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Diplomat in Thailand tests positive for Covid-19 after contact with Hungarian foreign minister

A Hungarian diplomat who lives in Thailand has recently tested positive for Covid-19 in an apparent local transmission.

The 53 year old diplomat had been in close contact with Hungarian Foreign Minister who tested positive for Covid-19 during a visit to Bangkok last week. He arrived in Bangkok, on his way back from Pnom Phenh, and left the following day after his diagnosis. The CCSA says the diplomat is currently asymptomatic and was admitted to the Infectious Diseases Institute in Nonthaburi for monitoring.

In addition to a woman testing positive in Koh Samui, weeks after she’d arrived from France and completed her 14 day quarantine, an asymptomatic Indian man tested…

Update 1:40pm: The woman apologized publicly for attacking the student. She was charged this afternoon with assault and is headed to a court appearance.

A 15-year-old student in Ayutthaya province this morning filed a complaint against a woman who assaulted her for not standing during the 6pm national anthem.

With tensions spreading over a youth-led uprising against the military-backed government, the unidentified student went to the police after the woman, thought to be a food vendor, slapped her Tuesday for not standing when the anthem played at 6pm.

“Stand up. Come here!” the woman, wearing red, says in a video retweeted nearly 150,000 times since yesterday. “What a waste. You’re a student, wearing the student uniform!”

Today at noon, police said they had identified the woman and called her in for questioning, according to Capt. Wuttipat Chuaikid of…

Migrant workers from Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia whose work permits expire next year are being allowed to continue working in Thailand for up to two more years.

Permission for the legally registered migrant workers to stay longer was approved at the weekly cabinet meeting on Tuesday, according to deputy government spokeswoman Rachada Dhnadirek.

She said the decision would benefit about 130,000 such migrant workers around the country but it only relates to those recruited under a labour agreement signed by the respective countries.

Migrant workers who complete four years of employment here in December next year would normally be required to return to their home countries before being being allowed to re-apply for…

Parents of children allegedly abused by teachers at the Sarasas Witaed Ratchapruek school in Nonthaburi, a suburb outside Bangkok, are seeking compensation. A lawyer representing the parents made a post on Facebook saying that a group of 20 parents are seeking more than 120 million baht in damages. The parents have a meeting with the attorney general today, according to Thai media.

Reports of alleged abuse at the Sarasas private school stemmed from incidents caught on classroom surveillance camera footage showing 30 year old Ornuma Plodprong, known as “Kru Jum,” abusing kindergarten students. Videos of Kru Jum pushing a student to the floor and dragging another across the classroom were shared on social media. Other reports involving both Kru Jum and other teachers at the school followed.

The Nonthaburi Province Court found Kru Jum guilty of child abuse and assault of a minor. The…

Police said they are examining letters submitted by pro-democracy campaigners to King Vajiralongkorn and vowed to prosecute anyone whose messages “violated the law.”

Maj. Gen. Piya Tawichai, deputy metro police commander, said yesterday they will carefully inspect the contents of four mailboxes containing letters addressed to King Vajiralongkorn that the police hauled off rather than deliver to the palace. The red mailboxes and letters have been at the Chanasongkram Police Station since Sunday night, when thousands of protesters marched from the Democracy Monument to the Grand Palace to deliver their letters to the king. 

Piya said they would file charges over letters found to “violate any laws,” most likely referring to the lese majeste law which punishes royal insult by up to 15 years in prison.

The number of letters was unclear, and many were submitted…