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Experts to map population of birds as peafowl numbers exceed estimate by 10 times (nationthailand.com)

Experts to map population of birds as peafowl numbers exceed estimate by 10 times

NationalDec 06. 2020

By The Nation

Researchers from King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi have found 4,000-5,000 green peafowl in Phayao province.

They intend to make a map of birds around the country to record the actual population.

The new number is 10 times higher than the previous study which estimated only 400-500 peafowl in Khao Sanam Priang Wildlife Sanctuary.

Tananun Chotprasertkhun, a researcher funded by the Asahi Glass Foundation, who is studying peafowl in the northern region, is trying to figure out the exact number of the population for ecotourism management.

She said that peafowl are an indicator of the abundance of forest and whether the forest has a suitable eco-system for the flora and fauna.

She said that the birds and the locals have conflicts due to the expansion of human residential and agricultural zones where peafowl come to find food.

The idea of ecotourism will help them live in harmony and the model community will be the Huai Khao Kam subdistrict in Phayao province.

The peafowl is under Thailand’s wildlife protection and it is listed in the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s red list of endangered species.

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Upper Thailand gets cooler, while isolated thundershowers lash South (nationthailand.com)

Upper Thailand gets cooler, while isolated thundershowers lash South

NationalDec 06. 2020

By The Nation

A strong high-pressure system still covers upper Thailand, lowering the temperature by 1-2 degrees Celsius, the Thailand Meteorological Department said on Sunday.

Cool to cold weather and strong winds are also expected in the Northeast and the East. On mountaintops, isolated frost is forecast with cold to very cold weather. People should watch their health due to the variable weather conditions, the department said.

Meanwhile, the weakening northeast monsoon prevails across the Gulf of Thailand and the South with isolated thundershowers. Moderate winds in the Gulf force the waves up about two metres high and more than two metres high in thundershowers. All ships should proceed with caution and keep off thundershowers, the department said.

The weather forecast until 6am Monday:

North: Cool to cold with a 1-2 degrees Celsius drop in temperature; minimum temperature 14-17°C, maximum 27-31°C; cold to very cold on mountaintops and frost in some places with minimum temperature 4-13°C; northeasterly winds 10-25 kilometres per hour (kph).

Northeast: Cool to cold with strong winds and slight drop in temperature; minimum temperature 11-16°C, maximum 26-30°C; cold on the mountain top with minimum temperature 6-13°C; northeasterly winds 20-35kph.

Central: Cool in the morning with slight drop in temperature; minimum temperature 17-19°C, maximum 30-32°C; northeasterly winds 15-30kph.

East: Cool with strong winds; minimum temperature 17-22°C, maximum 30-32°C; northeasterly winds 15-30kph; waves 1-2 metres high and about two metres offshore.

South (east coast): Partly cloudy with isolated thundershowers mostly in Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat provinces; minimum temperature 21-24°C, maximum 30-32°C; northeasterly winds 20-35kph; waves about two metres high and above two metres in thundershowers.

South (west coast): Cloudy with isolated thundershowers, mostly in Krabi, Trang and Satun provinces; minimum temperature 22-24°C, maximum 31-33°C; northeasterly winds 20-35kph; waves about a metre high and about two metres offshore.

Bangkok: Cloudy with strong winds; minimum temperature 19-21°C, maximum 30-32°C; northeasterly winds 15-30kph.

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People pay tribute to Thai Kings at Grand Palace on King Rama IX’s birthday (nationthailand.com)

People pay tribute to Thai Kings at Grand Palace on King Rama IX’s birthday

NationalDec 06. 2020

By THE NATION

The Bureau of the Royal Household on Saturday allowed people to worship the statues of previous Kings of Thailand enshrined in Bangkok’s Grand Palace, to mark the birthday of the beloved late monarch King Rama IX.

To visit the Palace, the visitors had to enter through Wat Phra Kaew. The door was open from 8am to 9pm.

December 5 is celebrated as Father’s Day in Thailand. Fathers and their children on Saturday were allowed to use the BTS, BRT and Airport Rail Link services for free from 6am to midnight. The free fares covered all routes provided fathers and their children started and ended the journey together. In addition, all children up to 90 centimetres tall were allowed to travel for free.

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A casualty of flooding (nationthailand.com)

A casualty of flooding

NationalDec 05. 2020Photos by Charoon Thongnual 

By The Nation

People from more than 400 households in a subdistrict of Nakhon Si Thammarat province have to cross a bridge on foot or by using a motorcycle after it collapsed due to severe flooding.

To prevent accidents, the 4th Army Area troops and the Department of Rural Roads officials are speeding up maintenance and construction of the bypass in Krungching subdistrict, expecting to complete the work in three days.

The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said that 321,057 households in the provinces of Surat Thani, Krabi, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Trang, Phatthalung and Songkhla were still struggling with floods.

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Nearly 400,000 households affected as many southern provinces battle floods (nationthailand.com)

Nearly 400,000 households affected as many southern provinces battle floods

NationalDec 05. 2020

By THE NATION

Six provinces in the South are still inundated from the impact of the northeast monsoon prevailing over the South since November 25.

The heavy rains have triggered flash floods and water runoffs in 11 provinces, 98 districts and 529 subdistricts, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said.

The provinces that remain flooded are: Surat Thani, Krabi, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Trang, Phatthalung and Songkhla, although the water level is gradually decreasing.

As of Saturday, 383,669 households from 3,633 villages were reported to have been affected by the floods, while total death toll is 13.

The department said it has coordinated with local administration offices, military personnel and related agencies to provide aid to the victims. Consumer products, medical supplies, drinking water, mobile toilet vehicles, water pumps and fiberglass boats were delivered to help flood victims, while officials are helping to evacuate local villagers from areas that have high water level.

The department will also dispatch officials to estimate the damage in each community and submit the report to the Ministry of Finance to disburse subsidies earmarked for natural disasters.

Those who require assistance during natural disasters, can contact the department’s hotline at 1784.

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Free meals distributed to mark birthday of King Rama IX (nationthailand.com)

Free meals distributed to mark birthday of King Rama IX

NationalDec 05. 2020

By The Nation

Several merchants at Municipal Market 1 in Phitsanulok province handed out free meals for people to mark the birthday of the late King Rama IX on Saturday.

This activity has been done every year to make merit for the late King and reduce people’s cost of living.

Tee Wirotewanich, a 79-year-old merchant, offered meals, such as basil fried rice, omelette rice and bakeries to people in the market.

Meanwhile, another merchant’s 100 pieces of Khao Tom Mud (steamed sticky rice with banana) were snapped up in no time.

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Thailand now second-biggest rubber gloves exporter amid Covid-19 pandemic (nationthailand.com)

Thailand now second-biggest rubber gloves exporter amid Covid-19 pandemic

Dec 05. 2020

By THE NATION

Thailand has emerged as the world’s second largest manufacturer and exporter of rubber gloves due to the soaring demand following the Covid-19 outbreak, the head of the Rubber Authority of Thailand (RAT) has said.

RAT director-general Nakorn Takkawipat said that, “With proper support from the government, we can become the global centre of rubber glove manufacturing.

“We already possess the technology to reduce allergy-inducing protein in rubber gloves, which, if implemented by all domestic manufacturers, can increase the value of their product and promote the image of Thai rubber gloves in the global market.”

Junlathep Khajornchaikul, director of National Metal and Materials Technology Centre (MTEC), said that MTEC was successful in developing the technology to reduce or eliminate protein that could cause allergy in rubber gloves.

“Our laboratory tests have confirmed that the gloves applied with this technology pass the ASTM D7427-16 standard and have zero protein that could cause allergy,” he said.

“The next step is to calculate the cost that will be added to bill of material, which we expect should be at an acceptable level for most domestic manufacturers.”

Naphawan Lekhawat, director of RAT’s Rubber Industry Research and Development Division, added that from January to October 2020 Thailand exported over 20.5 billion pairs of gloves, increasing 22 per cent from the same period last year.

“Total rubber gloves export value in 2019 was recorded at Bt37.3 billion, while this year we have exported more than Bt53.8 billion so far, a 72.4 per cent increase, due to the Covid-19 situation,” she said.

“This makes Thailand the world’s second-largest rubber gloves manufacturer and exporter behind Malaysia.”

The top five importers of rubber gloves from Thailand were: the United States (Bt20.64 billion), UK (Bt3.95 billion), Japan (Bt2.97 billion), China (Bt2.9 billion) and Germany (Bt2.49 billion).

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Covid-19 cases dent Chiang Mai’s tourism recovery (nationthailand.com)

Covid-19 cases dent Chiang Mai’s tourism recovery

NationalDec 05. 2020

By The Nation

Chiang Mai’s hotel occupancy rate has dropped suddenly due to uncertainty over new Covid-19 cases in the northern region, an industry official said.

Recently, 10 Thai women working in Myanmar’s Tachilek district sneaked into the country and put hundreds of people at risk in several provinces.

La-iad Bungsrithong, president of Thai Hotels Association of Northern Upper region, said 1,700 room night bookings at hotels in Chiang Mai had been cancelled, while tourists who were travelling as a group, such as local administrative organisations, had cancelled their reservations the most.

Meanwhile, she is worried that more tourists would delay their reservations during the long holiday that the government had announced earlier to stimulate domestic tourism, due to negative news of Covid-19 cases.

“To gain confidence among tourists, the Chiang Mai governor has assured that the provincial authorities will not impose lockdown measures. He also said that Covid-19 tests on people who had been in contact with patients had yielded 99.99 per cent negative results,” she said.

She added that the governor had held an urgent meeting with hotel operators and travel associations on December 1 to create awareness on implementing measures to contain the spread of the disease, while instructing government agencies to inspect venues which contained risks of infection.

“The association believes that the governor’s move would help boost tourists’ morale because there are many tourism events during this time,” she said.

She expected Chiang Mai’s hotel occupancy rate in December to increase, as the occupancy rate in the previous month was 60-70 per cent.

“The negative news of Covid-19 cases in the region, however, has caused an impact on tourism during this high season,” she added.

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Two local patients among 19 new Covid-19 cases (nationthailand.com)

Two local patients among 19 new Covid-19 cases

NationalDec 05. 2020

By THE NATION

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration on Saturday reported 19 new cases over a 24-hour period.

The  new patients included two domestic cases, 13 in  state quarantine and four who had not been quarantined in the designated places.

The domestic cases were a Thai woman, 30, in Sing Buri province and a man, 50, in Chiang Rai province.

The two patients had been in contact with infected patients.

In the case of the woman, Dr Sophon Iamsirithaworn, director-general of the communicable diseases department, said on Friday that she had taken the same Nok Air DD8717 flight to Don Mueang as a 25-year-old woman, who had secretly crossed over. The 25-year-old had then taken another flight to  Phichit province.

The other patients in  quarantine consisted of nine Thai women and four foreigners.

One Thai aged 19 had returned from the UK, one aged 26 came  from the Netherlands, a  24-year-old returned from Malaysia, three patients aged 19, 59 and 66, had returned from the US, one person, aged 47, came from Mexico, and two persons, aged 22 and 24, were from Myanmar.

The foreign patients were two Indian women, aged 22 and 27, from Sweden and India respectively; and two men – a Swiss, 66, and Dutch, 56 — from Switzerland.

In addition, there were four people who were infected with Covid-19 but were not  quarantined in the provided places. These persons were one Myanmar man, aged 43, and three Thai nationals – two women aged 25 and a man, 32.

The Myanmar man had come to Thailand for a health checkup in Tak province’s Mae Sot district. The other three Thais allegedly crossed the border illegally via a natural channel.

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Live grenades discovered in wildlife sanctuary (nationthailand.com)

Live grenades discovered in wildlife sanctuary

NationalDec 05. 2020

By THE NATION

Ten grenades were found in Huai Sala Wildlife Sanctuary in Si Sa Ket province when a local visited the forest area for collecting mushrooms and other natural products.

On Friday, the local, Supin Thammaporn, 58, informed what he had seen in the sanctuary to the chief of Phu Sing district, where the sanctuary is located.

The chief then contacted other officials, as well as volunteers, to check the suspected objects.

The officials found 10 live grenades. They cordoned off the area and put signs up to warn the locals.

The Army was contacted to dispose the bombs of.