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Day: March 18, 2022

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Piera Systems and Sensorbee Partner on Highly Accurate Outdoor Air Quality Monitors

Intelligent Particle Sensors (IPS) provide Smart City architects with more accurate data and the ability to collect, analyze, and improve air quality with data-backed insights made simple Sensorbee SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., March 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Piera Systems, Inc. (“Piera”) is pleased to announce a collaboration with Sensorbee AB (“Sensorbee”) in its release of highly […]

Power tariff expected to hit record high

Published by The Bangkok Post The upsurge in global oil prices following the Russia-Ukraine war is expected to cause the power tariff, used to calculate electricity bills, to rise to a record high above 4 baht per kilowatt-hour (unit) for…

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Dept eyes Singapore-Phuket cruise plan

Published by The Bangkok Post The Department of Disease Control (DDC) will discuss with Singapore a new protocol allowing tourists to take cruises to Phuket from the island nation. Tourists will need to show an ATK test taken within 24…

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Plan aims for 50% renewable by 2050

Published by The Bangkok Post The government looks set to create a new national power development plan to increase the proportion of renewable energy used to generate electricity to 50% of all energy types by 2050. Speaking at a seminar…

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Songkran rules in works

Published by The Bangkok Post Songkran rules in works Water fights pose high risk of infection The government will meet on Friday to deliberate ways to curb the spread of Covid-19 during the Songkran holiday period, which includes a proposed…

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Nation ‘ready’ for Deltacron

Published by The Bangkok Post The public health minister says Thailand is prepared to deal with any new variant of the coronavirus including the newly emerged Deltacron that is now being closely watched by the World Health Organization (WHO). Anutin…

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Thailand to buy power from Mekong River dams in Laos

Laos is set to sign agreements with Thailand to sell electricity from three dams being built on the Mekong River, despite opposition to the projects’ construction voiced by villagers and NGOs, according to Lao and Thai sources.The agreements between th…

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Another 3 Thais rescued from Laos’ Golden Triangle

Three Thai citizens who were tricked into working for a corrupt business in Laos’ Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone returned home to Thailand on Thursday, the latest repatriation of Thai citizens trapped in the zone, RFA has learned.The three women…

Medical & Health

WHO Chief: Health ‘Not A Cost, But an Investment’

As COVID-19 infection and death rates begin to increase in some countries that have begun to relax their COVID-related restrictions, the director-general of the World Health Organization issued a reminder of what the pandemic has taught the world so fa…

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Two million capsules of Molnupiravir received by Thai Medical Services

The Thai Department of Medical Services took delivery of two million capsules, or 50,000 courses, of Molnupiravir anti-viral medicine today (Friday) from Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, the joint developers and manufacturers of the COVID-19 treatm…