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The worlds emergence from the coronavirus pandemic is set to unleash a wave of spending by older consumers, with increasing opportunities for investors in aging-linked stocks.

After four years of beatings, humiliation and sexual abuse, María de Jesús mustered the courage to leave the man who would punch her in the face for even changing her clothes to go outside, saying she could only look pretty for him.

When the pandemic hit the Brookdale Chambrel senior living community in Williamsburg, Virginia, Nancy Crowell knew hopping in the car and heading to the local Harris Teeter supermarket was out of the question.

HÀ NỘI — Vietnamese Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính held a phone conversation with his Thai counterpart Prayut Chan-o-cha on Wednesday night to discuss various aspects of bilateral co-operation, including facilitation of travel protocols between the two countries.

A study on consumer payment attitudes by Visa showed nearly half of all Thai consumers (45 per cent) were likely to avoid using cash after the Covid-19 pandemic ends.

Recently, the Indian variant of the novel coronavirus has been detected in Việt Nam. At the same time, people who finished 14-day quarantine periods went on to test positive. Hoàng Vũ Mai Phương, Head of Virus Department, National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, talks to Sức khoẻ đời sống (Life and Health) newspaper about research related to this virus variant.

Chulalongkorn University, which recently launched the “Innovations for Society” campaign, has released a short film to show the different innovations Chula has successfully developed to fight Covid-19.

The world faced its worst hunger problem in at least five years in 2020 on the back of the coronavirus crisis, and the outlook remains grim again this year.

NEW DELHI - In sheer numbers, it is the worst surge since the pandemic began - and it is still gathering speed.

More than 80 per cent of Thai organisations surveyed by PwC recently said they were hit adversely by the Covid-19 pandemic, while the report indicated that successful crisis recovery hinges on improving resiliency.

This week, a police captain committed suicide in Bangkok’s Police General Hospital, and investigators concluded that he hanged himself over fear of putting his mother and wife at risk. He was a Covid-19 patient.

The unprecedented oil inventory glut that amassed during the coronavirus pandemic is almost gone, underpinning a price recovery thats rescuing producers but vexing consumers.