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India News: Thailand Prime Minister Gen. Prayut Chan-o-cha was fined 6,000 baht (Rs 14,270) on Monday for not wearing a mask, as his government struggled to comba

Prayut among first fined for flouting mask rule Vaccine procurement campaign went awry published : 26 Apr 2021 at 18:08 223 Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha (right) chairs a meeting on Covid-19 vaccine procurement at Government House on Monday. Criticism followed that he failed to wear a mask and the photo was removed from Facebook. (Government House photo) Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has been fined 6,000 baht for failing to wear a mask...

With Nearly Half of U.S. Farmworkers Undocumented, Ending Illegal Immigration Could Devastate Economy On 4/21/21 at 12:38 PM EDT As heated conversations about U.S. immigration focus on migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, a quiet scenario plays out on farms across the country—thousands of undocumented workers tending and picking the crops put food on American tables and fill cargo ships that supply the world. Americas reliance on migrant agricultural workers is a secret hiding in plai...

The Riigikogus social affairs committee has approved a bill which would amend existing legislation in order to grant the Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) more scope in ensuring compliance with coronavirus restrictions. The bill had been the focus of protests in Tallinn, culminating in the detention of several people the Sunday before last. Amendments which have been made to the bill largely concern the size of potential fines to coronavirus regulations violators – these have been cut subst...

The change in the presidential administration has focused cannabis businesses on the potential for legalization nationwide. Running parallel to full federal legalization will be a corresponding regulatory and taxation scheme replacing the current regime of IRC §280E which prohibits anything but the cost of goods sold being deducted from a state licensed cannabis operation’s income statement.  The evolution of the federal taxation of cannabis started with the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, which...

Mari-Liis Jakobson compares recent protests with past examples in Vikerraadios daily comment. While Estonians have traditionally been slow to protest, some parallels can be drawn, she finds. Things are happening again. The air is thick with tension and social media full of emotionally riled up men and women some of whom have spent a week protesting. Just as various social debates have done in the past, coronavirus restrictions and planned amendments to the Communicable Diseases Prevention and C...

People need to be free to protest, while current rules must be complied with, hosts of the Raadio 2 "Olukorrast riigis" talk show Indrek Lepik and Hindrek Riikoja found on Sunday. Riikoja said that protests that have been taking place on Toompea Hill and in Freedom Square only have a provisional link to planned amendments to the Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control Act (NETS). "Most of these protesters have never read the bill. Rather, these protests are born out of frustration of one g...

"Anyone who wishes to avoid the imposition of yet another federal fence around their rights should be watching."

EKRE scores and promises to back down 15. April 2021, 11:29 AM EKRE scores and promises to back down Protest against bill 347 SE at Toompea. PHOTO: Tairo Lutter The saga of amending the Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control Act (NETS) is coming to a close. While head of the opposition Conservative People’s Party (EKRE) Riigikogu group Henn Põlluaas still said that bill 347 SE will be frozen in parliament using obstruction tactics on Monday, the ice had begun to melt by Wednesday eveni...

Around the nation: House passes bill to delay Medicare cuts ⋮ The House on Tuesday voted 384-38 to delay a 2% cut to Medicare payments for the remainder of 2021, in todays bite-sized hospital and health industry news from the District of Columbia, Georgia, and North Carolina. District of Columbia: The House on Tuesday voted 384-38 to delay a 2% cut to Medicare payments for the remainder of 2021. The cuts were initially put in place with the 2011 Budget Control Act, which implemented the ...