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B2-billion heroin haul in Northeast
Pattanapong Sripiachai, Published on 30/07/2021
» NAKHON PHANOM: Authorities have seized 600 kilogrammes of heroin worth at least 2 billion baht and arrested a suspected drug courier in the largest haul in the Northeast this year.
Cruising Fraser-Pryce kicks off fan-less Olympic athletics
AFP, Published on 30/07/2021
» TOKYO - Jamaica's history-chasing Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce safely negotiated the first round of the 100m to start the opening day of the athletics at the Tokyo Olympics on Friday.
'Our homeland is burning': Volunteers join Siberia wildfire fight
AFP, Published on 30/07/2021
» BYAS-KYUEL (RUSSIA) - The father and son stood in the forest burning around them, the elder with a shovel in hand, the younger with a plastic bottle filled with gasoline.
'Flawed' scientific papers fueling Covid-19 misinformation
AFP, Published on 30/07/2021
» WASHINGTON: Scientific studies with poor methodology and inaccurate findings are exacerbating a Covid-19 misinformation crisis that is discouraging vaccination and putting lives at risk.
Defrocked US cardinal charged with sexual abuse
AFP, Published on 30/07/2021
» NEW YORK - Former US cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy, court documents showed Thursday, making him the most senior Roman Catholic official in America to face criminal charges in the massive clergy abuse scandal.
Vaccinated Americans are getting angry at holdouts
AFP, Published on 30/07/2021
» WASHINGTON: America's latest coronavirus wave, driven by the hyper-contagious Delta variant, has left vaccinated people seething at the unvaccinated for prolonging the pandemic and ensuring the return of restrictions rather than the carefree summer they were promised.
US charges Nikola founder with fraud
AFP, Published on 30/07/2021
» NEW YORK: US officials on Thursday charged Nikola founder and former executive chairman Trevor Milton with "brazenly" defrauding investors through a litany of false claims about the company's electric vehicles.
Thai Polo win British Open Gold Cup
Sports, Published on 30/07/2021
» The Gold Cup for the British Open Polo Championship inaugurated in 1956 represents the heritage, tradition and competition of the sport.
Correcting the pandemic policy tack
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 30/07/2021
» That Thailand's coronavirus pandemic has been grossly mismanaged is self-evident. Infection rates have soared to new highs this month while vaccine availability and access remain shoddy and abysmal. The overstretched healthcare system is creaking under growing demand, while several scenes so far of Covid-afflicted people being left to die on the streets have shaken the country's collective morale and elicited soul-searching questions about how Thailand has managed to reach this dire juncture.
Wilful blindness
Oped, Postbag, Published on 30/07/2021
» Re: "New tactics to help migrant workers," (Opinion, July 28).