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'Let's go home': Thai hostage couple has emotional reunion
Reuters, Published on 01/12/2023
» KHON KAEN - Natthawaree Mulkan walked through the airport arrival gates and straight into her mother's arms, both crying with joy, meeting for the first time after losing touch for nearly two months when she was taken hostage by Hamas militants on Oct 7.
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Foreign Ministry: Hamas still holds 20 Thai nationals
Reuters, Published on 25/11/2023
» Palestinian militant group Hamas is still holding 20 Thai nationals after having freed 10 from Gaza, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Saturday, following a deal during the first truce of a seven-week war.
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Ex-CIA analyst recounts torture in secret Thai prison
Reuters, Published on 20/04/2022
» WASHINGTON: In the 2012 Hollywood hit “Zero Dark Thirty,” a red-haired Central Intelligence Agency analyst played by Jessica Chastain travels to a secret CIA prison and watches a colleague waterboard a screaming Al Qaeda suspect, then lock him in a box a little bigger than a mini-fridge, to make him talk.
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Govt plans to reopen borders to foreign workers amid shortage
Reuters, Published on 09/11/2021
» Thailand plans to reopen its borders to workers from neighbouring Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos, a government official said on Tuesday, in a bid to ease a labour shortage that is hurting the export and tourism-dependent economy.
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Govt delays plan to re-open cities to tourists until Nov
Reuters, Published on 22/09/2021
» The government has pushed back plans to re-open Bangkok and some other major cities to foreign arrivals until November, due to vaccination rates falling short of targets, a senior official said on Wednesday.
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Elderly lag behind in Covid vaccination drive, data show
Reuters, Published on 31/08/2021
» Just two weeks before her long-awaited vaccine appointment in Bangkok, Anyamanee Puttaraksa's 62-year-old mother became feverish. Three days later, her mother tested positive for Covid-19. Four hours afterward, she died.
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Thailand in talks to buy vaccines from Europe
Reuters, Published on 26/08/2021
» The government is in talks with European countries to purchase millions of doses of Covid-19 vaccines, a health official said on Thursday, as the country tries to speed up its inoculation rollout to contain a wave of infections.
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Govt urges pregnant women to get vaccinated
Reuters, Published on 25/08/2021
» The government’s Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) on Wednesday called on pregnant women in the country to get vaccinated against Covid-19, citing a higher risk of deaths among those who become infected with the coronavirus.
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In Bangkok, an army of volunteers fights coronavirus
Reuters, Published on 17/08/2021
» Monk Phrompong Kaino, 33, works around the clock providing free Covid-19 swab tests for vulnerable people in high-risk Bangkok communities, part of a project by his temple that has reached more than 2,000 people in just over a month.
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Govt confirms human trials to begin on Covid shots via nasal spray
Reuters, Published on 11/08/2021
» Two coronavirus vaccines administered using a nasal spray being developed in Thailand are due to start human trials by the end of this year, after promising results in trials involving mice, a government official said on Wednesday.
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