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Another year, same blasts
Oped, Editorial, Published on 23/01/2024
» Tomorrow, the Lower House Committee on Industry will summon the five ministries responsible to discuss how to improve safety at fireworks factories following reports that a facility in Suphan Buri, where a deadly blast that killed 23 people occurred last Wednesday, may have had 500 kilogrammes of explosive materials stored inside.
Puerto Rican hurricane sparks studies in the forest
News, BY STEPHEN LONG, Published on 11/08/2018
» When I visited El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico, six months after Hurricane Maria, the roadside debris still hadn't been removed. Power to many rural areas hadn't been restored. Many people had left the island to escape these conditions, and a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine estimates that several thousand people may have died because of the storm.