By Reuters, published by Channel NewsAsia Hanoi – A flight from Singapore to Vietnam by US Vice President Kamala Harris was delayed on today (Aug. 24) following an unexplained health incident in Hanoi, the US Embassy in Vietnam said in a statement. Harris, who was in Singapore concluding a three-day trip, was due to fly
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Senior cop in plastic bag suffocation to death video clip shunted out
PROVINCIAL Police Region 6 Chief Pol. Lt. Gen. Apichart Sirisit signed an urgent order transferring Pol. Col. Thitisan Uttanaphon, head of the Mueang Nakhon Sawan police station, after a video clip surfaced showing him suffocating a drug suspect to death by wrapping two plastic bags over his head, Amarin TV said this evening (Aug.
Read morePatients at ‘haunted’ waiting centre claim they had heard ghosts
FRIGHTENED patients at a centre for those waiting for hospital beds in Phetchabun province said they heard screams and cries of ghosts for four nights in a row with officials today (Aug. 24) placing a Buddha image there and sprinkling holy water for their peace of mind, Sanook.com said. After placing the Buddha image
Read more4 new Delta sub-variants ‘ are not mutating into a Thai strain’
THE Public Health Ministry said today (Aug. 24) that the emergence of four new sub-variants of the Covid Delta strain in Thailand do not mean that they are mutating into a new Thai strain, TV Channel 7 said. Dr Wasan Chantrathit, head of Ramathibodi Hospital’s Centre for Medical Genomics, said earlier today that the Delta
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