People buy cannabis from a mobile stall on Khao San Road. (Photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb) The Public Health Ministry is allowing cannabis buds to be sold by more than 5,000 licensed vendors nationwide next month, with vendors’ and buyers’ information to be sent to the International […]
High-voltage electricity wires of Pathum Thani Provincial Electricity Authority. The 4.72-baht power tariff rate has been used since September this year. Pattanapong Hirunard The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has decided to maintain the power tariff at 4.72 baht per kilowatt-hour (unit), keeping electricity bills for households […]
In the Council of Ministers, the Austrian government decided on the housing and heating cost subsidy, which is part of the federal government’s energy protection umbrella. The subsidy to the federal states is intended for subsidies for heating and housing costs and is divided according […]
Last week, as Carolyn George slept in her home in the small United States town of Newtok, Alaska, a scary sound jolted her awake. “I heard a really loud bump,” George recalled in an interview with Al Jazeera. “And I felt it, too – my […]
A smokey brown haze blankets India’s northern plains and the national capital, New Delhi, every year as winter sets in, affecting the health of millions of people, but the authorities have found few solutions to the pollution crisis and are literally unable to clear the […]
Slovakia’s minority coalition government has lost a vote of no-confidence in parliament that was called by the opposition following months of political crisis, and this could lead to snap elections. On Thursday, 78 lawmakers in the 150-member parliament voted to remove the three-party government of […]
Business is bouncing back in Bethlehem after two years in the doldrums during the coronavirus pandemic, lifting spirits in the traditional birthplace of Jesus ahead of the Christmas holiday. Elias Arja, head of the Bethlehem hotel association, said that tourists are hungry to visit the […]
A former Texas police officer has been convicted of manslaughter on Thursday for fatally shooting a Black woman through a rear window of her home in 2019, a rare conviction of an officer for killing someone also armed with a gun. Jurors found Aaron Dean […]
The United States Congress is considering legislation that would restrict the use of TikTok by government employees over security concerns that user data could be passed along to the Chinese government. The US Senate passed a bill earlier this week that would ban federal workers […]
The United States House of Representatives has passed a bill to allow Puerto Rico to vote on a binding referendum on whether to become a state or gain independence – a largely symbolic measure unlikely to pass in the Senate. The House passed the proposal, […]
