Thailand News Today | Polishing the Area Quarantine, protesters moved to prison | March10

Ministers are meeting in Phuket today to discuss the details of the new area quarantine, the Thai PM anoints the media scrum by spraying hand sanitiser at them…. or something, and the north and north east of Thailand today are facing very poor air quality, Chiang Mai getting the award for having the worst air quality in the world today courtesy of IQ Air.

In what the US Department of Justice describes as a “massive scheme” to defraud the US Navy, a Thai woman who oversaw the foreign defense contractor Glenn Defense Marine Asia office in Thailand is facing charges for involvement in submitting false price quotes, claims and invoices to the US Navy which all added up to more than $5 million USD. She was extradited from Thailand to appear in a court in San Diego, California next Monday.

A number of tourism players and officials, including the Tourism and Sports Minister , are…