This week's top stories
Test & Go visitors must make two hotel bookings
Visitors who arrive by air under the Test & Go programme have to book hotel accommodation twice for two mandatory Covid-19 tests, a government spokesman said on Monday.
The spokesman for the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration said if visitors test negative in the first test, they can travel freely until the second test.
More than 23,000 travellers registered for entry under the programme on Tuesday, the first day the suspended travel scheme resumed.
Oil spill hits Rayong coast
Over 2,600 fishermen in Rayong have been affected by the oil spill from an underwater pipeline which leaked crude oil into the Gulf of Thailand.
The leak from the pipeline owned by Star Petroleum Refining Plc, which was first detected last Tuesday, polluted Mae Ramphueng Beach on mainland Rayong.
The exact amount of spilled oil remains unclear, with the refining company saying only that it was between 20,000 and 50,000 litres, after initially saying 400,000 litres.
Phuket taxi driver fined for being rude
A taxi driver has been fined 1,000 baht and instructed to attend a course on good manners for being rude to a visitor from Bangkok he tried to overcharge.
Kevin Phol wanted a taxi to go from a restaurant in tambon Kamala to Patong, a trip the Bolt app quoted at 168 baht.
The local taxi driver, however, asked for 600 baht, leading to an argument.
Cop who killed doctor on zebra crossing told of more charges
A junior policeman charged with running over and killing a woman on a pedestrian crossing while riding his powerful motorbike is now accused of two additional traffic violations.
Police Lance Corporal Norawich Buadok was charged with speeding in an 80 kph zone and unsafe driving, raising the number of counts against him to nine.
He was driving his Ducati at between 108 and 128 kilometres per hour when it struck ophthalmologist Waraluck Supawatjariyakul on Jan 21.
