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Photographs of Bangkok’s 2022 countdown were published by many news agencies alongside images captured in other major cities like Sydney, Hong Kong, Dubai, London and New York.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha applauded the organisers of countdown events as well as partygoers for strictly adhering to Covid-19 prevention measures.

Though many government-sponsored countdown events were cancelled to prevent the spread of Omicron, the private sector was allowed to hold parties to usher in 2022.

The Nation Thailand gathered a list of 2022 New Year countdown events that you can attend on December 31 in Bangkok and other provinces around Thailand.

In our Editor’s choice for the last episode of the year.

Although the government insisted that only some state-organised New Year countdown events had been cancelled over the Omicron situation while private events were allowed to go ahead, a number of organisers have followed in the government’s footsteps and scrapped their scheduled year-end events, a news source said on Wednesday.

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT)’s Phuket chapter held a press conference on Sunday to announce the province’s biggest event of the year – “Amazing Thailand Countdown 2022”. The event will be held on New Year’s Eve at Saphan Hin Park in Muang district.

Bangkok governor Pol General Aswin Kwanmuang has ordered the cancellation of state-sponsored countdown events, though private events can proceed in line with the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA)’s prevention measures.

ICONSIAM announced on Thursday that its “Amazing Thailand Countdown 2022” event on New Year’s Eve will go ahead as planned.

Only open-air restaurants in Bangkok can serve alcoholic beverages during the New Year countdown, governor Aswin Kwanmuang announced on Friday.

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration has come out with safety instructions aimed at event organisers and the public for New Year festivities that draw 1,000 attendees or more:

As the Federal Reserve gets ready to wrap up its final meeting of the year, another report showing inflation running hot sank some of the most-expensive pockets of the stock market.