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The COVID-19 pandemic in Thailand is a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ( SARS-CoV-2 ). Thailand was the first country to report a case outside China, on 13 January 2020. As of 2 April 2022, the country has reported a cumulative total of 3,684,755 ...
Before the surge, Thailand had recorded about 4,300 COVID-19 cases and just 60 deaths, while Myanmar had registered about 117,000 cases. [53] The 576 cases reported on 20 December was Thailand's biggest daily increase and caused the nation's overall total to climb 13%. [55]
21 August 1979: A train collision at Taling Chan Junction caused 51 deaths and 138 injuries. 27 April 1980: Thai Airways Flight 231 stalled and crashed after entering a thunderstorm on approach to Bangkok, killing 44 out of 53 passengers and crew. 16 November 1980: An explosion at a Royal Thai Army armoury in Dusit District, Bangkok, kills 29 ...
Some damage in Bangkok, Kanchanaburi, and Nakhon Phanom. Reservoir induced earthquake. 1988-11-06: Yunnan (Myanmar–China border) 7.6 & 7.2 V–VI - - M s . Some damage in Chiang Rai. Felt by people in tall buildings in Bangkok. More than 700 killed in China. Two mainshocks separated by 13 minutes; MMI IX and X respectively. 1989-09-30
King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand died at the age of 88 on 13 October 2016 ( B.E. 2559), after a long illness. A year-long period of mourning was subsequently announced. A royal cremation ceremony took place over five days at the end of October 2017. The actual cremation, which was not broadcast on television, was held in the late evening of ...
A 2014 Bangkok Post article said that Mahidol University lecturer Srisombat Chokprajakchat's survey indicated "more than 41% of Thais nationwide want to keep the death penalty on the books, but only 8% want to scrap capital punishment, with the majority undecided...most of those who favoured execution as a legal punishment felt it was the most ...
Capital punishment is retained in law by 55 UN member states or observer states, with 140 having abolished it in law or in practice.The most recent legal executions performed by nations and other entities with criminal law jurisdiction over the people present within its boundaries are listed below.
In September 2018 the two men, including one were convicted and sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment, for the attack. Another suspect was killed by Thai security forces in 2020. [11] Warrants remain outstanding for others.