Новости за 21.03.2020

by Jessika Consuegra, Théodore Grenier, Patrice Baa-Puyoulet, Isabelle Rahioui, Houssam Akherraz, Hugo Gervais, Nicolas Parisot, Pedro da Silva, Hubert Charles, Federica Calevro, François Leulier

Procurement might be one of the last things on your mind, but it should be one of the first.

The leaders of American Trucking Associations, FedEx Corp., UPS Inc. and the U.S. Postal Service are asking the White House to ensure that measures taken by federal, state and local governments to slow the spread of the coronavirus do not hinder their efforts to deliver needed goods to citizens.

Crazy how much shit can change up on you in literally the span of a week. Things that sounded out of the realm of possibility now seem like very real solutions. Take, for example, canceling student loan debt.

To protect the health and safety of the NASA workforce as the nation responds to coronavirus (COVID-19), agency leadership recently completed the first assessment of work underway across all missions, projects, and programs.

As gyms close their doors, people are buying up dumbbells like toilet paper.

As the first of what will likely be many weeks stuck inside my home winds to a close, I am slowly but surely acclimating to this mildly uncomfortable new reality. Human contact is a thing of the past, but one day, eventually, we will be free again to engage in unrestrained sexual frottage with the partner of our…

I awaken in the abandoned Phobos installation, a place both familiar and unfamiliar. The hallways are oppressively dark; everything is so dark. I almost want to reach out and touch the walls to make sure I’m still moving forward. The air is thick with the atonal wails of malfunctioning machinery and the growls of the twice-revived dead. More »

Zoom is getting a lot more use these days now that people need to hold meetings remotely and carry on other events that require face-to-face interaction without the current risks posed by physical proximity. Zoom lets you create and host meetings, but it isn’t the only online video conferencing solution out there.…

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As Thailand and its neighbors scramble to contain the pandemic and panic, we urgently need to start building a response to the source of Covid-19, or risk having new outbreaks hit us even harder. There is good reason to believe that we know the source -- global wildlife trade -- and that there is a solution.

The Chinese government may have closed down the wet market in Wuhan where the coronavirus is believed to have originated. But in the heart of Bangkok, a "Wuhan in the making" continues to operate as usual at Chatuchak Weekend Market, where trade in wild animals has taken place for years.

They say every cloud has a silver lining. So, does the pandemic that is wreaking havoc across the globe have one too?

With Covid-19 infection cases soaring past 300 in a short time, we have now realised the battle with this disease will be much tougher than we thought. In other words, despite the predicament in Wuhan, we unforgivably underestimated the threat it posed.

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) has demanded that listed developer Polaris Capital Plc (POLAR) clarify information after the Court of Appeals issued a temporary injunction to prohibit the registrar from registering the current board of directors.

The government is campaigning for people to stay at home to help reduce the spread of Covid-19.

“It would be fun for everyone—except maybe the people involved.”

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It was Nov. 22, 1986, when a 20-year-old Mike Tyson challenged Trevor Berbick for the WBC heavyweight belt.