After a Boeing 737-800 crashed in China, killing all 132 passengers on board, Thailand’s aviation officers have urged 5 Thai airways to conduct thorough safety inspections of THEIR Boeing 737-800 plane.
According to the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand, leading home airways, including Nok Air and Thai Lion, must acquire a Certificate of Airworthiness for all operational 737-800s.
China Eastern Airlines and its subsidiaries instantly grounded 223 Boeing 737-800s to bear security inspections before flying once more following the crash of flight MU5735.
Investigators looking the wreckage have found two black packing containers which contain flight data and voice recordings from the cockpit, which will give investigators some clues as to why the plane all of a sudden plunged from cruising altitude.
The Boeing 737-800 is recognized as the workhorse in business aviation and is well-trusted with a great safety document. Not to be confused with the aircraft’s successor, the Boeing 737 Max eight, which has a flight stabilising programme that is stated to have caused the crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia, killing 189 and 157 individuals respectively.
According to Suttipong Kongpool, director-general of CAAT, his organization has asked Nok Air, Thai Lion Air, K-Mile Air, Thai Airways and Thai Summer Airways to conduct a radical inspection of their 26 Boeing 737-800 plane. All operational plane should obtain a Certificate of Airworthiness and instantly notify CAAT in the event that they find any technical issues with the planes,
Thai Airways launched a press release on Friday to notify the public that the airline doesn’t fly any Boeing 737 commercially. The company has four aircraft models in service for the commercial flight that are the Boeing 777, Boeing 787, Airbus 350 and Airbus 320.
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The Finance Ministry will adjust the 2022 forecast for Thailand’s financial growth to give consideration to the rise in each inflation and vitality prices, beginning subsequent month.
According to an unnamed supply, the ministry is anxious about the impression Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could have on abroad arrivals this 12 months.
At the beginning of the year, the ministry had forecast that the financial system would develop by between three.5 and 4.5% this 12 months, projecting average development of 4%. The ministry based its calculations on the expectation that home spending would improve because the Covid-19 state of affairs improved globally. The ministry additionally forecast that non-public consumption would grow by four.5% this yr, that Thailand would welcome 7 million foreign vacationers, and that exports would develop by 3.6%.
In February, Thailand’s exports grew by sixteen.2% compared to the identical time last year, which the commerce minister stated was greater than expected. According to the source, international credit standing company Moody’s will assess Thailand’s score subsequent month. Last year, S&P Global Ratings upheld Thailand’s sovereign credit standing at BBB+, with the American credit standing agency ranking the outlook for the country’s financial system as secure.
The Thai authorities has borrowed considerably through the pandemic – round 1.5 trillion baht over the last 2 years – but the Finance Ministry is confident the nation can nonetheless handle this debt. During the primary 5 months of the fiscal yr 2022, the government collected 911 billion baht in net income, exceeding its goal by 46 billion baht.
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Authorities in the north-eastern province of Surin say they will declare Covid endemic from April 1, adding that they may become the first province in Thailand to do so.
With ติดตั้งโซล่าเซลล์ taking its sweet time to lift restrictions and move to a “living with Covid” approach, Surin goes it alone.
According to a Nation Thailand report, the Surin Information Office confirmed the move on its Facebook web page over the weekend, encouraging all residents to get their booster vaccines in the occasion that they haven’t already carried out so. The provincial administration says Surin has met all the standards for declaring the virus endemic, which includes a dying fee no larger than zero.5%
No greater than 3% of Covid patients require hospitalisation And no less than 70% of the inhabitants have received 2 doses of a Covid-19 vaccine
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Thailand’s Social Security Office has warned that hospitals that refuse to treat Covid sufferers danger being removed from its record of contracted medical facilities.
SSO secretary-general Boonsong, says he’s instructed non-public hospitals to stick to the laws and provide full treatment to members of the social safety fund registered at those hospitals. According to a Bangkok Post report, the SSO has threatened to cancel next year’s contracts with hospitals that turn sufferers away.
The warning comes as 2 patients, who’re both members of the social safety fund, claim they have been refused treatment at personal hospitals. Both patients filed complaints with the SSO.
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Last week, reporters picked up the story of a Vietnamese man who tried to paddle an inflatable boat from Thailand to India to fulfill his spouse. But when the person shared a photo of his spouse, individuals shortly identified that he had been conned.
The photo he shared was of Indian TV actress Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya who has been married since 2016.
It’s unclear if the particular person behind the faux Facebook was scamming the person for financial gain, or if they were simply deceiving him for private reasons. According to reviews in Thai media, the man claimed he met the woman in individual back in 2019 while he was in India and that she shared her Facebook account with him. He said they didn’t discuss for 2 years, and he determined to paddle to India to see her.
The 37-year-old man spent 18 days in an inflatable boat, only making it 80 kilometres of the 2,500-kilometre journey earlier than the navy rescued him. He had no map, compass, or GPS to navigate him.
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An explosion on an oil tanker on the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok has killed 1 crew member and injured 3.
According to a Thai PBS World report, the explosion occurred yesterday afternoon at the Bangchak depot in the district of Phra Khanong. The Ampar eight Bangkok, which was carrying around 3 million litres of crude oil, was mooring when the explosion occurred.
Police say sparks erupted in the anchor room previous to the explosion, which resulted in a hearth that was confined to that room. A crew member who was in the room at the time has died and three others were injured. Another 12 crew members escaped uninjured.
Following the explosion, the tanker travelled about 5 kilometres from the Bangchak depot, anchoring close to Phra Chulachomklao Fort in the central province of Samut Prakan, where it took firefighters an hour to extinguish the blaze, using chemical foam and water. Several different vessels have been placed on standby with booms, in the event of a crude oil leak into the river.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Transport Minister, Atthasit, has ordered the Marine Department to type an investigating committee and to forestall the vessel from getting used till a probe into the accident has been concluded.
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It’s durian season in Thailand, and the government is reminding farmers and vendors that in the occasion that they harvest and sell unripe durian, they can go to jail.
That’s because authorities have set a minimum level of dryness of the fruit to find out the freshness of each variety.
Durian is called the “king of fruit” with a pungent odor so sturdy that it’s banned at many resorts and even Bangkok’s MRT mass transit system. While ripe durian has a singular style with a wealthy custard texture, authorities apparently suppose that unripe durians style so dangerous, they may jail you for selling it.
According to Thailand’s Penal Code, promoting unripe durian carries a penalty of up to three years in jail and a fine of up to 60,000 baht as it deceives the buyer in regards to the quality of the fruit.
Those promoting unripe durians also can face charges underneath the Consumer Protection Act which prohibits sellers from providing false information about the product and carries an up to six-month jail sentence and a fine of as a lot as a hundred,000 baht.
The Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry issued a statement reminding farmers and sellers of this legislation, adding that repeat offenders will face harsher penalties..