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A woman uses a sanitising hand gel from a four-legged dog robot called “K9” at the Central World department store, after the Thai government eased isolation measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Bangkok, Thailand.                                                                        File photo Image: REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha
BANGKOK

Robot dog hounds Thai shoppers to keep hands virus-free

A scurrying robot dog named K9 dispenses hand sanitizer to curious children and wary shoppers — one of the more unexpected measures Thai malls are taking as the kingdom relaxes virus restrictions. The hi-tech hound is controlled using 5G,…

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Professor Glenda Gray, president of the South African Medical Research Council, is the first author on a study published this week about an HIV vaccine being tested in South Africa.Image: GroundUp/South African Medical Research Council
HIV

Hope for HIV vaccine being tested in SA

While it’s too soon to be confident, a vaccine originally tested in Thailand has shown promising early results An HIV vaccine candidate — initially tested in Thailand, where it had modest effects — has shown potential in a study in SA.…

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A screen grab from a television station in Thailand of Nolubabalo ‘Babsie’ Nobanda when she was nabbed smuggling cocaine in her dreadlocks.Image: File photo/Archive
DRUG MULE

Drug mule Babsie Nobanda got a degree in Thai prison

Drug mule Nolubabalo “Babsie” Nobanda, from Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape, is ready to become a productive member of society, armed with a degree she obtained through distance learning while in a Thai prison. So says good samaritan Henk…

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Four years after she was arrested in Bangkok for smuggling cocaine from Brazil to Thailand in her dreadlocks, Makhanda’s Nolubabalo ‘Babsie’ Nobanda, left, enjoyed a visit from her mother Honjiswa Mbewu at Klong Prem prison at the end of 2014 Image: Supplied
DRUG MULE

She’s coming home – ‘Babsie’ to be freed from Thai jail

It’s official: convicted Makhanda drug mule Nolubabalo “Babsie” Nobanda is coming home. In an early morning phone call to DispatchLIVE on Wednesday, Henk Vanstaen, the Good Samaritan who has been assisting South Africans incarcerated in…

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