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Mobile jab units for senior citizens
News, Apichai Sunchindah, Published on 09/06/2021
» The Public Health Ministry launched a pilot project for mobile Covid-19 vaccinations on Tuesday, with an initial target of inoculating 1,200 seniors currently staying at elderly care facilities in the capital.
Lessons from past outbreaks amid the Covid-19 crisis
News, Apichai Sunchindah, Published on 14/03/2020
» As the world faces the Covid-19 pandemic which is increasingly spreading, irrational human behaviour often exacerbates the situation with hysteria and panic adding to widespread havoc. The knock-on effects have seriously affected millions of people and predictions have been made that the world will likely head towards a recession -- if not a depression -- should the disease spread as the pandemonium continues unabated.
Linking Covid-19 and 'Parasite'
News, Apichai Sunchindah, Published on 21/02/2020
» The ongoing outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 or Covid-19, which originated in China over two months ago and has been spreading around the world has claimed at least 2,100 human lives with another 70,000 laboratory-confirmed cases -- mostly in China.
Thailand must boost Asec presence
News, Apichai Sunchindah, Published on 04/09/2019
» During the commemoration of Asean Day earlier last month at the newly inaugurated Asean Secretariat (Asec) building in Jakarta, Indonesia, a poster displaying eye-popping statistics of the organisation's current staff composition shows that there are only four Thais working there. This figure is minuscule compared to those from the other four founding members states of Asean, and even latecomer Vietnam.
Mekong dilemmas need political will to resolve
News, Apichai Sunchindah, Published on 26/07/2019
» Last year, we were saddened by the hazards related to dam failures in the Mekong River basin after one of the saddle dams on the Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy hydro-electric project in Laos collapsed and the large amounts of impounded water then gushed downstream, causing massive inundation and damage to property, crops, livestock, lost livelihoods and some human casualties. The cause of the dam disaster has been attributed to sub-standard construction and unusually high rainfall.
Why the capital needs to get smarter
News, Apichai Sunchindah, Published on 06/02/2019
» Bangkokians have been suffering from serious smog episodes over the past month, with the wearing of face masks becoming the norm. While the root causes of this health-threatening and unpleasant phenomenon are many, one of the culprits is the high number of vehicles plying the city's thoroughfares, and chief among this is the use of private cars.