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Month: January 2021

Health

829 new Covid cases nationwide, 22 in Bangkok

THAILAND logged a total of 829 new Covid-19 cases today (Jan. 31) with 22 patients found in Bangkok yesterday and of these six were restaurant workers and one a three-year-old boy, Sanook.com reported. The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration’s (CCSA’s) assistant spokeswoman Dr. Phanprapha Yongtrakul said at 11.30 a.m. this morning that the new cases […]

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Analysis Health

WHO: Global pandemic ‘will not end’ if vaccine nationalism takes hold

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the pandemic may not end if countries engage in a growing trend of vaccine nationalism. One year since the WHO declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said “we will not end the pandemic anywhere until we end it everywhere”. Dr Tedros’ […]

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Life

I just finished ‘digital detox’; can you?

Switching off was the easy part and I’m seriously glad I did it. But the withdrawals were strong. Lisa Main reports. WHY I DID IT By December just glancing at the Zoom icon on my iphone was like 😫. I took great pleasure in deleting it off all of my devices over the holidays. I […]

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Life World News

Jilted wife cuts off husbands penis

(Beijing) A jealous wife in China chopped off her cheating husband’s penis as he slept, then snuck into his hospital room after he had it sewn back on — and hacked it off again and tossed it out the window. Police said “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” Fan Lung, a dad of […]

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Life

Why having a tiff with your partner is normal

George Clooney and his wife Amal have never had an argument. How can that be true? Kerry Parnell believes it’s pretty healthy to bicker with your partner here and there. Who in the world never fights with their partner? George Clooney, apparently, who says he and Amal have never had an argument. Let that statement […]

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Life

How much sex should you be having?

How many times should you be getting it on every week? The answer might be more complicated than you think. Sex guru Nadia Bokody reports. I’m sitting awake in bed, sobbing in lingerie I just maxed my credit card out on. “I said I was tired. Why are you making such a big deal out […]

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Business

Expert reveals when you should buy Bitcoin

Bitcoin surged to a record high this week, sparking a frenzy for the cryptocurrency. But one expert has warned about its “shaky ground”. After surging past $42,000 per coin for the first time in history, Bitcoin has started to pull back. Will the world’s most popular cryptocurrency plummet like it did in the past or […]

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World News

Internet cut to hunger-striking farmers in Delhi

India has suspended mobile internet services in three areas around the capital, Delhi, where farmers are staging a hunger strike in protest at new agriculture laws. The government said the shutdown would continue until Sunday night to “maintain public safety”. Tens of thousands of protesting farmers have been camped out on Delhi’s outskirts for more […]

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Life World News

Woman ‘kept mother’s body in freezer for 10 years’

(Tokyo) Police in Japan have arrested a woman after the body of her dead mother was discovered in a freezer in her flat. Yumi Yoshino, 48, said that she found her mother dead and hid the body 10 years ago because she “didn’t want to move out” of the Tokyo home they shared, local media […]

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Business

Toyota reclaims crown as world’s biggest car company

  Toyota was the world’s best-selling carmaker in 2020, taking back the title from Volkswagen Group in a year hit by the coronavirus crisis. The Japanese giant reclaimed the crown thanks to a sales decline that was less severe than its arch-rival during the global pandemic. Toyota sales were down 11 percent in 2020, to […]

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