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A look inside Thailand, which prevented coronavirus from gaining a foothold
Expecting the worst, a photographer set out to document the pandemic in Bangkok. He was surprised by what he found.
Thailand reacted quickly to the coronavirus pandemic and managed to control the spread of the disease. Now the country is opening up again, with masked crowds filling Bangkok s Chatuchak Market, one of the largest in Southeast Asia.
BySirachai Arunrugstichai
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The first coronavirus case outside of China appeared in Thailand. When the news hit in January, uneasiness spread among the population. Few people seemed confident that our government could handle the situation. After all, the minister of public health is a business tycoon without any background in health unless you count his advocacy for legalizing marijuana. Many of us thought that we would have to take care of ourselves, as usual.
The Inequality Virus: Bringing together a world torn apart by coronavirus through a fair, just and sustainable economy
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The increase in the wealth of the ten richest is more than enough to both pay for a Covid-19 vaccine for everyone on the planet and reverse the rise in poverty caused by the pandemic. However, while the wealth of the richest increases, support for the poorest is being squeezed with the UK and other donors cutting aid to the world’s poorest.
Oxfam’s report The Inequality Virus found that Covid-19 has the potential to increase economic inequality in almost every country at once, the first time this has happened since records began over a century ago. It sets out how a rigged economy is enabling a super-rich elite to amass wealth in the middle of the worst recession since the Great Depression, while billions of people are struggling amid the worst job crisis in over 90 years. Unless rising inequality is tackled, half a billion more people could be living
Monday, 25 January 2021, 10:32 pm
New Zealand’s richest citizen, Graeme Hart, has seen
his fortune increase by NZ$3,494,333,333 since March 2020
– a sum equivalent to over half a million New Zealanders
receiving a cheque for NZ$6,849 each, reveals a new analysis
from Oxfam today.
The New Zealand analysis precedes a
global report being published by Oxfam at 1pm NZT today,
released to coincide with the opening day of the World
Economic Forum’s ‘Davos Agenda’. It shows how the
rigged economic system is enabling a super-rich elite to
amass wealth in the middle of the worst recession since the
Great Depression while billions of people and businesses are