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Gas cylinder explosion kills man at home used for storage
Online Reporters, Published on 23/05/2024
» A worker was killed when an oxygen cylinder exploded at a two-storey house being used for an oxygen distribution business in Nong Khaem district of Bangkok on Thursday.
US moon lander tips over but is ‘alive and well’
Published on 24/02/2024
» The moon lander Odysseus is “alive and well” but resting on its side a day after its white-knuckle touchdown as the first private spacecraft ever to reach the lunar surface, and the first from the United States since 1972, the company behind the vehicle said.
Planned US execution by nitrogen gas criticised
Published on 03/01/2024
» GENEVA - United Nations experts have called on US authorities not to go ahead with the planned execution of an inmate by nitrogen hypoxia, saying the method may subject him to “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or even torture”.
Bad air, caves and elephants
News, Published on 30/12/2023
» Environmental beat yielded some very diverse stories in 2023.
Gas leak kills 17 in South African slum
AFP, Published on 06/07/2023
» BOKSBURG, South Africa: At least 17 people, including three children, died in a slum near Johannesburg from a leak of toxic gas apparently used for scavenging gold at an abandoned mine, rescue services said Thursday.
Sick kids prompt 'urgent' tube probe
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 25/03/2023
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has ordered the national police chief to urgently investigate how a power plant in Prachin Buri province lost a 25-kilogramme tube containing radioactive caesium-137 after local children reportedly developed symptoms related to respiratory diseases.
Desperate search for oxygen in Myanmar as latest Covid wave hits
AFP, Published on 15/07/2021
» YANGON: Residents across Myanmar's biggest city are defying a military curfew in a desperate search for oxygen to keep their loved ones breathing as a new coronavirus wave crashes over the coup-wracked country.
India's scammers profit from Covid misery
AFP, Published on 04/06/2021
» NEW DELHI: From fake medicines to fire extinguishers disguised as oxygen cylinders and recycled personal protective equipment, India's coronavirus hell has been lucrative for its ever-inventive army of scammers, with sometimes deadly consequences.
Battling Covid, and government denial, in rural India
AFP, Published on 08/05/2021
» MORADABAD (INDIA) - People in India's most populous state Uttar Pradesh are fighting not just a raging pandemic but also a prickly Hindu nationalist local government that many say is in denial.
India Covid patients flock to makeshift tent for lifesaving oxygen
AFP, Published on 28/04/2021
» GHAZIABAD, India: Himanshu Verma sighed in relief as a mask was fitted over his mother's face, allowing the Covid-19 sufferer to breathe in oxygen as she sat alongside a busy road on the outskirts of New Delhi.