By Newsweek and published by MSN News THE Long March 5B rocket carried the main module of Tianhe, or Heavenly Harmony, China’s first permanent space station into orbit on April 29. Discarded rocket stages are usually immediately guided into a controlled demolition by friction in Earth’s atmosphere. But China’s space agency has yet to comment
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Travel agencies offering Covid-19 ‘vaccine tours’ to US
By Reuters Staff, published by MSN News TRAVEL agencies in Thailand are selling coronavirus “vaccine tours” to the United States, as some wealthy Thais grow impatient awaiting mass inoculations that are still a month away amid the country’s biggest outbreak so far. The tours reflect global differences in vaccinations, with the United States and Britain
Read moreCourt says deputy minister can stay despite drug case
By AP and published by Channel NewsAsia THE CONSTITUTIONAL Court ruled today (May 5) that an influential politician and deputy agriculture minister could keep his job and continue as a lawmaker, even though he was convicted and jailed in Australia in 1994 for smuggling heroin. Under Thai law, anyone found guilty of narcotics offences is
Read moreThaksin slams vaccine policy, says some Pfizer vaccine has slipped through
WHILE former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said in a Clubhouse chat that a small amount of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has arrived in Thailand and Pfizer (Thailand) Company today (May 5) denied it has started importing its vaccine, he had also criticised the government’s vaccine policy, Sanook.com said. Thaksin said that although vaccines are not very risky,
Read moreDaily Covid count rises to 2,112, two blocks of flats in Din Daeng closed
AMID a continuing high daily coronavirus count with it reaching 2,112 this morning (May 5), and there being 15 more fatalities, the infection is now spreading heavily in Din Daeng area with two blocks of flats shut, Amarin TV said The new cases raise the cumulative confirmed total to 74,900 while the total death toll
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