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Drop in Chinese tourists hurts Thailand’s economy – BBC News
Thailand’s economy was hit particularly hard by the Covid pandemic, in part due to its reliance on a huge tourism industry.
Chinese tourists in particular made up one quarter of Thailand’s 40 million foreign visitors in 2019.
There was hope that 2023 would see tourist numbers bounce back to pre-Covid levels – but this has not been the case.
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Thousands are expected to attend the world’s biggest gaming expo this weekend in Cologne, as Gamescom 2026 gets underway.
Tech Now’s Laura Cress takes a look at what’s in store for fans – including the latest instalment in Silent Hill franchise.
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Social media giant Meta has agreed to a $18bn (£13.3bn) settlement with US states and territories to resolve claims that Facebook and Instagram harmed children.
A California judge approved the settlement, which Meta must pay to 48 states, plus the District of Columbia and three US territories, marking the company’s largest payment over child safety litigation to date.
Meta will also implement a host of changes aimed at better protecting kids online, which the states had demanded, including default daily time limits and night-time blocks.
Meta has denied any wrongdoing as part of the settlement and said on Wednesday that the payment it agreed to “will be distributed in annual instalments over a 10-year period”.
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Convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal Ratko Mladić has died in a UN prison at The Hague aged 84.
He was jailed for life in 2017 for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity during the wars in the former Yugoslavia in 1992-95.
BBC News explores the details of who Ratko Mladić was, what his crimes were, and what unfolded at his trial.
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Prime Minister Andy Burnham has told the BBC that PC Andrew Harper’s killers will remain behind bars as he announces changes to the early release scheme aimed at easing prison overcrowding.
In an exclusive interview with BBC Breakfast, Burnham said anyone convicted of manslaughter will be excluded from changes brought in under the Sentencing Act, which would have made the killers eligible for early release.
Burnham said extra prison spaces would be created by deporting “hundreds” of foreign prisoners and releasing some inmates serving indefinite sentences.
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Twenty-seven people have been killed and almost 400 evacuated after a Russian strike hit a warehouse near Kyiv, triggering a fire and a series of explosions.
Regional governor Tymur Tkachenko said a further 42 people, including four children, were injured after the Russian drone strike in the Bucha district.
An investigation has been launched into whether ammunition was being stored at the site, where search and rescue operations were ongoing early on Saturday.
Russia’s Ministry of Defence said in a statement that its forces had targeted “an ammunition depot” in the Kyiv region village of Myla, which stores “components and launch boosters for FP-1/FP-2 long-range unmanned aerial vehicles”.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed his condolences to the families of the victims of the strike, saying that more than 300 emergency respondents had been deployed to the strike area.
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@narfer
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
Thailand isn't missing anything.
@knowledgeforyou2024
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
love Thailand land of happy ❤❤🎉🎉
@larry-notthecableguy
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
With the new thinking of taxing expats living in the kingdom is going to kick people out.
@andrewkang4232
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
Thai’s treatment to Asian tourist is a big problem. They only worship the westerners. But they have forgotten they are Asian as well.
@inquisitvem6723
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
$$$ trumps rude and greedy guests.
@alyanton2157
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
Chineses tourists will come back to Thailand 🇹🇭 but Chineses will never leave! when ran out money-making scheme. Its so sad 😭for
Thailand 🇹🇭 people will be free from Chineses communist mindfulness control forever ♾their corrupted king 🤴already sold them out.
@Juy1234
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
Thailand is the land of happiness😂😂😂
@lahipster3172
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
Report on #HuaHinbeach #HuaBin #Thailand #Agoda for cheaper hotel villa home rental rates
@antonkarridian2895
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
Been looking at YouTube videos, and Thailand looks DEAD. Videos have a few white and Indian tourists or expats. But, very few Chinese. And, the emphasis on Chinese is because they spend a lot of money too. And, Thailand has gotten expensive compared to pre Covid.
@swisstrader
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
So is there any truth to the rumors about kidney being taken? Seems pretty far fetched
@sochettrachou6230
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
No cuz more and more Chinese start flocking in Malaysia Vietnam and Cambodia instead now
@CaptainKremmen
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
I visited a gorgeous small Thai island a few months ago and asked a local how things have been going. The reply: "Great! No Chinese tourists!" Not everyone just wants to maximise money.
@paypay7362
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
自国の産業を育てることに集中すべきだ。バンコク中心地だけ発展し格差が深刻だ。外国に頼りすぎると成長は止まる
@sematoghem
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
แก้ปัญหา AMA69X ก่อนดีไหม…
@ziezcogslaw8643
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
Thats ok, more russians and arabs just keep coming.
@EnglishShanghai
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
Give the Chinese travelers the free visas they'll be back gradually. EVERY thing takes time to grow.
@zzzzzsleeping
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
The Philippines has the most beautiful islands in the world but the Filipinos don't want
the Chinese in their islands.
@DrBilalHussain
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
Lol! Now they have to rely on such people for money!
@ericsonf5918
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
Its fine, some of those tourist are chinese spies and trying to gather information they can manufacture from their country. At the end, Thailand will end up losing their original tech and manufacturing, like they are doing in US. REALTALK
@lz4737
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
Only if more British could do their part and visit Thailand more, and help the locals to recover.
@fredrikbergquist5734
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
Doesn’t Arabs consist a big tourist group? And Indians? Thailand today isn’t what it was in the 1980ies. King Bumibol was a wonderful person and his spirit permeated ”the land of smiles”. Today there has been an element of greediness that is in the last decade that wasn’t there before. Maybe it is because of a more secular society. The rules for being an expat living there long term are also whimsical and you don’t know from one day to another what rules apply.
@chasingbirdies2
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
Don’t need them! Chinese tourists trash everything!
@iu6766
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
The problem with Thailand, they put too much trust to chinese.
Word of advice
#nevertrustchina
#nevertrustchinese
@shadowfilm7980
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
Chinese in general don’t really respect the environment. In their home country and also abroad visiting someone else’s country. Countries love taking their money. But there is a price to pay for that.
@mist9965
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
don't think Thailand should rely on tourism and sex…
@antonfernando8409
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
sex industry based economy will never die ,there is always tourists for that.
@chancheehow96
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
Thai colony.! .
.how ignorance
@goonerdoy
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
Much less noisy and dirty and pushy without the Chinese tour groups though….look at the +ves
@joekhatib3798
December 24, 2023 at 2:37 am
Thailand WILL BE BETTER OFF in the long run not having these Chinese roaming around all over your Country! 🤔