Thailand expects to earn 64 bln USD tourism revenue in 2023 on September 19, 2022BANGKOK: Thailand‘s government expects to achieve up to 2.38 trillion baht (about 64.3 billion U.S. dollars) in tourism revenue in 2023, a government spokesperson said Monday. As the tourism sector, a key driver of the Southeast Asian country’s economic growth, has continued to recover, the Thai government has set a target of bringing the revenue […]
U.S. criticized for rolling out COVID boosters without human trials on September 14, 2022LONDON: Health experts have warned that the U.S. decision to roll out new corona-virus boosters without clinical testing on humans risks denting public trust and increasing hesitancy about vaccines, The Financial Times (FT) has said. The British newspaper said on Monday that the Joe Biden administration is using the bivalent boosters, which contain the original […]
Australian teenage girls turn their backs on “body-shaming” online content on September 6, 2022SYDNEY: Australian teenage girls are rejecting unrealistic and unhealthy body standards on social media in favor of more positive and authentic online content, according to a new research report. A survey by Deakin University into the online viewing habits of 336 girls aged from 15 to 17 showed they sought information from reliable sources rather […]
Israel converts AI cyber-security defense system for predicting COVID-19 outbreak on March 26, 2020JERUSALEM: Rafael Advanced Defence Systems, a state-owned Israeli technology company, said Wednesday that it converted an artificial intelligence (AI) cyber-security defence system to predict coronavirus outbreak locations. The system uses AI to analyse big data and draw conclusions from it, using databases, including social networks. Following the spread of the coronavirus, Rafael has converted the system […]