Day: April 24, 2023

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Accelerate repair of more than 300 houses damaged by the storm

Volunteer soldiers repair people’s houses. After more than 300 houses were damaged after a storm hit the area of Ban Mae Pa, Chiang Mai province.

Volunteer soldiers from the 7th Infantry Division change the roof of a house for people in the Ban Mae Pa area. Samoeng Nuea Subdistrict, Samoeng District, Chiang Mai Province The roof of 70 houses was blown away by a summer storm, which is expected to take several days. Because in Samoeng District More than 300 houses were damaged, including Samoeng Nuea Subdistrict and Mae Sap Subdistrict. and Yang Moen Sub-district

Chiang Mai Provincial Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Office Storm damage report especially crops More than 400 rai of chili orchards in Omkoi were damaged, Mae Rim district, 20 rai of cabbage, Chinese lettuce and lettuce plants were damaged, 7 rai of Hang Dong, avocado and 3 rai of lychee.

Source: Thai News Agency

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Summer storm hits Mukdahan Broken car tent – Rim Khong shop is messed up.

Summer storm hits Mukdahan. Houses – tents, used cars are damaged. And the wind still carries a restaurant raft from the Lao side across to Thailand. with 11 Laotian employees

Yesterday (April 23), there was a summer storm, both wind and rain, accompanied by hail that hit the Muang District, Mukdahan Province, causing people to set up shop at the night market. which is the source where people come to shop in the evening Sellers need to hurry up to collect the shop. I’m afraid. Some stores can’t keep it in time. umbrella blown by the wind

The severe storm also caused damage to people’s homes along the Mekong River. The roof floats with the wind. A broken electric pole toppled the road. The glass of a commercial building fell and shattered.

As for the area along Chayangkun Road The shore leaving the city of Mukdahan. Used car tents were badly damaged. The steel roof structure was blown down by the wind and crushed dozens of parked cars.

Then, around 6:00 p.m., the Marine Police found a raft boat from Savannakhet Province, Lao PDR, hit by a summer storm across the Mekong River. came to be stuck in the community of Si Mongkhon Nuea Inside the boat, there were 11 female and male Laotian employees, all of whom were safe.

Asked the staff attached to the raft said that he was a waiter inside the food raft. While preparing to open the shop There was a violent storm. This caused the large rope that was tied to the restaurant raft to break from the anchor on the shore. As a result, the raft was hit by a storm on the Thai side. In which he and his friends were shocked, they could not do anything right, but prayed that the raft would not break. Initially, the officials let the Laotian employees disembark on the Thai side first. because the wind force the raft stuck to the rocks Can’t be dragged back to Laos

Source: Thai News Agency

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Widodo reviews Loh Buaya’s readiness for ASEAN Summit: BPOLBF

Moreover, Labuan Bajo is a (tourist) destination which is highly related to conservation and biodiversity. Labuan Bajo, NTT (ANTARA) – President Joko Widodo’s (Jokowi’s) visit to Loh Buaya on Monday was aimed at ensuring the readiness of the tourist area ahead of the 42nd ASEAN Summit, the Labuan Bajo Flores Tourism Authority (BPOLBF) said.”Mr. President himself ensured the readiness of each (tourist) destination, thus it will be ready to be visited during the Eid al-Fitr holidays and the ASEAN Summit,” the president director of BPOLBF, Shana Fatina, said here on Monday. The summit is scheduled to be held in Labuan Bajo, West Manggarai district, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) province, from May 9 to 11, 2023. Meanwhile, the government has set the joint leave period for the 1444 Hijri Eid Al-Fitr from April 19 to April 25. The Religious Affairs Ministry announced that the Islamic holy day would be observed in Indonesia on April 22 this year. ccording to the BPOLBF president director, the Loh Buaya area, which has been revitalized in the past two years, reflects the government’s commitment to preparing quality conservation tourism at Komodo National Park. “(Conservation tourism is) a tourism that does not only display the natural beauty, but is also full of education and knowledge. Moreover, Labuan Bajo is a (tourist) destination which is highly related to conservation and biodiversity,” she said. During the 42nd ASEAN Summit, delegates will be invited to a tour of the destination, Fatina stated. Some of the 700 delegates attending the summit are expected to visit the tourist area, she informed. “Including media crews, whose number reaches 300 pax,” she added. She said that BPOLBF has prepared 10 help desks at the airport as well as the delegates’ hotels to promote tour packages to various destinations in Labuan Bajo throughout the summit. “Thus, although if they do not have time to tour (in Labuan Bajo) now (during the summit), they can still have enough information to come back and bring their families for traveling (in the future),” she added. The President and his family boarded the Ayana Lako Di’a pinisi an Indonesian traditional sailing vessel originating from South Sulawesi — at Labuan Bajo Port on Monday at 10:25 a.m. Central Indonesian Standard Time (WITA) to sail to Loh Buaya, Komodo National Park. They arrived back at Labuan Bajo Port at 5:09 p.m. WITA and headed to the Meruorah Labuan Bajo Hotel to rest. baca-jugaRelated news: Jokowi checks Labuan Bajo’s readiness for hosting ASEAN SummitRelated news: Local residents urged to support ASEAN Summit in Labuan BajoRelated news: President lands in Labuan Bajo for a visit

Source: Antara News Agency

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S. Korea’s new COVID-19 cases below 10,000

South Korea’s new coronavirus cases fell below 10,000 on Monday due to fewer tests over the weekend as the country is well on track to pre-pandemic normalcy.

The country reported 5,027 cases, including 20 imported cases, bringing the total caseload to 31,083,586, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said.

Monday’s tally fell from 11,834 cases a day earlier but is higher than the 4,946 a week ago. The daily caseload had stayed above 10,000 for the past six days through Sunday.

The country added eight COVID-19 deaths Monday, raising the death toll to 34,427. The number of critically ill patients came to 146, up from 144 a day earlier, the KDCA said.

Last month, South Korea eased most of its virus curbs, including the indoor mask mandate on public transportation.

As a next step, the government plans to reduce the mandatory COVID-19 isolation period to five days from the current seven in May.

Source: Yonhap News Agency

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S. Korea to promulgate laws on relocation of military airports

The South Korean government plans to promulgate a set of special acts later this week to facilitate efforts to relocate military airports in the southern cities of Daegu and Gwangju, the defense ministry said Monday.

The promulgation is set to come Tuesday following their passage through the National Assembly on April 13 and the Cabinet last Tuesday — a move welcomed by the residents who have complained of aircraft noise and concomitant development restrictions.

One of the acts involves a plan to move a military airport and a civilian airport in Daegu, 237 kilometers southeast of Seoul, to an integrated airport to be built in the two nearby counties of Uiseong and Gunwi.

The act entails provisions for the central government’s financial support and other measures to facilitate the construction project, including exemptions from preliminary feasibility studies when necessary.

The land, infrastructure and transport ministry plans to operate a task force to pave the way for the launch of a team, which is stipulated by the act to ensure the efficient management of the project.

The other act aims to relocate a military airport in Gwangju, about 270 kilometers south of the capital.

It forms the legal basis for the central government’s support for the project. The site for the new airport has yet to be determined.

Source: Yonhap News Agency

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(LEAD) S. Korea puts Japan back on export ‘white list’ after 3 years

South Korea on Monday put Japan back on its “white list” of trusted trading partners, three years after the removal, in a move to improve their bilateral economic and diplomatic relationship, the industry ministry said.

The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy issued a revision to its public notice on exports and imports of strategic items in the day that calls for restoring Japan’s fast-track trade status, allowing companies that export strategic items to Japan to enjoy a shorter period of time for review and simpler paperwork.

The move raised the number of nations given preferential treatment in trade to 29, which includes the United States, France and Britain, it added.

In 2019, South Korea took Japan off its white list following Tokyo’s removal of Seoul from its list in an apparent retaliation against the South Korean Supreme Court rulings the previous year that ordered two Japanese companies to pay compensation to Korean forced labor victims during Japan’s 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.

Last month, however, the two sides vowed the reinstatement after South Korea announced plans to compensate the victims without asking Japan for contributions.

Japan has not yet given details about when South Korea will return to its trade white list, though South Korean officials said Tokyo needs longer domestic procedures for a necessary law revision.

Director-level officials from Seoul and Tokyo will begin another round of trade talks in Tokyo on Monday following a meeting in Seoul last week.

Japan lifted curbs on exports to Seoul of three materials last month — fluorinated polyimide, photoresist and hydrogen fluoride — that are critical for the production of semiconductors and displays, which had been in place since 2019.

Under the revised public notice, South Korea also announced a decision to tighten export controls on major industry items against Russia and Belarus in response to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, which will take effect Friday.

The Seoul government added 741 more items related to semiconductors, chemicals, steel, autos, machinery, quantum computers and other things to the list of items that are banned from shipping to Russia and Belarus, significantly raising the total number of items on the list to 798, according to the ministry.

The move came as the chances are high for those items to be used by importing nations for weapons and military purposes, the ministry said, adding that it will make a case-by-case review for “exceptional cases” for shipments to the two nations.

Source: Yonhap News Agency

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