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Govt to push artificial insemination to boost birth rate
Published on 13/02/2024
» CHIANG MAI: The Ministry of Public Health will soon announce measures to promote artificial insemination among people wanting to be parents.
Asteroid dust caused 15-year winter that killed dinosaurs
Gary Boyle, Published on 31/10/2023
» Around 66 million years ago, an asteroid bigger than Mount Everest smashed into Earth, killing off three quarters of all life on the planet -- including the dinosaurs.
Chiang Mai tourism hit by smog
Gary Boyle, Published on 24/04/2023
» Severe haze pollution has not only posed a health hazard to residents in Chiang Mai, but also hit tourism.
City braces for sixth wave with spike in infections
Gary Boyle, Published on 25/07/2022
» Bangkok is bracing for a sixth wave of Covid-19, as Covid cases in the capital hit over 10,000 new cases per day, threatening the city's public health system.
'Post-pandemic day' this Friday
Gary Boyle, Published on 28/06/2022
» The Public Health Ministry will declare the country to be in a post-pandemic Covid-19 stage on Friday, as the disease will likely cause only small and medium clusters from now.
Tourists delay foreign trips
Gary Boyle, Published on 18/04/2022
» Surging costs and a fragile economy are forcing travellers to delay their trips abroad, says the Thai Travel Agents Association (TTAA).
Deltacron on the move
Gary Boyle, Published on 24/03/2022
» Thailand on Wednesday reported 73 cases of the Deltacron variant, a hybrid of the Delta and Omicron strains of the new coronavirus, and all patients had fully recovered.
The Omicron factor
Gary Boyle, Published on 13/12/2021
» Since the new Omicron strain was designated a variant of concern by the World Health Organization on Nov 26, many countries have stopped loosening Covid-19 curbs.
Concerns over vaccine
Gregory Morrissey, Published on 14/01/2021
» The Ministry of Public Health has requested further information about the vaccine it has ordered from China following a report it might not be as effective as first thought.
Travel bubble scheme 'asking for trouble'
Gary Boyle, Published on 29/06/2020
» The government would be "asking for trouble" if it adopted the travel bubbles and re-introduced medical tourism too soon, warned Thira Woratanarat, an epidemiologist at Chulalongkorn University.