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Mass pro-democracy rally ends peacefully outside police HQ
Online Reporters, Published on 18/11/2020
» Anti-government protesters called off a mass rally outside Bangkok's Ratchaprasong intersection around 8.30pm on Wednesday despite anger over the rejection of the so-called "people's draft" of amendments to the constitution.
MRTA puts Orange Line extension bids on hold
News, Supoj Wancharoen, Published on 18/11/2020
» The Mass Rapid Transit Authority of Thailand (MRTA) has indefinitely postponed considering bids for construction of the subway system's Orange Line western extension.
UN recruits 40 airlines to deliver vaccine to poorest states
Bloomberg News, Published on 18/11/2020
» United Nations humanitarian relief agency Unicef is looking to recruit some of the airline industry’s biggest operators to help distribute a coronavirus vaccine to the world’s poorest nations.
US, Europe plan vaccination schemes as second virus wave builds
AFP, Published on 18/11/2020
» WASHINGTON - Plans for vaccination programmes began taking shape in Europe and the United States following recent breakthroughs, but surging coronavirus caseloads prompted gruelling new restrictions, with Austria taking the unpopular step Tuesday of closing schools and shops.
HK and China: One country, one system
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 18/11/2020
» One Hong Kong lawmaker, Claudia Mo, said it was "the death-knell of Hong Kong's democracy fight". But she was part of it: one of the 15 remaining pro-democracy members of the Legislative Council (Legco) who resigned last Thursday in protest at the expulsion of four other democratically elected members of the pseudo-parliament.
Trends likely to continue in the second half of the NFL season
Sports, Dave Wiggins, Published on 18/11/2020
» Wow, it seems like the NFL season just got started, and here we have passed the midway mark of the 2020 campaign already.
Poorer nations face vaccine wait as West locks down supply
AFP, Published on 18/11/2020
» PARIS: Hailed this week as a pandemic game-changer, the new Covid-19 vaccine offered countries that had pre-ordered doses a potential escape from a cycle of lockdowns and new waves of sickness and death.