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At least 10 people have died and countless others are facing life-threatening conditions as Texans prepared to enter day four of frigid weather without heat and power. A growing concern is for those people in the storm's path with serious health conditions. "That’s concerning not only for temperature but also for people who are on oxygen or do need electronic devices for their health," said Comfort Homes Director of Operations Kasey Breidenthal, according to KTAB, the CBS affiliated TV station in Abilene, Texas In the Dallas suburb of Richardson, a woman who relies on an oxygen machine had to be taken to a local hospital and then a dialysis center where the machine was charged, the Texas Tribune reported. Conversely, carbon monoxide poisoning has become a major health concern. At least two deaths have been reported and in Houston alone, Texas' largest city has seen 300 carbon monoxide poisoning cases, according to the Houston Chronicle. The rise in cases has come about from people trying to stay warm in running cars in garages, BBQ pits and generators used indoors. The power problems have also impacted water pressure levels across The Lone Star State. An estimated 7 million people were told to boil their water or stop using it entirely as homeowners, hospitals, and businesses grappled with low pressure, broken water mains and burst pipes. South of Austin, in the city of Kyle, residents were asked Wednesday to suspend water usage until further notice because of a shortage as disruptions to water systems also hit Houston, Fort Worth, Galveston and Corpus Christi. As the state struggles for warmth and survival, lawmakers locally and nationally directed anger at the state's Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), which according to its web site "manages the flow of electric power to more than 26 million Texas customers -- representing about 90 percent of the state’s electric load." Gov. Gregg Abbott served notice of a pending investigation. Bill Magness, the CEO of ERCOT attempted to explain the reason for his agency's actions in an interview with KEYE, the CBS affiliate in Austin. "These outages, while they’re extremely difficult, and we’re trying to get them to end and get power back to people as fast as we can, are a controlled method of making sure we don’t lose the system, to make sure we don’t have a much bigger catastrophic event on the system," said Magness The under-fire executive expressed empathy for his fellow Texans. "Having to live without power during these kinds of conditions is horrible, absolutely." Still, he stressed that if not for the outages, the state could be facing a larger crisis. "The catastrophic outcome I’m talking about is if we had let the system go into a stage where a blackout would happen, we wouldn’t be talking about when are we going to restore the power, when are we going to turn it back on," said Magness. "We would be talking about rebuilding portions of the electric system. We wouldn’t be able to do this in days. Magness was not able to say definitively when the power would resume, but he hoped many customers would see at least partial service restored by later Wednesday or Thursday. More than 3 million homes and businesses were remaining without power for the third day of a historic winter storm that is pummeling the state. https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-energy-company-cant-say-when-power-will-be-back-as-millions-left-to-deal-with-brutal-winter-storm

only kgks will believe in renewable energy being environmental friendly. the environmental pollution entailed in manufacturing and recycling a photovoltaic cell is a close second to coal generation. this is an undeniable scientific fact!!!!!! https://theconversation.com/does-green-energy-have-hidden-health-and-environmental-costs-52484

dont worry, ComfortDelGro is linked to NTUC... sinkie govt bailout coming soon! privatize the profits socialize the losses

Not true when the company HR come from the same village. Also some gain monetary gains when they get employed into the company. if you really want to make this work, make it mandatary that HR dept employ sinkies only.

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https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/China-s-Great-Wall-to-kick-start-Thai-sales-with-focus-on-EVs?utm_campaign=RN Subscriber newsletter&utm_medium=daily newsletter&utm_source=NAR Newsletter&utm_content=article link&del_type=1&pub_date=20210217190000&seq_num=16&si=44594 China's Great Wall to kick-start Thai sales with focus on EVs Automaker joins SAIC to challenge Japanese brands that dominate ASEAN market An Ora Good Cat compact car is displayed at an auto show in Beijing. The model will be the first fully electric vehicle that Great Wall Motor will launch in Thailand. © Reuters APORNRATH PHOONPHONGPHIPHAT, Nikkei staff writerFebruary 17, 2021 17:40 JST BANGKOK -- Chinese automaker Great Wall Motor will make an official entry into Thailand, Southeast Asia's largest car market, this year with a focus on electrified cars to break the stranglehold of Japanese brands, which together hold nearly 90% of the market share. Executives of the company met Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha on Monday and told him that Thailand will be an important production base and export hub for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations region, local media reported. Great Wall has been preparing to enter the Thai market after purchasing a car manufacturing plant in Rayong Province, southeast of Bangkok, from General Motors, which decided in February 2020 to scale back its operations in the Asia-Pacific region. The deal was completed in September, marking the end of GM's presence in the kingdom. This latest market entry follows SAIC Motor's launch of MG brand cars in Thailand several years ago through a joint venture with the leading Thai conglomerate, Charoen Pokphand Group. This Sino-Thai auto alliance will also be a competitor with Great Wall. Great Wall will make efforts to offer best-in-class products and services to Thai people and heighten market standards to increase the potential of the Thai automotive industry, Narong Sritalayon, managing director of Great Wall Motor Thailand, said during a virtual news conference earlier this month. At a virtual news conference, Great Wall Motor announced that it will launch four models in Thailand this year, including the Haval H6 sport utility vehicle. (Photo courtesy of the company) Based in Hebei Province, Great Wall is listed on the Hong Kong and Shanghai stock exchanges, with sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks as its main products. Its annual sales volume hit an all-time high of 1.11 million units in 2020. The company has announced that it will launch four models this year in Thailand, including the Haval H6 sport utility vehicle and the Ora Good Cat compact electric car. The release dates and prices have not yet been disclosed. The Haval H6 is a successful SUV that has sold more than 6 million units in China and other countries, according to the company. Ora Good Cat will be the first fully electric vehicle that Great Wall will launch in Thailand. "It will set a new standard as a high-quality, technology-packed car with appealing retro futurism design for Thai people," the automaker said in a statement. In the past few years, consumer interest in electrified vehicles has been growing in Thailand, and hybrid and plug-in hybrid vehicles are gradually taking root. Great Wall's strategy is to differentiate itself from existing manufacturers by focusing more on electrified vehicles. It plans to launch a total of nine models in three years. Its lineup "will breathe new life into Thailand's automobile scene with technology and performance that redefine driving enjoyment and value for money towards the future," the automaker said. That meshes with the Thai government's policy of pushing Thailand toward becoming the EV hub of ASEAN by 2030. The country aims to have EVs make up 30% of the 2.5 million units expected to be produced in 2030. Standing in Great Wall's way are the Japanese brands, led by Toyota Motor, that have built up a very strong foothold in many ASEAN countries. In the Thai market, which shrank by 21% to about 790,000 units in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, non-Japanese cars accounted for only 12% of the total. The SAIC-CP alliance sold about 28,000 MG brand vehicles in 2020, 6.8% more than the previous year, a notable performance amid a difficult sales environment. Kasikorn Bank's research arm, Kasikorn Research Center, has forecast that the Thai auto market will revive only gradually, expecting sales to grow by 7-11% to between 825,000 and 855,000 units in 2021. Great Wall's entry will create new competition in a market that is still in the midst of recovery.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - China has dismantled dozens of structures and moved vehicles to empty out entire camps along a disputed Himalayan border, where Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a face-off since last summer, satellite images released on Wednesday show. The nuclear-armed neighbours last week announced a plan to pull back troops, tanks and other equipment from the banks of Pangong Tso, a glacial lake in the Ladakh region, that became a flashpoint in the prolonged border dispute. Satellite imagery of some areas on the northern bank of Pangong Tso from Tuesday supplied by Maxar Technologies show that multiple Chinese military camps, which could be seen there in late January, have been removed. "Similar action is happening from our side also," an Indian official in New Delhi, who asked not to be named, told Reuters. India's defence minister Rajnath Singh told parliament that both sides had agreed to pull back troops in "a phased, coordinated and verified manner" around Pangong Tso, after which military commanders would discuss ending the standoff in other parts of the Ladakh frontier. Tensions began rising along the high-altitude border in April, when India accused Chinese troops of intruding into its side of the Line of Actual Control, the de facto border. China denied the allegation, saying it was operating in its own area. But the confrontation spiralled in June when 20 Indian soldiers and an undisclosed number of Chinese troops were killed during hand-to-hand clashes in Ladakh's Galwan region - the first such casualties along the 3,500 km (2,200 mile) long border in decades. Despite several subsequent rounds of diplomatic and military talks, India and China had been unable to settle on an agreement until February, making the ongoing first phase of the withdrawal critical. "What is happening now is that wherever troops, especially north and south of Pangong Tso, were in eyeball-to-eyeball contact, they have taken a step back to reduce tensions and pave way for further de-escalation," the Indian official said. Videos and images released by the Indian army earlier this week also showed Chinese troops dismantling bunkers and tents, and tanks, soldier and vehicles moving out as part of the disengagement process. But some experts have cautioned that current withdrawal is the only the first step of a potentially long-drawn out process. "It is still nowhere near a full disengagement or an agreement on what we should be doing," India's former National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon told The Wire news outlet. "We need much more than just disengagement. We need a return to the positions before April last year."

They r all evil... Only the dotter on sick bed notch evil

No new qyf or sun ho pic to motivate me

Damn handsome

kgk xdd jin kumgong. that place mostly support staff and credit card sales go jiak one, so if kgk xdd hang ur bmw keychain at the belt, all the ols there sure wet wet de. kgk xdd shld go to oue's lunar lim kopi and pretend to be sakti investment banker. can beo many atbs from nearby tiongland visa office and when kgk xdd swing ur bmw keychain, confirm they wet wet de.

Always about give cheekon wing but take back farm

Latest from Chomsky and his colleague Prof. Marv Waterstone at the University of Arizona...ordered my copy and I can't wait to read it!

SINGAPORE - A woman was killed after a tree fell on her in Marsiling Park on Thursday morning (Feb 18). The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said that they were alerted to the incident at about 8.15am and found a person trapped under a fallen tree. SCDF used cutting equipment to extricate the trapped woman, who is believed to be in her late 30s. The person was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. According to eyewitnesses, a loud crack was heard just before the tree fell, pinning the woman under it. About 10 passers-by tried to lift the tree to help the woman but were unsuccessful. Secondary 3 student Kayden Teo and his friend were among those who tried to help. The 15-year-old said: "We were walking across the bridge (over the pond) and heard a loud crack and a splash. A tall tree fell and we ran over to help a woman who was stuck underneath it." He added that SCDF officers arrived soon after. Apart from police and emergency services officers, the park was mostly empty on Thursday morning when The Straits Times visited. A large section of walkway had been cordoned off and a blue tent was seen on the walkway. A large blue canvas was used to cover the area where the tree had fallen. The Straits Times has contacted NParks for comment.

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