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Postponed Tokyo Olympics to cost extra $2.4 billion
AFP, Published on 04/12/2020
» TOKYO - The coronavirus-delayed Tokyo Olympics will cost at least an extra $2.4 billion, organisers said Friday, with the unprecedented postponement and a raft of pandemic health measures ballooning an already outsized budget.
French Vendee skipper Escoffier 'safe and sound' after rescue
AFP, Published on 01/12/2020
» CAPE TOWN - French Vendee Globe yachtsman Kevin Escoffier was reported "safe and sound" after being rescued from the Atlantic off the Cape of Good Hope by rival skipper Jean Le Cam in his monohull Hubert on Tuesday.
Rescue underway in Vendee Globe as skipper abandons sinking boat
AFP, Published on 01/12/2020
» AT SEA - French skipper Kevin Escoffier abandoned his PRB yacht during the Vendee Globe on Monday and was in a life raft awaiting veteran rival skipper Jean Le Cam to pick him up.
Virus swells Montreal's homeless camps as winter comes
AFP, Published on 22/11/2020
» MONTREAL - All along the edges of a long boulevard in Montreal stretches an unprecedented sight in this city: hundreds of tents that have sprung up in a brand new homeless camp since the end of summer, with many of the people thrown out of their homes because of the pandemic.
Eta lashes Cuba, aims for Florida
AFP, Published on 09/11/2020
» HAVANA - Tropical storm Eta brought strong winds and torrential rain to Cuba on Sunday after having cut a destructive and deadly path through parts of Central America and southern Mexico.
North, Isan, South brace for floods
News, Post Reporters, Published on 17/10/2020
» Nakhon Ratchasima, provinces in the Northeast and the South of Thailand are facing floods as a storm approaches.
Endless din hinders rather than helps
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 12/10/2020
» This Wednesday is touted to be another day of mass protest by the "reincarnated" anti-establishment Khana Ratsadorn group, formerly known as the Free Youth Movement, Free People Movement and, lately, the United Front of Thammasat and Demonstration.
Labour strikes against the algorithm
Business, William Hicks, Published on 07/09/2020
» Not long ago the streets of Bangkok were near empty -- save for a bustling network of green-, pink- or yellow-vested delivery drivers shepherding food across a shuttered city to the millions trapped indoors fearing an accelerating viral outbreak.
Ship that oozed oil off Mauritius coast splits in two
AFP, Published on 16/08/2020
» PORT LOUIS, Mauritius: A ship that has leaked more than 1,000 tonnes of oil in pristine waters off the coast of Mauritius has split in two.
Mekong nations pressed to share data as water level falls to new low
Reuters, Published on 07/08/2020
» The inter-governmental Mekong River Commission on Friday urged China and Southeast Asian countries to share more data on hydropower dam operations, as water flow in the Mekong hit record low levels for a second consecutive year.