Over 100,000 students aged 10-18 to get Sinopharm jabs from Monday

13 Sept 10:56 Key points summarised by AI

Thailand’s Chulabhorn Royal Academy (CRA) initiates the “VACC 2 School” project, inoculating over 108,000 students aged 10-18 with the Sinopharm vaccine from today until mid-October.
This campaign functions as a research project to assess Sinopharm's use in children under 18, aiming to enable normal class resumption by November and reduce COVID-19 transmission.
Sinopharm was selected due to its low reported side effect rate (around 0.2%) in other countries, offering a perceived safer option for parents accustomed to similar inactivated virus vaccines.
The “VACC 2 School” campaign will not be extended as other ministries will commence mass Pfizer vaccinations for children from October, with CRA subsequently monitoring school COVID-19 spread.

Suchada: Meet the reluctant star of Thailand’s cryptic crypto drama

Yesterday 15:38 Key points summarised by AI

Thai MP Suchada Zhang Thaensap faces intense scrutiny over her husband’s substantial 1.84 billion baht wealth, with opposition lawmakers alleging connections to international scam networks.
A significant portion of her husband, Taiyang Zhang's, declared assets includes a 1.44 billion baht loan to the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital, which still owes him 1.34 billion baht.
Opposition MP Rangsiman Rome accused Suchada's husband of links to online scam networks and gambling sites, prompting Suchada to vehemently deny the claims, demand evidence, and file a defamation complaint.
Taiyang Zhang's background includes co-founding Ren Protocol, later sold to Alameda Research (linked to the FTX collapse), and some of his former associates have been convicted in crypto company failures.
Suchada, a former actress and first-time MP, maintains her husband's innocence, while her party leaders have distanced themselves from the allegations, deeming it a private matter.