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The government is urging full compliance with the ban on water-splashing during the Songkran holidays, to help prevent cases from spiralling out of control after the long break.

Bangkok Post

Revellers flout splash ban

The government is urging full compliance with Covid-19 control measures outlined by the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA), including the ban on water-splashing during the Songkran holidays, to help prevent cases from spiralling out of control after the long break.

Bangkok Post

City campaigns eye street vendors

City governor candidates have turned their campaigns to street vendors, vowing to expand their trading areas and help improve their business prospects.

Bangkok Post

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LRT airport link 'ready by 2029'

The light rail transit (LRT) project linking Bang Na intersection and Suvarnabhumi airport is expected to break ground in 2025 with the first-phase operation to be launched by 2029, according to the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA).

Bangkok Post

North East GPs fear patients aren't safe - and demand Government acts to bring in more doctors amid primary care crisis

Shocking figures show how GPs in the North East are not confident of keeping their patients safe - because rising demand and fewer doctors is leading to an unprecedented - and unsustainable - workload.

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‘Toxic combination’ of issues threaten world’s health and human rights – BMA

Doctors’ group says the pandemic heightened inequalities, with populism and conflict also negatively affecting global healthcare

The Guardian - UK

6 city candidates back welfare fund

Six candidates vying for the Bangkok governorship on Wednesday voiced their support for a proposal to set up a fund for women and impoverished groups, pledging to combine it into their policy platform.

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Boris Johnson abandons plans to ban conversion therapy as campaigners slam U-turn

LGBT rights activists have criticised Johnson and say his decision will 'horrify people right across the country'.

Daily Record

Millions from LGBT community ‘thrown under the bus’ by Johnson

An LGBT campaigner within the Church of England, charity Mind and the British Medical Association have condemned the U-turn on conversion therapy.

The Independent UK

BMA expects 600-700k first-time voters for governor poll

There will be 600,000-700,00 first-time voters accounting for 16% of all eligible voters in the May 22 Bangkok governor election, according to the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA).

Bangkok Post

BMA: No powder smearing, foam parties during Songkran

The Bangkok Communicable Disease Committee has decided to prohibit powder smearing and foam parties during the Songkran festival next month.

Bangkok Post

BMA to decide on Songkran

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) will on Monday consider whether to allow water-splashing activities on Khao San Road during Songkran, as requested by business operators.

Bangkok Post

Nurses ‘short changed’ by Sunak budget says union as household incomes fall

NHS workers ‘having to choose between filling up their cars and feeding their children’

The Independent UK

Lack of GPs to cause 100 practices per year to close says British Medical Association

The British Medical Association (BMA) thinks each practice should close its patient list as each GP sees an average of 45 people a day, the previous safe maximum was 25

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Surgeries shutting as burnt-out doctors see 45 patients a day in 'Uber-isation of GPs'

The British Medical Association warned doctors are so overburdened that every GP practice would have to close its list to new patients due to safety fears

Daily Mirror

Ex-Health Secretary teams up with 'former enemies' to shame Government over GP crisis

Former secretary of state Jeremy Hunt is launching a campaign to shame Boris Johnson over GP crisis even allying with the British Medical Association

Bangkok Post

BMA starts courting Grey Line investors

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is seeking private companies interested in investing in its Grey Line monorail project as construction is due to begin in 2026.

The Independent UK

Doctors who died during pandemic to be remembered

The artist behind a special sculpture said it shows the public are ‘inextricably linked’ with the NHS workers who lost their lives.

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City boosts isolation centres

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has opened more community isolation centres to cope with the surge in cases of Covid-19 in the capital.

Bangkok Post

Renewed push to sort, recycle waste

Despite its reputation of being one of the world's top tourist destinations, litter can literally be seen all over Bangkok.

The Guardian - UK

Ending all Covid restrictions ‘premature and not based on evidence’, says BMA

Council chair says decision not guided by data or made in consultation with health profession

Bangkok Post

BMA boosts bed numbers as cases surge

Bangkok is racing to set up 1,000 more beds in isolation facilities to cope with a spike in Covid-19 cases, City Hall said on Wednesday.

Bangkok Post

Wiroj aims to decentralise power

Wiroj Lakkhanaadisorn, who is running in the Bangkok governor election under the banner of the Move Forward Party (MFP), has vowed to bring change to the capital and tackle problems head-on, with residents' best interests close to his heart.

Bangkok Post

Bhumjaithai to boycott vote on the Green Line

All seven cabinet ministers of the Bhumjaithai Party won't cast votes on a controversial proposal by the Interior Ministry and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) to extend the Green Line concession, the party's leader said on Thursday, reaffirming its protest against the plan.

Tribune News Service

Christopher Bedford resigns as director of the Baltimore Museum of Art

BALTIMORE — Christopher Bedford, the at-times controversial director of the Baltimore Museum of Art who brooked no opposition in his quest to use his institution to achieve social change, has resigned his post and is moving to California.

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