THAILAND - SELLING draft beer via dispensing machines at convenience stores is a violation of the Alcohol Control Act 2008, the Public Health Ministry's sub-committee ruled yesterday.
NEW ZEALAND - Innovated camera research from Otago and Auckland universities reveal how every time a New Zealand child enters a supermarket they are exposed to alcohol marketing.
"We are worried about the increase in excessive alcohol consumption among adolescents and the heavy use overall, especially in provincial areas," said Greece's Health Minister Andreas Xanthos.
Tipsy canoeing may soon be a thing — at least, if the Canadian government relaxes some of its impaired driving laws.
Throughout Canada, it's currently illegal to drink and boat. If you're found to be under the influence while in a canoe, kayak, raft, or other recreational water vessel, it's like being caught drinking and driving a car. That may change with a bill to decriminalize drunken boating that's up for vote.
Farmers who till the barley for beer or grow apples for cider will no longer be allowed to feature in fields of grain or an orchard to promote alcohol once new laws are in place.
AFRICA - Her 23-year-old son started taking liquor at the age of 15 when he was in Form 2.
"I did not expect it until the time when my son started smelling of alcohol each time he came back home in the evenings. As a parent, I confronted him and did all I could to stop him but he could not change," Landirani says.
The South African Post Office (Sapo) has paid tribute to the South African wine industry through a set of five small international letter rate stamps and a commemorative envelope that will be issued on Friday.
AUSTRALIA - From today, taxi drivers will be banned from taking passengers to liquor restricted premises if they have alcohol in their possession.
Eighteen months after a strategy was created to address what was being called an alcohol crisis" in Prince Albert, Sask., there are reports that the city's drinking culture is changing."
TOKYO - Around half of elderly male drinkers aged 65 or older consume alcohol in excess of the Japanese government's health guideline of a 500-milliliter can of beer per day, a health ministry survey showed Sunday.