The bombs came out in Burma
Good morning world and everyone in it, everywhere. It is Wednesday April 27.
THAILAND CORONAVIRUS
WHO awards Thailand 'certificate of participation' in Covid tournament
The Chinese-owned and managed World Health Organiation threw a boneo to Thailand on Tuesday for achieving 24th place in the worldwide competition of most-infected, most-deadly Covid-19 nation.
Figures assembled on Monday showed Thailand defeated Austria (25th place) but was outclassed by Malaysia.
The contest will continue indefinately.
Hugely wealth Anutin Charnvirakul, the junta'a loyal 'minister of health' said he was thrilled to bits by nice words by Assistant WHO director Dr Samila Asma. She claimed Thailand was a fine example for other countries especially in its readiness and preparedness.
Not a lie. Thailand started the Covid battle with a nationwide, highly organised health system that allowed trace-and-track from Day One.
https://aseannow.com/topic/1257849-who-praises-thailand-for-covid-19-response-anutin-recognises-role-of-public-in-success/
But the bad news isn't letting up.
On Tuesday, the coronavirus infected 13,816 people, down almost a thousand from Sunday.
The death rate continued high: 120
Yes, well apart from the ruling junta and its clutch of loyal doctors, who doesn't?
The Tourism Council of Thailand (TCT) said the noxious and off-putting Thailand Pass visa/quarantine scheme should be scrapped from June 1, if not sooner.
The group said it guarantees an additional 2 million tourists will flock to Thailand as soon as the Thailand Pass is dropped.
PHOTO: According to the TCT, the number of tourists will increase with the abolition of the Thailand Pass system.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2300514/
After the big-bike rider who killed the doctor in a crosswalk in January, the biggest story in Thailand has been the death of actress Nida "Tangmo" Patcharaveerapong.
The fabulously beautiful Ms Watermelon fell or was pushed (or otherwise) into the river off northern Bangkok during a party with friends aboard a speedboat last February 24.
The wheels of justice are turning. Six 'friends' who were at the speedboat party now face serious criminal charges: recklessness causing death, giving false statements and covering up evidence.
https://bityl.co/BxG7
Burma gets tougher
The bombs came out in the northern town of Myawaddy, where the Tatmadaw's dictatorship is even less popular than most of Myanmar.
Very unusual for Myanmar - the explosion was a car bomb. At the Burmese end of the 'Thailand-Myanmar Friendship Bridge' near Mae Sot in Thailand's northern Tak province.
The weekend bombing, via an old pickup, caused no casualties, but heightened fears along the border.
Junta authorities in Tak immediately declared a military alert for Tak province, especially Mae Sot.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/2299526/
Just one question, President-4-Life Xi:
How's that "zero Covid" policy working out?
This is a short and excellent read on the massive intimidation used by the junta to prevent any opposition, speeches or writing against their regime.
Here is how the story gets under way:
 A new generation of female activists are forcing tough conversations despite state intimidation and arrests
The handcuffs on Maynu Supitcha’s hands were deliberately tightened to inflict as much pain as possible. Every movement sent a shock of pain from her wrist up her arm as she walked to her temporary holding cell.
https://www.thaienquirer.com/39679/a-new-generation-of-female-activists-are-forcing-tough-conversations-despite-state-intimidation-and-arrests/
Related
Highway police stopped and grabbed three activists from their car in Cha-am district, south of Bangkok.
The charge: They conduct public discussions with shoppers and workers on Bangkok sidewalks.
They are lock-and-key for daring to "conduct a street survey in February."
Their discussions with passers-by included the subject of royal reform. So their three ar5e looking at 20 years in prison. Minimum.
https://www.thaienquirer.com/39587/three-youth-protesters-arrested-for-carrying-out-sensitive-street-surveys/
Down comes Bangkok's first department store
Demolition crews began tearing out the interior of the old Bang Lamphu department store in central Bangkok - better known now as the failed and locked New World Mall.
Courts have agreed with Bangkok City Hall claims that there is no chance to save the decrepit building. Excavating foremen estimated it would take them eight months to level the building.
Bang Lamphu opened in 1983, but never had a chance against the big chain stores.
PHOTO: Bang Lamung/New World still looks handsome in a faux-colonial way, but it's too old to save.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2300378/
Smoke 'em if you've got 'em
The man who promises prison for anyone caught vaping with electronic cigarettes checks his personal weed crop.
 Extraordinarily wealthy Anutin Charnvirakul is the junta-appointed 'minister of public health'. He owns the Bhumjaithai political party, which ran for parliament on the unique platform of promising legal marijuana.
NOTICE
It's still okay in Thailand but...
Washington, a state in the U.S.A., has banned the word "Marijuana" because of all that racism.
 Dear Jay Inslee
 Governor, Washington state
 Olympia, Washington
MARIJUANA marijuana marijuana Marijuana
Sincerely...
https://tinyurl.com/27hhxba4
America's newspaper of record:
 Leftists Worried Elon Musk Will Turn Twitter Into A Place Where Terrible People Post Bad Opinions And Fight With Each Other All The Time.
There is an obvious solution: Don't use Google. Seriously.
 Google Launches New 'Inclusive Language' Function to Force 'Political Correctness'.
Pauline (aka Pornpimol) Kanchanalak, Part 2.
Thai businesemen's influence-buyer in the White House rewarded the Clinton administration. Now, same influence purchase, different boss.
 Joe Biden and his staff met with Hunter's top business partner at the White House throughout his vice presidency, visitor logs reveal.
But Joe Biden "never" spoke to Hunter about his business dealings. Ever.
(What the heck did they talk about? Crack?)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10746867/Joe-Biden-staff-met-Hunters-business-partner-White-House.html
Every NPC in America carried this article on Monday, apparerntly because readers of NPCs are pretty thick.
How to deactivate your Twitter account.
But wait! If you do that, where will you get your world news and memes?
Read a newspaper? I don't think so!
 https://theverge.com/22227076/twitter-delete-app-how-to-deactivate
THAILAND DRUGS TRAFFICKING
Anti-drug police broke into an apartment in Pattaya, and came back out with the German resident and his pet packages of methamphetamine and crystal meth.
https://www.thaiexaminer.com/thai-news-foreigners/2021/04/26/
