Authorities of the capital of Thailand has banned street food Authorities in Bangkok are going to remove from the streets all the food stalls. About this newspaper The Nation. The Bangkok Metropolitan administration has gone to such measures to make the capital city safer and cleaner, and free up sidewalks for pedestrians. Chief Advisor to the Governor of Bangkok Wanlop, Suwandi (Wanlop Suwandee) promised that before the end of the year, officials will remove not only street food vendors, but also other goods. In his words, “cleaning” will affect all 50 districts of the capital. No exceptions in this matter will not be stressed, Suwandi. “Street vendors for too long have occupied the sidewalks, but we have given them a legitimate place in the markets for the sale of food and other goods. Any delay in this operation will not” — said the official. Bangkok is famous for its street
Day: April 20, 2017
One thousand twins have helped to understand what the facial features of the parents inherit children
One thousand twins have helped to understand what the facial features of the parents inherit children Scientists from king’s College London is a large study on twins have determined what facial features are passed to the next generation with higher probability. The results of the work presented in the journal Scientific Reports. A team of scientists analyzed a 3D model of the 952 persons of female twins (identical and non-identical) living in the UK. The researchers found that the shape of the tip of the nose, nasolabial folds, chin and cheekbones and the inner corners of the eye most dependent on genetics. By combining these 3D models with the statistical algorithm, which detects local changes in facial features, the researchers were able to create a map of the face where you can see which areas of the face, the offspring will inherit from higher and lower probability. According to researchers,
Civil of the liquidators of Chernobyl equated to the military
Photo: TASS “The Union “Chernobyl” Russia” and NGO “Verum” made a proposal to change the order of payments on the burial of civilians who participated in the liquidation of the Chernobyl accident. Family volunteers and people seconded from businesses, will receive an increased compensation for the funeral and installation of the monument. Amendments to the act provide for the giving of military honors at the burial of civilian liquidators. After nearly 31 years after the tragedy in Chernobyl, in Russia survived for about 190 thousand of the liquidators of the accident at the nuclear power plant. Including 90 thousand former soldiers and 100 thousand volunteers and delegates from ministries, departments, enterprises, organizations. Today, the average age of the liquidators is 65-66 years, and the adverse consequences of the Chernobyl disaster could not affect their health. According to the President of the “Union “Chernobyl” Russia”, member of the presidential Commission for
The Russians know about himatake in Syria
Photo: Reuters The majority of Russians have heard reports of the use in Syria of chemical weapons. And version 37% of citizens of the Russian Federation, the organizers of himataki is ISIS (an organization banned in Russia. — “News”). Such data results in the polls in the study on the reaction of the Russians to the incident in Idlib. Sociologists have found know whether the Russians are reports in the world media about the use of chemical weapons of mass destruction in Syria. The majority of respondents (85%) answered that they had heard about it. 34% of respondents on an event “know good”, 51% — no details. 14% of Russians admitted that about the chemical attack first learned during the interview. Among those who doubted the use of chemical weapons in Syria, the majority — 37% — believe the organizers of the attacks of ISIS. 5% of Russians believe that
Medvedev: fight for the presidency is serious, but not to turn it into a war
© Anton novoderezhkin/TASS MOSCOW, April 19. /TASS/. Society’s demands on the stability and development will continue during the election campaign before elections of the President of the Russian Federation in 2018. This was stated by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev during the annual report in the state Duma, noting that the fight will be serious, but it should act without conflict and populism.
The Russian foreign Ministry believes important that the court of justice did not support the position of Kiev about the “aggression” and “occupation”
MOSCOW, April 19. /TASS/. The Russian foreign Ministry believes important that the international court of justice has taken a principled stand and did not support the Declaration of Ukraine on the alleged “aggression”, “occupation” or on the status of Crimea. This is stated in comments to Russian depodesta, published Wednesday in the social network Facebook. “The court found the decision to use three temporary measures in the ICERD (International Convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination): one concerns the availability of education in the Ukrainian language, the second capabilities of the Crimean-Tatar communities to have their representative institutions and the third, addressed to Ukraine and Russia to avoid actions that could lead to the aggravation of the dispute. It is important that the Court took a principled stand and did not support the Declaration of Ukraine on the alleged “aggression”, “occupation”, or on the status of Crimea
Him and Le Pen retains the lead in the polls for the elections in France
Him and Le Pen retains the lead in the polls for the elections in France PARIS, 19 Jul — RIA Novosti. The leader of the movement “Forward” Emmanuel macron and the Chairman of the party “national front” marine Le Pen maintains leadership in the presidential race in France, a recent poll by research firm Ifop commissioned by the magazine Paris Match, Cnews TV channel and radio station Sud Radio. According to the study, the Makron in the first round is ready to vote for 23.5% of the respondents, Le Pen is 22.5%. The third should be the candidate of the party “the Republicans”, the ex-Prime Minister Francois Fillon — it 19.5% of the votes, the fourth — the leader of the “Rebellious France,” Jean-Luc Mélenchon is 18.5%. Only in the presidential election involved 11 candidates. In the second round of voting, the macron, according to the survey, bypasses Le Pen
In Russia developed a project to block anonymizers and VPN services
In Russia developed a project to block anonymizers and VPN services MOSCOW, 19 Jul — RIA Novosti. A bill providing for a ban on the use of information systems and programs that allow users to bypass the blocking of websites with illegal content developed in Russia, should be at the disposal of RIA Novosti text of the project. As noted in the explanatory note to the draft of the 2012 practice of restricting access to prohibited Internet sites in Russia have demonstrated a lack of effectiveness. The operators of search engines are not obliged to stop providing links to the blocked sites and visit them now by using technologies that route traffic of the Russian Internet users through foreign servers, anonymous proxy servers (also called anonymizers, ed.), virtual private networks (VPN services), and so on. To prohibit and penalize Therefore, the authors propose to prohibit the use in Russia of
In Caracas began a large-scale protest action of opposition
In Caracas began a large-scale protest action of opposition Moscow. April 19. INTERFAX.RU IN the Venezuelan capital of Caracas, the opposition began mass protest against President Nicolas Maduro, called the “Mother of all marches”, said on Wednesday the American TV channel Fox News. According to the TV station, the protesters began the March of the 26 points of the capital toward the building of the local Governance on human rights. The protesters intend to achieve full restoration of the rights of Venezuela’s Parliament, most of whose members are representatives of the opposition, establish a timetable for the election of a new President and begin the process of restoring Venezuela’s economy. Earlier, opposition leader Henrique Capriles said that the opposition will not stop until in the country will have presidential elections. In the television report noted that the protests in Venezuela have been going on for over two weeks, during this
Russia has submitted to the OPCW proof of statement himataki in Syria
Moscow presented the Organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons (OPCW) range of evidence demonstrating the nature of the staging of the incident with the possible use of chemical warfare agents in Syria’s Idlib province. In an interview with TASS said Russia’s permanent representative at the organization of Alexander Shulgin. According to him, at the meeting of the Executive Council of the OPCW in the Hague, the Director of the Department for nonproliferation and arms control, the Russian foreign Ministry Mikhail Ulyanov showed some photos from a likely himataki, despite attempts to prevent this from representatives of a number of Western countries. Shulgin said that Ulyanov pointed out a number of inconsistencies between the spreading commercials on YouTube, and operational photos from the incident. “It is alleged, for example, that was used sarin, one of the symptoms which are constricted pupils. Meanwhile, the images show that in children, the pupils