23680 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://printveela.com/the-first-2022-winter-olympic-medals-have-been-awarded-heres-what-they-look-like/Dozens of athletes from 18 countries and counting are returning home with a gold, silver or bronze medal in their luggage after the first few days of competition at the Beijing Winter Games. Among them is Norway’s Therese Johaug, who won the first gold medal of the Games in the women’s 7.5 km + 7.5 km skiathlon.2022-02-06T17:22+0100printveela-02ef7a3a322907521ad437b6c095319c20220206172200https://www.pattayamail.com/thailandnews/ban-nam-khem-tsunami-museum-officially-opens-in-phangnga-south-thailand-388601Ban Nam Khem Tsunami Museum officially opened at Ban Nam Khem community in PhangNga province, with Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha virtually presiding over the opening ceremony. Thailand has officially opened the Ban Nam Khem Tsunami Museum in PhangNga province.2022-02-06T15:53+0100pattayamail-506a85e039737d57ea90ee8d8107843820220206155300https://thethaiger.com/news/national/phang-nga-village-hit-by-2004-tsunami-opens-museumOne Phang Nga village community that was hit hard by the 2004 tsunami, Baan Nam Khem, has officially opened a museum about the tsunami, known as the Asian Tsunami (which was again recently). Thailand’s Minister of Culture, who attended the opening, says the museum will educate people about the....2022-02-06T12:42+0100phuketgazette-b52cdee10f99baf38ee190983557a19d20220206124200https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-06/earthquake-strikes-cairns-queensland-bureau-of-meteorology/100809068Geoscience Australia is reporting a magnitude 3.9 earthquake stuck off the coast of Cairns on Sunday afternoon. The quake was at a depth of 10 kilometres, about 50 kilometres east of the city in Far North Queensland. Senior Seismologist Hadi Ghasemi said "it was an off-shore, small, shallow earthquake".2022-02-06T10:15+0100abc-au-fc504bdc8ca258e4c5d38d5ce020d37d20220206101500