystander.
The Falcon 9 lifted off at 8:02 p.m. from iconic pad 39A, which SpaceX leases from NASA and was host to the Apollo 11 moon launch as well as many space shuttle launches.
The rocket cackled and roared as it streaked through the darkening sky, reverberating across a Florida Space Coast that is witnessing a resurgence of launches, reminiscent of the early days of the space program, when astronauts including John Glenn, Alan Shepard and Neil Armstrong took to the skies.
The crew of the Inspiration4 mission stands in stark contrast to those men – all White, all trained by the military and then chosen by NASA for their bravery and aptitude for the “right stuff.”
Upon reaching orbit, Isaacman said, “The door is opening now, and it’s pretty incredible.”
The Inspiration4 crew looks more like a slice of America then those NASA pioneers, from different walks of life, of different ages and with different experiences, whose voyage to space was as much happenstance as design.
With this mission, SpaceX will be pushing the limits. The flight is scheduled to reach an altitude of about 360 miles, higher than the International Space Station and the Hubble Space Telescope.
In a Netflix series documenting the mission, Isaacman and his team ask SpaceX about the feasibility of flying above the space station. An unnamed SpaceX employee responded by saying, “Intuitively going slightly above would not present a problem.” But he added that it “will start to stretch our margins. And there may be other problems that I’m not aware of in other subsystems.”
Another employee warned, “Yeah, it’s not one particular thing, it’s just opening Pandora’s box.”
At the preflight media briefing, Isaacman said he wanted the mission to push the envelope. “If we’re going to go to the moon again, and we’re going to go to Mars and beyond, we’ve got to get a little outside our comfort zone and take the next step in that direction,” he said.
The SpaceX launch of the Inspiration4 crew took place Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Jonathan Newton
Benji Reed, SpaceX’s senior director of human spaceflight programs, said his engineers studied the flight trajectory, looked at risks such as micro-meteorites and debris and radiation exposure, and the amount of propellant on the spacecraft, and determined it was something they could do.
“Ultimately it’s about safety and reliability,” he said. While it is a different flight path from the ones it has been flying for NASA, “that’s not to say that you can’t go and do more, and you should go and do more when you can. . . . Certainly, Dragon is capable of doing it. We did all the risk analysis to make sure that we’d fly safely.”
But the flight won’t be easy.
Even professionally trained astronauts suffer from “space sickness” once they reach orbit, finding the weightless environment so disorienting many throw up. And while the crew has been trained in emergency procedures, it’s not clear how they’ll react if something goes wrong – whether they’ll be cool in the moment, or panic.
Though the launch went well, the crew still has three days inside a cramped spacecraft, where they’ll live, sleep and even go to the bathroom in proximity to each other. Then there’s the return. To get home, the spacecraft will have to slam back through the atmosphere, generating extreme temperatures that will engulf the capsule in a fireball.
In an interview last year, Musk acknowledged the risks anytime you put people on top of a rocket loaded with thousands of gallons of highly combustible propellant.
“It’s a scary thing to be launching people,” he said. “We’ve done everything we can to make sure that the rocket is safe and the spacecraft is safe. But the risk is never zero when you’re going 25 times the speed of sound, and you’re circling the Earth every 90 minutes.”
But if they are able to successfully complete the mission, it would go down as a historic flight and demonstrate that there is a growing business in space.
The flight precedes other planned private astronaut missions. Axiom Space, a Houston-based company is chartering flights for customers who are paying around $55 million for a little over a week on the space station. But on those missions, the private astronauts would be accompanied by a former NASA astronaut.
Ultimately, SpaceX and other companies hope the prices will come down and that space will be open not only to the super wealthy – or lucky. Isaacman said the Inspiration4 mission, then, is a first step in that direction.
“It’s just getting started,” he said. “This is just the beginning.”
Nikola showcases German plant nearing first production of electric trucks
Nikola Corp. offered the public a look at the production line the company is counting on to start delivering trucks to customers in the wake of its founder being charged with securities fraud.
The U.S. manufacturer hosted an event Wednesday in Ulm, Germany, where its partner Iveco — the commercial-vehicle unit of CNH Industrial — is preparing to start series production of Nikola Tre heavy-duty trucks by year-end. The first battery-electric models will be delivered to customers in the U.S. early next year, with a fuel cell version slated to follow by the end of 2023.
Nikola is looking to turn the page on a tumultuous period after it went public by combining with a blank-check company in June of last year. Shares of the truckmaker with virtually no revenue initially skyrocketed, briefly making the company worth than Ford Motor Co. The stock came crashing down after a short seller accused founder Trevor Milton of misleading investors. He stepped down as executive chairman in September and pleaded not guilty to fraud charges in July.
The company is keen to deliver a message of “focus and execution,” Chief Executive Officer Mark Russell said during an interview in Ulm. “In spite of all of the challenges like Covid and supply disruptions, here we are.”
Nikola shares rose as much as 8.8% before the start of regular trading and were up 3.6% to $10.27 as of 7 a.m. in New York. The stock has plunged almost 90% from its peak in June 2020.
Russell followed Milton to Nikola from metals manufacturer Worthington Industries Inc., which acquired one of Milton’s earlier business ventures. Last month, the CEO cut Nikola’s projection for initial deliveries this year to 25 to 50 trucks, citing shortages of semiconductors and other parts. Although scarce supplies of chips could render the vehicles ineligible for sale, Nikola still plans to deliver them to customers for testing and charge for them once they’re retrofitted with missing parts.
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Next year, the Ulm facility will build as many as 100 trucks, with demand “far exceeding capacity,” Iveco CEO Gerrit Marx said. The plant will eventually be able to make 3,000 trucks annually across three shifts. Nikola plans to open its second site in Coolidge, Arizona, next year to produce fuel cell-powered trucks.
Nikola and Iveco have invested 40 million euros ($47 million) to upgrade the latter company’s chassis engineering hub in Ulm for final assembly of the Tre. The heavy-duty truck with a driving range of 560 kilometers (348 miles) is designed for shorter trips such as moving freight within industrial ports or garbage collection. It will be built off an Iveco platform with modules from the manufacturer’s factories in Spain.
Nikola is handling vehicle controls, including driver-facing software, and proprietary technology related to designing the Tre’s 4.5-ton battery pack.
In addition to unveiling their joint-venture facility on Wednesday, Iveco and Nikola announced an agreement with the Hamburg Port Authority to test up to 25 battery-electric Tre trucks starting next year.
Iveco has stood by Nikola while other big-name partners have pulled back. General Motors dropped a tentative plan to take a stake in the company and produce an electric pickup called the Badger. Their remaining agreement for Nikola to use GM’s hydrogen fuel cell technology in its trucks now appears to be in limbo — Nikola announced earlier this month it will source fuel cell systems from German supplier Robert Bosch.
“There were enough reasons to stop all of this — the last 24 months would have equipped us with enough reasons, everybody would have understood,” Iveco’s Marx said. “But we never even considered it.”
Facebook risks for young people add to bipartisan backlash
Facebook is facing renewed fury from Washington after reports suggested the company knew, but didnt disclose, that its Instagram platform could pose risks to teenagers.
The report from the Wall Street Journal citing Facebook’s own internal research gives fuel to politicians who have pledged to hold social media companies accountable for their impact on mental health, civil discourse and democracy. While previous rounds of outrage over issues such as the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal haven’t dented Facebook’s business model or profitability, this backlash could bring Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg and other company executives back to testify before Congress about the shortcomings.
Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., the chair and ranking member of the Senate consumer protection subcommittee, said they have been in contact with a Facebook whistle-blower and “will use every resource at our disposal to investigate what Facebook knew and when they knew it.”
The senators said Tuesday they planned to seek further documents and speak with witnesses as part of the investigation. The Senate Commerce Committee has the power to issue subpoenas for records and witness testimony.
“It is clear that Facebook is incapable of holding itself accountable,” the senators said. “The Wall Street Journal’s reporting reveals Facebook’s leadership to be focused on a growth-at-all-costs mindset that valued profits over the health and lives of children and teens.”
This is a common complaint from lawmakers of both parties. Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the ranking Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, opened a March hearing with Zuckerberg and other tech executives by saying their platforms are her “biggest fear as a parent” — a complaint she echoed Tuesday.
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Sen. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, also said he’ll be “demanding answers” about the Journal report.
When asked for comment about the statement from Blumenthal and Blackburn, a Facebook spokesperson referred to an earlier blog post from Karina Newton, Instagram’s head of public policy, about what internal and external research found regarding social media’s impact on young people.
“The question on many people’s minds is if social media is good or bad for people,” Newton wrote. “The research on this is mixed; it can be both. At Instagram, we look at the benefits and the risks of what we do.”
The Journal story focuses on the mental health risks such as anxiety and depression for young people, especially girls, who use Instagram, the photo-sharing app. The article references a letter that Blumenthal and Blackburn sent to Facebook last month seeking more information on how the company’s internal research informs products designed for children and teens.
But Facebook’s reply to the senators didn’t include the company study detailed in the article.
“When given the opportunity to come clean to us about their knowledge of Instagram’s impact on young users, Facebook provided evasive answers that were misleading and covered up clear evidence of significant harm,” the senators said.
Apple unveils new iPhone 13, iPads and Apple Watch Series 7 at its fall event
Apple chose style over substance on Tuesday, when it announced a lineup of surprise-free upgrades that didnt quite live up to the high video production of its pre-recorded stream.
The star, if there was one, was a slate of camera improvements for its new iPhone 13 lineup, as well as something far less visible people have been clamoring for: a bigger smartphone battery.
The iPhone announcement was one of a handful of incremental updates the company made to its most popular mobile products. In addition to the new iPhone 13 devices, Apple showcased a new Apple Watch Series 7 that sports a larger screen but familiar features and a pair of new iPads, including a long-awaited update for the iPad mini.
The virtual event featured a mix of well-lit executives, high-production value advertisements, dramatic drone footage, and celebrity guest appearances. But behind the gloss of Tuesday’s product launch, Apple is facing multiple headwinds including antitrust concerns, unhappy developers and security and privacy holes.
Though Apple’s stock was down slightly Tuesday, the company’s strategy of offering only incremental improvements to its devices has paid off in recent quarters. Apple CEO Tim Cook said during the event that iPad sales were up 40% this year and in its most recent securities filing, Apple reported 50% year-over-year growth in iPhone sales. While Apple’s device features stay the same, its stock valuation – now at $2.45 trillion – continues to go up.
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After a temporary slump in sales last summer due to the pandemic, Apple’s business has been reinvigorated, with $66 billion in iPhone sales during the holiday quarter, up nearly $10 billion from the previous year.
Keeping it simple may also prove to be a good strategy in a year plagued by a semiconductor shortage and supply chain disruptions that have left retailers in short supply in many product categories including consumer electronics. According to market research firm Strategy Analytics, Apple has sold 78 million phones that carry the iPhone 12 name this year. To produce that many devices, every tiny change Apple makes to its devices becomes a heavy lift for its suppliers.
Apple also had little to say about its services offerings. Despite lengthy presentations touting already-announced subscription products like Apple TV+ and Apple Fitness+, the company’s services strategy is working. It earned $17.5 billion this past quarter from all of its digital fees, including commission on mobile game transactions and iCloud Photos storage. Just four years ago, Apple brought in only $7.3 billion in quarterly revenue for that category.
“As an Apple customer, you have to accept that most features other than, say, the camera are going to be lagging edge,” said Patrick Moorhead, an analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy. He said cameras offered by Samsung and Huawei are better than those on the iPhone. “There’s not a big enough reason to change over.”
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Arguably, the highlight of Apple’s September event was a slew of new smartphones: the iPhone 13, 13 mini, 13 Pro, and 13 Pro Max, all with changes that were more routine than revolutionary.
Consider the $699 iPhone 13 mini and $799 iPhone 13. Compared to last year, both phones pack slightly brighter screens, so they’ll be easier to see under harsh sunlight. Their notches – the big, dark camera cutouts at the top of iPhone screens – are about 20% smaller. The pair of cameras on both phones’ backs should take slightly better photos in low light. And both models sport Apple’s latest, high-powered processor for improved performance, though you would probably be hard-pressed to see a difference if you already bought last year’s model.
Meanwhile, Apple’s premium phones – the $999 iPhone 13 Pro and the larger, $1,099 13 Pro Max – are slightly more powerful than the standard iPhone 13s, and feature screens designed to look smoother and brighter to boot. Smartphone photographers can take extreme close-ups with the Pro iPhones’ new macro feature, and will notice slightly better photos when shooting in low light. And would-be movie makers have access to tools that replicate camera techniques seen in classic films.
As ordinary as some of these updates seem, one feature found in all of these phones is worth celebrating: improved battery life. Compared to last year’s models, each of Apple’s new iPhone 13s should last at least an hour and a half longer on a single charge.
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One of the biggest surprises during Tuesday’s show was the new, $499 iPad mini, which received its first major redesign in years.
Now, Apple’s smallest slate looks like a pint-sized version of the iPad Pro and iPad Air, albeit with an 8.3-inch screen. The company’s redesign brought 5G to the mini for the first time, as well as a USB-C port for connecting accessories like keyboards, monitors and external hard drives in addition to charging. And despite its small stature, the iPad mini might actually be more powerful than the iPad Air released last year, thanks to its new A15 processor.
Apple also updated its cheapest iPad, which sells for $329. This ninth-generation tablet now uses the same processor as Apple’s iPhone 11, and comes with double the storage compared to last year’s base model. Meanwhile, the dinky, 1.2-megapixel camera Apple used last year has been replaced with a 12-megapixel camera that plays nice with a feature to keep you centered in your video calls.
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The Apple Watch is getting its biggest redesign in years, but you’ll have to look closely to see it. The screen on the Series 7 watch is 20% larger than last year’s model – and 50% larger than the third-generation model, thanks to shrinking borders. So what would a larger screen do for you? Apple says it redesigned a lot of buttons to make them bigger and can fit 50% more text on the screen. There’s even now a full keyboard available for pecking out texts and emails.
Other changes are minimal. There’s a more durable, dust-resistant screen, and it should charge 33% faster – though Apple said nothing about improving the battery life. Apple didn’t add any new health or body sensors like it did last year.
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The name of the event was “California Streaming,” but the actual announcement was short on details about its various streaming services. Cook touted popular Apple TV+ shows, which include Emmy-nominated conversation pieces such as “Ted Lasso,” but did not drill down to viewership numbers.
Apple had a lot more to say about Apple Fitness+, the company’s answer to Peloton. The $10-a-month workout service is adding a few new types of exercises, including Pilates workouts and guided meditations. You can see a live video of their face in the corner of your screen while streaming a workout, and add up to 32 people.
Overall, the event checked all the boxes for an annual listing of updates. That’s likely enough for people who already own Apple devices and are just ready to upgrade.
Starting in October, children aged 12 and up will get Pfizer jabs with consent from parents.
However, Chulalongkorn University virologist Dr Yong Poovorawan cautions that mRNA vaccine can cause the rare side effect of heart inflammation (myocarditis/pericarditis) in children, citing a US study (https://www.nationthailand.com/life/40005961).
US research indicates boys aged 12 to 15 are four times more likely to develop mRNA vaccine-related myocarditis than be hospitalised with Covid-19.
What are mRNA vaccines?
These vaccines use messenger RNA (mRNA) to instruct the body’s cells to make the Covid virus protein spike, which then triggers an immune response.
AstraZeneca ‘mini-booster’ gives almost same immunity as full shot, say Thai researchers
A mini booster shot containing one-fifth the normal of dose of AstraZeneca vaccine gives almost the same level of immunity as a full dose, according to new research at Prince of Songkla University (PSU).
The PSU study involved 95 volunteers who had already had two shots of Sinovac vaccine.
The volunteers were divided into two groups, with the first group given the mini-booster and the second group given a full shot of AstraZeneca.
After they were given the mini-booster, volunteers’ immunity – measured by BAU/mL or binding antibody units per millilitre – soared from an average 128.7 to 1,300.
Meanwhile, the full AstraZeneca dose generated immunity of 1,600 BAU/mL.
Some volunteers had their Sinovac jabs 4-8 weeks apart and others 8-12 weeks apart, but there was no significant difference in the mini-booster’s effect on either group, said researchers. Both groups saw their antibodies and T-cells surge to high levels after receiving one-fifth of an AstraZeneca dose, they added.
Researchers also reported no serious side effects among the 95 volunteers.
The mini-booster jabs were administered subcutaneously (under the skin) while the full dose was injected into the muscle. No serious side effects were reported by volunteers in either group. The mini-booster generated fewer physical side effects such as fever, chills, and aches, but more swelling, redness, heat and itching at the injection site.
Thai Olympic boxing sensation Sudaporn earns Navy promotion
Thailand’s first female Olympic boxing medallist has completed her training at the Royal Thai Naval Academy and will be promoted to Acting Sub-Lieutenant soon, the Navy said on Thursday.
Sudaporn “Taew” Seesondee and 48 other trainees received their certificates from Vice Admiral Kraisri Kesorn, chief of the academy, during a ceremony in Samut Prakan on Thursday morning.
The Navy said the training from September 8-16 took place under strict Covid-19 controls.
“Sudaporn will report to the Royal Thai Navy College of Nursing to begin her duties as a physical education teacher,” the Navy Facebook page added.
Thai Olympic boxing sensation Sudaporn earns Navy promotion
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Sudaporn became the first Thai female boxer to win an Olympic medal when she took bronze in the 60kg category at the Tokyo Games in August.
Thai Olympic boxing sensation Sudaporn earns Navy promotion
Thailand wins two gold medals at Asian Airgun Championship
Shooters Napis Tortungpanich and Chanittha Sastwej showed stunning form to win the first gold medals for Thailand at the 14th Asian Airgun Championship in Kazakhstan on Monday. The Thai pairing outshot their rivals to stand top of the podium in the 10m air rifle mixed team category.
Napis and Chanittha bagged a total score of 625.9 to grab the gold by the narrowest of margins from the Kazak team, who scored 625.8.
The 14th Asian Airgun Championship is being held from September 10 to 20. Thai athletes will aim for more medals in the air pistol matches on Tuesday.
SpaceX founder, Elon Musk, pumps his fist as the Insiration 4 crew leaves the hanger on their way to launch on Sept. 15, 2021. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Jonathan Newton
Pictures is the SpaceX launch of the Inspiration4 crew manned by civilian astronauts, Jared Isaacman, Sian Proctor, Hayley Arceneaux and Chris Sembroski on Sept. 15, 2021. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Jonathan Newton
The SpaceX launch of the Inspiration4 crew took place Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Jonathan Newton
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Thai Olympic boxing sensation Sudaporn earns Navy promotion
Thai Olympic boxing sensation Sudaporn earns Navy promotion
Thai Olympic boxing sensation Sudaporn earns Navy promotion
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