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California celebrates New Year with marijuana sales
Associated Press, Published on 01/01/2018
» LOS ANGELES: Californians may awaken on New Year's Day to a stronger-than-normal whiff of marijuana as America's cannabis king lights up to celebrate the state's first legal retail pot sales.
Cops to slap Sek with drugs charge
News, Published on 04/01/2018
» Police are poised to bring another charge against embattled rock star "Sek Loso" after he tested positive after a drugs test.
Online help at hand for suicidal cops
News, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 06/01/2018
» The Police General Hospital's Department of Psychiatry and Narcotics yesterday launched a Facebook page dedicated to helping police officers and their family members who fall victim to depression.
It's all in the genes
News, Published on 06/01/2018
» Thai geneticist Vorasuk Shotelersuk was one of five people to win the Newton Award in 2017, receiving £200,000 (8.6 million baht) to sponsor research into the molecular pathology of rare genetic diseases (RGDs) in children.
Every fibre of his being
Business, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 06/01/2018
» Growing up in a family of three sons, the middle child rarely plans what he wants to be when he grows up; he just keeps studying. Sarun Sumriddetchkajorn's parents instilled him with a sense of gratitude, self-reliance and the ability to take care of a family.
Philanthropy at its finest
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 09/01/2018
» When Thailand was wrecked by months of heavy flooding in 2011, over 13 million people were affected. More than 2,300 households were completely destroyed, almost 100,000 homes partly damaged. The deluge killed around 650 people.
Public health budget hike of 13% sought
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 09/01/2018
» The rising cost of medicine and hospital visits has prompted the Ministry of Public Health to propose a public health-care budget of 193 billion baht, up 13% from its present level.
Four dead from rotavirus infection
Online Reporters, Published on 09/01/2018
» Four people have died from acute diarrhoea, including three young children, after being infected with rotavirus, which causes infant enteritis, the Disease Control Department warns.
2017 inflation 2,616% in socialist Venezuela
Reuters, Published on 10/01/2018
» CARACAS: Prices in Venezuela, which is believed to have the world's highest inflation, jumped 2,616% last year, the country's opposition-led National Assembly said, as millions suffer from food and medicine shortages during a severe economic crisis.
DSI urged to probe 'skin care scam'
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 10/01/2018
» A network fighting pyramid schemes yesterday called on the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) to look into a new fraud case involving the sale of "whitening medicine".