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Malawi rolls out ground-breaking malaria vaccine
AFP, Published on 23/04/2019
» LILONGWE (MALAWI) - Malawi on Tuesday rolled out the world's first licensed malaria vaccine in a landmark campaign against a disease that each year kills hundreds of thousands of people, especially African children.
N.Korea's Kim, Putin to hold first talks in Russia's Far East
AFP, Published on 23/04/2019
» MOSCOW - Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin will meet in Russia's Far East on Thursday, the Kremlin said, as the North Korean leader looks to rebuild ties with an old ally amid a standoff with the United States.
Race on to cover Notre-Dame as rainclouds gather over Paris
AFP, Published on 23/04/2019
» PARIS - Climbers were brought in on Tuesday to unfurl protective tarpaulins over Notre-Dame to protect it from the rain after the Parisian cathedral was left badly damaged and open to the elements by fire last week.
EC accuses Thanathorn of breaching MP rules
Online Reporters, Published on 23/04/2019
» The Election Commission has accused Future Forward leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit of violating MP rules on media shareholding.
At least 50 feared killed by landslide at Myanmar jade mine
AFP, Published on 23/04/2019
» YANGON: At least 50 people were feared dead after a landslide in northern Myanmar engulfed jade miners while they were sleeping, local police said on Tuesday, the latest deadly accident in a notoriously dangerous industry.
One million species risk extinction due to humans: draft UN report
AFP, Published on 23/04/2019
» PARIS - Up to one million species face extinction due to human influence, according to a draft UN report obtained by AFP that painstakingly catalogues how humanity has undermined the natural resources upon which its very survival depends.
Thaksin gets three years in Exim Bank case
Online Reporters, Published on 23/04/2019
» The Supreme Court for politicians has sentenced Thaksin Shinawatra in absentia to three years in prison for having conflict of interest in the Exim Bank loan case.
Harsh new penalties for forced labour, abuse of employees
Online Reporters, Published on 23/04/2019
» The National Legislative Assembly has approved harsher punishments for employer, ranging from a maximum 400,000 baht fine to the death penalty, for use of forced labour, abuse or torture leading to a worker's death.
Hunted seastead couple 'traced to Tarutao island'
Achadthaya Chuenniran, Published on 23/04/2019
» PHUKET: The US-Thai couple who built and anchored a seastead floating home off Phuket were last traced to Tarutao island, and the full weight of the law awaits them, authorities said on Tuesday.
New quake strikes as Philippines hunts for survivors
AFP, Published on 23/04/2019
» PORAC, Philippines: Philippine rescuers were scrambling Tuesday to reach some two dozen people feared buried under a building near Manila that collapsed a day earlier in a strong earthquake, as a powerful new tremor hit the nation.