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Blasts hit Yemen's Aden airport as new government arrives
AFP, Published on 30/12/2020
» ADEN - Explosions rocked Yemen's Aden airport on Wednesday shortly after the arrival of a plane carrying the new unity government, with the information minister accusing Iran-backed Huthi rebels of the "cowardly" attack.
Women gold panners are rare winners in Covid-hit economy
Reuters, Published on 30/12/2020
» NARATHIWAT: As the yellowish mud swirls away in the waters of the Sai Buri river, Sunisa Srisuwanno lifts her wooden pan with a cluster of gleaming specks caught in the centre.
EU leaders sign Brexit deal as UK MPs debate ratification
AFP, Published on 30/12/2020
» LONDON: EU leaders signed their post-Brexit trade deal with Britain and dispatched it to London on an RAF jet Wednesday, setting their seal on a drawn-out divorce just hours before the UK brings its half-century European experiment to an end.
21 more staff at Bangkok karaoke shop found to have Covid
Online Reporters, Published on 30/12/2020
» Twenty-one more employees of a karaoke shop in Bangkok visited by an infected person from Nonthaburi province have tested positive for Covid-19.
Thanathorn's mother accused of forest encroachment
Online Reporters, Published on 30/12/2020
» The chief of the Royal Forest Department on Wednesday told police that the mother of Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, former leader of the dissolved Future Forward Party, illegally occupies about 3,000 rai of forest land in Ratchaburi province.
Israel gives hero's welcome to American spy Jonathan Pollard
AFP, Published on 30/12/2020
» JERUSALEM - Jonathan Pollard, an American jailed in the United States in 1985 for spying for Israel, landed in the Jewish state Wednesday to a hero's welcome led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Singapore begins Covid-19 vaccinations
Reuters, Published on 30/12/2020
» SINGAPORE: Singapore began vaccinating healthcare workers with Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine on Wednesday, kicking off one of Asia's first inoculation programmes against a pandemic that has killed more than 1.7 million people globally.
No fee for changing airline bookings
Online Reporters, Published on 30/12/2020
» Airlines will not charge passengers extra if they change destinations or travel dates of bookings made under the Rao Tiew Duay Kan (We Travel Together) co-payment scheme, following the new Covid-19 outbreak.
Pattaya, rest of Chon Buri's Bang Lamung locked down
Chaiyot Pupattanapong, Published on 30/12/2020
» CHON BURI: Pattaya and the rest of Bang Lamung district has been locked down until further notice to curb a surge in Covid-19 infections, the provincial disease control committee said on Wednesday.
Herbal Covid treatment cleared, vaccine registration opens
Bloomberg News, Published on 30/12/2020
» Health officials said Thailand is ready to register Covid-19 vaccines after separately approving the use of a herbal plant extract to treat early stages of the disease as a pilot program amid a flareup in the coronavirus outbreak across the country.