Thailand tourist arrivals top 10 million for the year
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A bunch of the boys from the Herald and The World and the Chronicle and such were living it up, as they do, with yet another game of five-card, 10-cent stud poker when the only dame of the gang waltzed in -- Hildegaard Johnson, better known as Hildy but entirely living up to the translation of her Norse name, Battle Woman.
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This is the early edition of Fishwrap forThursday, April 18.Or to put it another way, the fifth day of B.E. 2568.
Four years ago,front page, Bangkok Post:
Health authorities have identified a pneumonia case caused by a previously unknown virus in Thailand — the first known infection outside of China, where the virus is thought to have begun spreading last month.
The patient is a Chinese tourist from Wuhan, the city where the outbreak is occurring, health officials said. Thai authorities identified her as a 61-year-old woman who was recovering at a hospital in Nonthaburi province, just north of Bangkok.
Chinese authorities have been moving quicklyto control the spread of the virus...
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1834789/
You may not be aware that this is Bat Appreciation Week
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It's oh-so hot in central Thailand right now
Elderly man dies from heat stroke in family pick-up
Victim was travelling in the family's beat-up pick-up with poor air conditioning in sluggish holiday traffic.
Chat's son was driving at the time and noticed that his father appeared unresponsive. When he reached over, he said, Chat was cold to the touch.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2775623/
IN TWO DAYS
Songkran road death toll reaches 206
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2776909/
Tourist arrivals top 10 million for 2024
This is a line of them waiting to get into the Grand Palace.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2777034/
The largest groups were Chinese, then 1.39 million from Malaysia, 695,624 Russians, 619,186 South Koreans, and 546,935 from India.
'Welcome Home'
That's the message that Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin hopes to give to self-exiled Yingluck Shinawatra (below) and other disaffected political refugees.
But there's a catch: Srettha said he would welcome former premier Yingluck and others convicted for political reasons -- on condition that they strictly followed Thai law.
All people convicted for politics want to return to their homeland.
PHOTO: Yingluck at Khanom Krok Kuk, her favourite Thai shop in London.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/politics/2776362/
Thai Airways detours around Middle East
THAI has directed its Europe-bound flights to make detours around the Middle East after Iran's attacks on Israel last Saturday evening.
The foreign ministry has found no immediate impact on Thais in Iran and Israel.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2776006/
Below: In Tehran, Iranians celebrated the missile-and-drone attack against Israel.
MIDEAST ISRAEL IRAN MICHIGANISTAN
The Israeli military renewed warnings on Monday for Palestinians not to return to northern Gaza.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were driven from the north after Israeli forces first launched their offensive there soon after Hamas terrorists attacked Israelon October 7.
The United States, specifically President Joseph Biden, knew in advance of Iran's missile-and-drone attack on Israel last Saturday evening. The U.S. president and aides even informed Turkey of the imminent attack.
Dateline CHICAGO... But then, then a man stumbles to the podium, wiping sweat from his forehead. He grabs the microphone to announce that the Islamic regime of Iran has launched missiles and drones heading straight toward Israel.
The crowd burst into cheers and applause. "The man" was identified as Hatem Abudayyeh, head of a group of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
"The crowd" was claiming to be 'leftist anti-war activists...'
None of the crowd claimed to be anti-war, so a return to the era of Vietnam and Jane "Hanoi Jane" Plemiannikov when pro-communist, pro-war groups claimed to be "anti-war" although they were not.
IRONY
The PFLP was the first Mideast terror group to attack Thailand, in 1972 when gunmen invaded and captured the embassy of Israel.
Thailand today, including Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin and the Thai ministry of foreign affairs claim that Thailand is 'neutral' on all Mideast events.
MIDDLE EAST ISRAEL MEDIA
If a Bully Takes 350 Odd Swings at You and You Duck, How Is That a Win?
A wise community organiser famously advised his constituents to "get in their faces and punch back twice as hard."
Offer not valid in Israel, apparently.
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USA POLITICS TRUMP
When you've even lost CNN...:https://t.ly/fKRav
Even CNN's 'Legal Analyst' destroys Bragg's case against Trump for its 'weakness.'
Royal Thai Police from the cyber crime division arrested two Hong Kong men and seized their equipment for sending fake SMS texts to cheat mobile phone customers out of their band accounts.
Division commander Major General Sathit Prom-uthai (left in photo below) said that a joint operation with mobile firm AIS led to the arrest last evening at classy Siam Paragon mall.
Suspects Yip, 44, and Lee, 26, (in photo) claimed they had no idea what they were carrying -- "for a friend in Hong Kong." The key seizure was a femtocell, which can imitate cellphone towers.
GLOBAL WARMING and other stuff
Musk fires 10 percent of the Tesla EV staff https://t.ly/1ZB5R
Woman who accused Trevor Bauer of rape has been charged with fraud. https://t.ly/32JdW
There are 8 million stories in the Naked City but only 12 will judge Trump. https://t.ly/ZpXhW
LOL @ DAVID FRUM. "We're not supposed to read Biden's refusal to debate to mean that he lacks the mental capacity: https://shorturl.at/jzAFH
America's newspaper of record:
Journalist at NPR suspended, leading to shocking discovery there was a journalist at NPR. https://t.ly/-5uuC
Also, facts from the daily Ladies Home Joule aka The View
Global Warming caused that solar eclipse.
Global Warming also caused the New York earthquake (but you know that).
Global Warming caused the Taiwan earthquake.
Expert scientist Sunny Hostin says so: But you already knew that fire didn't melt that steel at the World Trade Center, right?
U.S. Fact Broadcaster ABC News asks the pertinent question: Is 'dumbass' one word, or two?'
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