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MULTAN: Eight cars of a Lahore bound train derailed in southern Pakistan early Sunday, killing at least one passenger and injuring 40 others, officials said. The accident took place between the Rohri and Sangi stations in southern Sindh province and caused a temporary suspension of railway traffic in both directions, said Kamran Lashari, a railway official. Lasahri said eight cars of the 18-car train that departed from Karachi for the eastern city of Lahore derailed and six fell into a shallow ditch. Rescue official Muhammad Arshad said darkness and the remote location of the derailment hampered rescue efforts. He said the body of the woman who died and 40 injured passengers were taken to hospitals in nearby towns. It wasn’t immediately clear how many passengers were on the train. Railway Minister Azam Sawati told a local television station that the accident was being investigated and the government would provide financial compensation to the heirs of deceased woman and all the ... » Learn More about Train derails killing 1, injuring 40 in southern Pakistan

Confusion reigns over the effectiveness of a Chinese Covid-19 vaccine due to be rolled out in Thailand next month. Thailand has ordered 2 million doses of the Sinovac Biotech vaccine. The rollout of this particular vaccine among high-risk groups in Indonesia will start this week. However, questions now hang over the vaccine’s efficacy rate, originally reported as 78% in trials in Brazil but more recently downgraded to just over 50%. In total, 4 different rates of effectiveness have been published. In Indonesia data from a local trial indicates an efficacy rate of 65%. However, with only 1,620 participants, the trial is considered too small for the data to have much value. Last month, Turkey reported an efficacy rate of 91.25% in its trials, but the sample size was again deemed too small. The largest trial of the Chinese vaccine has been in Brazil, with 13,000 participants. There are, however, 2 quite different efficacy rates have been reported. It’s not the first time there ... » Learn More about Thailand News Today | Chinese vaccine, Thailand ‘drug hub’, Covid update | January 13

Bangkok – Bangkok ranked in the top 10 cities in the most polluted cities in the world today, December 14, with its Air Quality Index (AQI) of 162 US AQI and a PM2.5 level of 76.6 µg/m3, according to a list by IQ Air. Thick smog of PM2.5 dust particles has returned to Bangkok and nearby provinces, including Chonburi, over the past weekend. Most of the areas in the city and its vicinities have levels of PM2.5 pollution that exceed the safety standard, according to an air quality report by the Department of Pollution Control. Bangkok Air Quality and Noise Management Division announced a real-time air quality index on its website that air quality in all 56 areas of the capital begins to affect health, with the highest PM2.5 level of 85 µg/m3 in Khlong San district, Phra Nakhon district, and Dusit district. The air pollutant PM2.5 is also at unhealthy levels in surrounding provinces, including Chonburi. IQ Air reported that air pollution in the province reached an unhealthy ... » Learn More about Bangkok ranks in top 10 cities in the most polluted cities in the world after PM2.5 smog returns today

CORRECTION: In the first story Jett referred to a Chinese man losing 130 billion baht. The correct amount was 130 million baht. We apologise for the error. Hundreds, perhaps more than 400, investors have been defrauded by a bank manager at a Kasikorn bank branch in Pattaya. The manager, named in a police report as “Mr. Gob”, was promising investors 3.5% interest, per month, yes… PER MONTH… for cash investments. It appears his high interest rate attracted hundreds of people wanting to take advantage of the generous terms. One investor, who only found out about the scam yesterday when he visited the branch for his monthly rolling over of funds, told The Thaiger that he has lost 250,000 baht at this stage, with no official response from the Kasikorn head office in Bangkok yet being made about the situation. Mr B, who has asked us to protect his identity, knows of some investors who invested many millions of baht and even one Chinese man who had allegedly invested 130 million ... » Learn More about Thailand News Today | Pattaya bank scam & Burmese coup update | February 2

Chonburi- The Chonburi Public Health Office today (March 5th) has announced one new confirmed case of Covid – 19 in Chonburi which is a Chinese national who lives in Banglamung. Chonburi now has a total of 657 cases of Covid-19. The Chinese patient, whose age and gender were not given, had entered Thailand early last year (2020). The patient previously operated a restaurant and a bar in Pattaya. However, those businesses were temporarily closed after the new year when the second round of infections of Covid-19 in Chonburi caused the government to implement new restrictions and are currently not open, even though the restrictions have since been lifted. According to a report from the Chonburi Department of Public Health, the patient went to Bangkok from February 24 th to February 26 th . The patient called a GRAB driver and went to a department store four times while in Bangkok, although reportedly wore a mask. The patient went to a hospital this week reporting a ... » Learn More about Chinese national announced as one new local transmission of Covid – 19 in Chonburi

National – The Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) announced 158 domestic Covid-19 cases out of a total of 171 new infections being discovered in Thailand in the past 24 hours. 33 of the 158 domestic cases were discovered in Samut Sakhon with 18, Bangkok 9, Rayong 3, Ratchaburi 1, Samut Prakan 1, and Nonthaburi 1. The other 125 local infections were discovered in Samut Sakhon with 120, Bangkok 4, and Nonthaburi 1 during active case finding by provincial public health authorities. All of them are asymptomatic and are now at state quarantine with no exposure to the general population. All of the infections found in active case finding are currently in strict state quarantine at provided areas under public health supervision with no exposure to the general public, according to the CCSA. This means that 33 cases were found locally transmitted today in Thailand. A total of 190 people had fully recovered and been released from field hospitals and quarantine ... » Learn More about RECAP: Thailand discovers 158 domestic infections with 190 recovered in past 24 hours, vast majority in Samut Sakhon

A 3 month old baby in Bangkok tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday, the youngest case in the new wave of infections, according to the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration. Spokesperson Taweesilp Visanuyothin says local health officials are investigating to determine how the baby was infected. A major wet market in Bangkok, Klong Toey Market, has closed for cleaning after a vendor tested positive for Covid-19. The market will reopen on Saturday. The vendor, who is asymptomatic, was tested in a proactive testing campaign by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration where health officials tested more than 3,000 vendors and migrant workers in the area around the market. The vendor is now in quarantine. Health officials say she came in close contact with 10 people. Those people have been isolated, Klong Toey district director Piyada Niyom. The CCSA recorded 32 Covid-19 cases in Bangkok yesterday and 24 cases in Bangkok today. SOURCE: Bangkok Post Keep in contact with ... » Learn More about Bangkok Covid-19 Update: 3 month old infected; market closes after vendor tests positive

Koh Larn, Pattaya- More than 10,000 domestic tourists have flocked onto Koh Larn during a 3-day-long holiday weekend, according to Bali Hai Pier authorities. Today (February 26 th ) is Makha Bucha, a religious holiday and the first day of a 3-day-long holiday weekend. Tourists are more confident with domestic travel and with Pattaya’s safety measures, which has seen no confirmed cases of Covid -19 for many days. Chonburi, the province where Pattaya is located, was downgraded by the Center for Covid-19 Situation Administration from an “orange” zone, which was a control zone, to a “yellow” zone earlier this week, which brings more relaxed restrictions and has built confidence with domestic tourists. Domestic tourists in the thousands were seen waiting at the Bali Hai Pier where they took boats to Koh Larn. Koh Larn had been closed for all of January to non-residents due to Covid-19, which also helped restore the natural environment and beaches. The island is ... » Learn More about More than 10,000 domestic tourists flocked onto Koh Larn on first day of holiday weekend

Munawar Faruqi had not even started his set at the Munroe Café in Indore on January 1 when he and another stand-up comic were arrested, alongside two of the event’s organisers, for violating India ’s colonial era anti-blasphemy laws. The 28-year-old Muslim comedian was accused of “intent” to outrage religious sentiments by Aklavya Gaur, a Hindu nationalist activist and son of the city’s mayor. Moments before Faruqi’s arrest – and only seconds after he took to the stage – Gaur had burst into the venue and began shouting that the show was “cancelled”, according to eyewitnesses. “Munawar was interrupted even before he could start performing,” said 22-year-old audience member G Jen Agnes K, who has since received death threats for speaking out in support of the comic online. “As soon as he got the spotlight Aklavya Gaur interrupted him.” Gaur – whose mother Malini is a member of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party as well as being ... » Learn More about In Modi’s India, comedians can now be jailed for ‘intent’ to tell a joke – as Munawar Faruqi found out

A cold storage facility is attached to the main building envelope and is usually covered in pre-fabricated insulated panels. After more than a year of battling against COVID-19, the much-awaited ending to the pandemic that caused global turmoil is finally starting to unfold. However, just as how the world walked on thin ice prior to the discovery of the COVID-19 vaccines, its presence now is causing another global challenge, which took the phrase “walking on thin ice” quite literally. ‘Deep freeze’ requirement The efficacy of vaccines is comparable to milk. Although both are needed to make our bodies stronger, they may also spoil when stored under inappropriate temperatures. The reason for this phenomenon? At least within the context of COVID-19, the vaccines use the messenger RNA (mRNA) to turn a person’s cells into “factories” that create a specific coronavirus protein. This protein then responds as if there is a real coronavirus infection, allowing the immune system to ... » Learn More about Vaccines and cold storage facilities in the Philippines