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Explosive matters
Oped, Editorial, Published on 02/08/2023
» A clip of an explosion at a fireworks storage facility in southern Narathiwat province on Saturday has gone viral. It serves as a reminder to society about the clear and present danger of having industrial factories and warehouses in residential neighbourhoods.
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Modern medicine in ancient Rome
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/07/2023
» Doctors are generally held in high regard today, but Romans of the first century were sceptical, even scornful, of medical practitioners, many of whom ministered to ailments they did not understand. Poets especially ridiculed surgeons for being greedy, for taking sexual advantage of patients and, above all, for incompetence.
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'Forever chemicals' deserve far more scrutiny
News, Published on 20/03/2023
» Most of us are walking around with an array of poorly understood chemicals in our bloodstreams and livers -- an unintended consequence of the great 20th century heyday of chemical innovation. They're so stable they've been dubbed "forever chemicals". That means that even if we stop producing them today, some might still course through people's veins centuries from now. We're barely regulating them, even though their harms have become better-known.
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School beats the odds in maths
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 06/11/2022
» It's just after lunchtime, and Dori Montano's fifth-grade maths class is running on a firm schedule.
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Luxury Home Market Posts Its Biggest Decline in a Decade. 'It's Like Crickets.'
Business, Published on 24/09/2022
» When Nancy Lam upgraded in January to a home closer to her child's school in the San Francisco Bay Area, she thought she had plenty of time to list her old house, a five-bedroom modern home in the sought-after suburb of Lafayette.
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Troubled waters
Business, Post Reporters, Published on 12/09/2022
» Industry leaders are alert to heavier rainfall as flooding can deal a further blow to the economy, though many of them do not believe certain business activities will be drowned as happened in 2011.
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Covid and students' mental health
Oped, Published on 22/03/2022
» As all readers know, in late 2019, the Wuhan Health Commission in China reported a cluster of pneumonia cases of unknown aetiology. These were later named the novel coronavirus.
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Positive sentiment predicted for Songkran fest
Business, Dusida Worrachaddejchai, Published on 05/03/2022
» Tourism operators expect improving domestic sentiment for the upcoming Songkran holiday despite a sagging economy and virus outbreak that continue to derail growth in the sector.
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The West must accept the cold reality of Ukraine
News, Published on 16/02/2022
» The buildup of Russian forces near Ukraine's border has led to fears of a new war. But the conflict is hardly new, and nor are Russia's objectives. Ukraine, which has been indirectly controlled or directly repressed by Moscow-based governments for centuries, wants Nato to protect it from future Russian incursions, like the one the Kremlin launched in 2014. But Russian President Vladimir Putin is demanding that Nato promise not to expand into any more Eastern European countries that border Russia (which already shares a border with five Nato members).
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Four-way street
Asia focus, Ismira Lutfia Tisnadibrata, Published on 13/09/2021
» 'China versus the Quad" emerged as the theme of a recent panel discussion about the four-nation grouping and how it could shape its relations with other major players in the Indo-Pacific region.
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