In 2019, the value of the Thailand medical device market rose to 176 billion baht (US$6 billion) – a 70 percent increase in the past decade, according to official figures from Thailand’s Office of Industrial Economics. Thailand ranks ahead of Singapore as the most important importer and exporter of such products in the ten-member Associations of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), …

The Summer is still going on and getting even hotter in north of Thailand, according to the Thailand Meteorological Department forecast. The southerly and southeasterly winds blow with humidity from the South China Sea into the lower North, the Northeast, the Central and the East regions. Thundershowers with gusty winds are likely over upper Thailand. People have been advised to …

With the whole planet suffering in various ways due to the novel pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), people are beginning to understand issues that might have been previously ignored. In addition to healthcare workers, recognition and gratitude must be extended to unsung heroes such as supermarket workers, security guards and delivery riders who, given the risks involved, continue to …

The Enhanced Community Quarantine made the local food business Aling Kika’s Food Products to stopped selling its famous rice cakes, but surprisingly it continues to make its popular bibingka. The rice cakes are for people in Cainta who helped to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the campaign and in relief efforts for those affected by widespread work stoppages and …

KOTA KINABALU – A story of a Malaysian Man walking three days from Kota Kinabalu to his hometown of Kota Marudu (70km distance) with a dog is getting the attention of the netizens. Alixson Mangundok, 34, came back from Japan last March 25. Fearing he might be infected and carrying the virus, he chose to walk and avoid any public …

TAIPEI – The Taiwanese doctor who condemns Malaysia’s effort on handling the Covid-19 pandemic apologises in Facebook after receiving public backlash. “I understand that the Chinese in Malaysia have the habit of wearing face masks and that the pandemic situation in Malaysia is much better controlled than European and American countries, where the people there do not believe in wearing …

The Riau provincial administration pay attention to medical workers who treats patients contracting the novel coronavirus disease or COVID-19. The Riau administration provided an allowance of Rp2 million per day for each of them. “They will be given an incentive of Rp2 million per day,” said the Secretary of Riau administration, Yan Prana Jaya, in a written statement in Pekanbaru …

The city’s underprivileged residents will receive staple foodstuffs or ‘sembako’ that distributed by the Jakarta administration. This step taken by the Jakarta administration to help them that are financially-affected by the regulations concerning the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The distribution of staple foodstuffs will be completed before the city’s large-scale social restriction (PSBB) protocol is imposed on Friday. “The Jakarta administration …

Charoen Pokphand Group announced plans to build a factory specifically to start the production of medical masks for medical personnel and Thai citizens few weeks ago during the widespread of pandemic. CP has now bought an automatic medical mask machine from China with the ability to produce 50,000 medical masks per day. In the past 3 weeks, the CP group …

According to the Thai cabinet meeting of the injection fund for the Corona virus victims for the third phase of 2020. The injection is amounted 1.9 billion THB and is aimed to the first few priority of those who face with the impact first. PM Prayut Chan-o-cha revealed that the third phase of economic stimulus measures consists of three emergency …