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Israeli PM reveals ‘day after’ plan
Published on 23/02/2024
» JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has presented his first official “day after” plan for the Gaza Strip once the war there ends, saying Israel will keep security control over all Palestinian areas and make reconstruction of Gaza dependent on its demilitarisation.
Study identifies behaviours that might contribute to Alzheimer's
Life, Published on 20/02/2024
» DEAR DOCTORS: I read that there's a big new study that lists some of the most common risk factors for developing dementia at an early age. I would like to know more about it. How was it done, and what are the risk factors that were identified?
Bid to lift afternoon alcohol sales ban rejected
Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 15/02/2024
» A government panel has rejected a proposal to scrap the long-standing ban on sales of alcoholic beverages between 2pm and 5pm, citing the risk to public health and safety.
Time to address juvenile crimes
Oped, Published on 06/02/2024
» Thailand has witnessed an alarming number of violent crimes committed by children under 15. The most recent murder of a 13-year-old who was stabbed in the neck by a 14-year-old classmate after a school assembly and the murder of Buaphan Tansu by a youth gang in Sa Kaeo leave most perpetrators unsentenced criminally due to their age (under 15) even if the court finds them guilty of the crime. These tragic incidents and lack of criminal sentencing for the offenders have sparked a public outcry echoing through the streets and halls of justice for change.
Root for city workers
Oped, Postbag, Published on 03/02/2024
» Re: "High-perched garbos killed as truck enters underpass", (BP, Jan 24).
Musk judge rules ‘unfathomable’ pay deal made Tesla CEO overpaid
Bloomberg News, Published on 31/01/2024
» DELAWARE - In throwing out Elon Musk's US$55 billion Tesla pay deal, a Delaware judge began her legal opinion with a simple question: “Was the richest person in the world overpaid?”
Alarm sounds over jump in young e-cigarette users
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 31/01/2024
» E-cigarette use among schoolchildren has increased fivefold in seven years with most users beginning the habit while in primary school, according to a recent study.
Neuralink's first human brain implant
Bloomberg News, Published on 30/01/2024
» SAN FRANCISCO - Elon Musk’s Neuralink Corp has performed its first brain implant on a human — a major step toward the billionaire’s goal of one day enabling people to control computers with their minds. And for the first time Musk has given the implant device a name.
Govt issues alert to vulnerable groups
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 26/01/2024
» The Ministry of Public Health is warning more than 300,000 people at high risk from harmful effects caused by ultra-fine PM2.5 dust to exercise greater care because air pollution will worsen from next month until March.
A promising turn in the quest to treat long Covid
News, Published on 25/01/2024
» A study published this week in Science makes a compelling case that people with long Covid have a chronic imbalance in their immune response. The findings don't explain why that immune response is out of whack, and needs confirming in larger studies. Still, this is an important new piece to the vexing puzzle that is long Covid.