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Day: November 30, 2020

Business

China’s tariffs slam door shut on Australian wine’s biggest export market

By Michelle Toh, CNN Business Hong Kong: Australia’s winemakers are scrambling to find new buyers around the world after China imposed hefty tariffs on the industry, effectively cutting it off from its most important export market. Beijing’s decision last week to impose tariffs of up to 212% on Australian wine imports has endangered business with […]

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Local News

Solo protest at police station as students unveil new campaign

AN ANONYMOUS man came at Lumpini police station today (Nov. 30) to protest against enforcing the law against students fighting for democracy while “bad students” announced a campaign to wear casual clothes to school, Thai Rath newspaper reported. The solo protester, around 45-50 years of age and wearing a white T-shirt,  navy blue shorts and […]

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Life

Warning issued against deadly grilled blue-ringed octopus 

THE Department of Marine and Coastal Resources issued a urgent warning to the public to avoid buying and consuming the venomous blue-ringed octopus as even grilling does not destroy its poison with this coming after a vendor was found selling its skewered meat, Thai Rath newspaper reported today (Nov. 30, 2020). The department posted the […]

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Health

8 caught sneaking into Chiang Rai as 2 new Covid-19 cases emerge

EIGHT Thais were arrested in Chiang Rai province today (Nov. 30) just as they were sneaking back home from Myanmar via natural routes soon after two Thai women who are friends of a superspreader in Chiang Mai also tested positive for Covid-19, Amarin TV reported. All eight suspects were working at Myanmar’s Tachileik district, just […]

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