MP s cabinet hopes firming bangkokpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bangkokpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Panel chief opposed to allowing water splashing during Songkran
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published : 10 Mar 2021 at 14:54 People traditionally bathe Buddha images during the Songkran festival. (Bangkok Post file photo)
The Covid-19 operations chief is opposed to allowing water splashing during the Songkran festival and wants only activities that are compatible with use of face masks.
On Tuesday, Culture Minister Itthiphol Kunplome said it was possble the government would allow water splashing as the number of daily new Covid-19 cases was declining.
However, Gen Natthapon Nakpanich, secretary-general of the National Security Council and operations chief of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, said on Wednesday he was against it.
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PPRP win won t affect cabinet rejig
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published : 9 Mar 2021 at 05:00
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The outcome of the Sunday by-election in Nakhon Si Thammarat won t affect the coalition government s unity, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said on Monday.
The by-election in Constituency 3 which was fiercely contested by the ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) and its coalition partner the Democrat Party was held to find a replacement for Thepthai Senpong, a Democrat whose MP status was revoked by the Constitutional Court.
According to an unofficial tally of the votes, PPRP candidate Ayasit Srisuwan won the race with 48,701 votes, while the Democrats candidate and Mr Thepthai s younger brother, Penguin Senpong, received 44,632 votes.
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