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Thailand plots sustainable comeback for DiCaprio beach

Thailand plots sustainable comeback for DiCaprio beach

While travel stopped and the world locked down, in the dazzling blue waters of Thailand’s idyllic Phi Phi islands, a gentle renaissance was underway. Mass tourism had brought the archipelago, immortalized in Leonardo DiCaprio movie “The Beach”, to the brink of ecological catastrophe. Now Thailand hopes to make Phi Phi …

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US announces diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics

US announces diplomatic boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics

The United States will not send government officials to the 2022 Winter Olympics, the White House said on Monday, after Beijing threatened unspecified “countermeasures” against any diplomatic boycott. President Joe Biden said last month that he was considering such a boycott amid criticism of China’s human rights record, including what …

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WHO advises against blood plasma treatment for Covid-19

WHO advises against blood plasma treatment for Covid-19

Covid treatments using plasma taken from the blood of recovered coronavirus patients should not be given to people with mild or moderate illness, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. Convalescent plasma showed some early promise when given intravenously to people sick with Covid-19. But in advice published in the British …

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Thailand detects first case of Omicron variant

Thailand detects first case of Omicron variant

Thailand has detected its first case of the Omicron coronavirus variant in a U.S. citizen who had traveled to the country from Spain late last month, a health official said on Monday. The confirmed case in the man, who had arrived on Nov. 29, makes Thailand the 47th country to …

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Asia markets down on Omicron, US jobs data worries

Asia markets down on Omicron, US jobs data worries

Asian markets broadly fell in morning trading Monday, tracking uncertainty over the Omicron variant of Covid-19 as well as disappointing U.S. jobs data and the future of Chinese tech firms on Wall Street. The Omicron variant has been detected in 38 countries but no deaths have yet been reported, with …

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