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Commentary: California’s math education needs an update, but not the one proposed

California students’ math scores have lagged for years and only gotten worse during the pandemic.

Los Angeles Times

Renting in London: prime London rents soar by nearly a third to nine per cent above pre-pandemic highs

Strong demand combined with the ongoing supply squeeze has led to sky-rocketing rents in prime areas

Evening Standard

Japan to allow limited foreign package tours as experiment

Japan’s government says it will begin allowing small package tours from four countries later this month before gradually opening up to foreign tourism for the first time since it imposed tight border restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic

The Independent UK

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The Sadness review – unapologetically yucky gorefest turns into pandemic allegory

Inventive Taiwan-set horror in which a virus turns the infected into monsters propelled by their worst instincts

The Guardian - UK

Dublin Airport: New taxi scheme to encourage drivers taking late-night fares

Around one in ten drivers left the industry during the most intense two years of the Covid-19 pandemic

Dublin Live

Restaurant bill backers battle deficit concerns, knowledge gap - Roll Call

A $48 billion aid package for restaurants and other pandemic-ravaged businesses faces steep hurdles in the Senate.

Roll Call

Singapore to restart expansion at Changi Airport

Singapore has resumed work on Changi Airport’s Terminal 5 after the project was halted two years ago as the Covid-19 pandemic wiped out travel.

Bangkok Post

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Pandemic unleashes a tsunami of weddings

MINNEAPOLIS — For the 16 years that she's owned Lasting Impressions Weddings, Sarah Trotter has counseled her clients to be flexible when picking a date for their nuptials. She's still offering that advice, although this year it has a taken on a whole new dimension.

Tribune News Service

What's going on with North Korea's COVID-19 crisis? What is Kim Jong Un's regime saying about it? Are they telling the truth?

Until last week, North Korea had claimed to have come through the coronavirus pandemic unscathed. Now it has admitted to recording more than 1.48 million cases in less than a week. Here are five quick questions to help you understand North Korea's COVID crisis.

ABC News

New US hospitals face fiscal crisis over COVID relief money

A handful of U.S. hospitals are facing a financial crisis that officials say was caused by the federal government's rules for pandemic relief money

The Independent UK

Hot desking, tea rounds and surviving meetings IRL: the new rules of the office

Many of us have forgotten how it feels to be sharing a space with colleagues – and hybrid working has only added to the problems. Here’s how to navigate your post-pandemic workplace

The Guardian - UK

Japan to admit some vaccinated Thais on package tours

Japan will allow small groups of tourists on package tours in to the country this month on an experimental basis, welcoming foreign travellers who have been shut out of the country during most of the coronavirus pandemic.

Bangkok Post

Why Morrison's ‘can-do’ capitalism and conservative masculinity may not be cutting through anymore

Scott Morrison’s election strategy was clear at the end of last year. As borders were opened up and restrictions eased, Morrison argued the Coalition would be winding back the big government measures that were necessary during the pandemic.

The Conversation

Executive pay in spotlight again as Next boss takes home £4.4m

Retailer that received government help during pandemic awards CEO massive bonus

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U.N. warns of 'catastrophic' child malnutrition due to price hikes, Ukraine war

The cost of life-saving treatment for the most severely malnourished children is set to jump by up to 16% due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and pandemic disruptions, according to the United Nations' children's agency.

The Independent UK

‘People were extremely stressed and anxious’: IVF treatment through NHS plummets by 7% in pandemic

‘Fertility sadly declines with age. Any delay can be devastating and have an impact on whether someone has successful treatment,’ says expert

The Independent UK

NHS patients faced bigger IVF delays during Covid than those paying privately

Some 83% of private and 34% of NHS clinics were approved to resume service by May 15 2020.

The Independent UK

Watchdogs raise ‘serious concerns’ over performance of criminal justice system

A report spells out how the coronavirus pandemic has affected the work of police, prosecutors, prisons, probation and youth offending teams.

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The Independent UK

More than 325,000 people in England ‘have dementia but are undiagnosed’

The Midlands has the highest number of undiagnosed people with dementia, while London and the North West have the lowest.

Newcastle Herald

PigSty in July goes full hog with The Porkers

DASHVILLE'S PigSty In July is making its return after four years with a whole lot of grunt. Newcastle's own ska heroes The Porkers will return to headline the festival on July 2 at Lower Belford. The Porkers, led by the charismatic Pete "Porker" Cooper, played the last PigSty in 2018…

Bangkok Post

Warehouses thrive as e-commerce booms

With an improving pandemic outlook, the logistics and warehouse sector is continuing to grow, mainly attributed to robust e-commerce business and rising demand from the electronics and automotive industries following the country's reopening.

The Independent UK

Sniffer dogs ‘can accurately detect airport passengers infected with Covid-19’

Scientists say this method of detection is likely to be valuable in the early stages of a pandemic, but also to help contain an ongoing pandemic.

Reason

From today's opinion in U.S. v. Allen, written by Judge Sandra Ikuta and joined by Judge Lawrence VanDyke and Tenth Circuit Judge Carlos Lucero; seems generally right to me: At the height of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the district court here prohibited members of the public from attending the…

The Times of India

Milder 4th wave likely, but Covid won’t affect normal life in Mumbai again: Iqbal Chahal

MUMBAI: The BMC will modernise 16 of its existing hospitals in the city over the next three years and all equipment from its jumbo centres used to fight the Covid-19 pandemic will be utilised in these upgraded hospitals, municipal commissioner Iqbal Chahal said on Monday.

Bangkok Post

Schools are finally back

Today schools reopen nationwide. After two tumultuous years of living with the pandemic, students in all of the country's 35,000 schools will return to physical classes -- learning directly from teachers and playing with friends.

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