By Holly Ellyatt, CNBC THE HEAD of Russia’s vaccine-development body has claimed that Western research institutions are seeking to “lure” away its scientists to work for them. Alexander Gintsburg alleged that attempts to poach scientists from Russia to work in Europe and the US had not worked. Gintsburg is the head of the Gamaleya National
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Droves of students join white bow anti-dictatorship campaign
By Komkrit Duangmanee, Sanook.com STUDENTS at schools across the country joined an anti-dictatorship campaign today (August 17) by sporting a white bow as a symbolic display of resistance against using state power to threaten and deprive people of freedom, Sanook.com said. This campaign is also spreading on Twitter under a Thai-language hashtag, #WhiteBowAgainstDictatorship. Female students
Read morePridi: Government not broke, situation manageable
NEW Finance Minister Pridi Daochai said today (August 17) after delivering his policy to ministry officials that the government is not broke and additional economic recovery measures will definitely be implemented, INN News said. The new minister pointed out that the entire world economy is in a decline as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic
Read moreThai villagers launch gold-digging tourism
By Thai Newsroom Reporters VILLAGERS IN A western Thai province have been eagerly inviting visitors to dig for gold in a creek, literally. The villagers in Ron Thong community in Bang Sapan district of Prachuap Khiri Khan province are not only digging for gold themselves in the creek called Klong Thong but inviting travellers and
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