Asian businesses are coming under intense pressure to cut ties with the Myanmar military after this month's coup, with activists questioning whether such ventures benefit the wider population or fuel human rights abuses.

Forty-two of 47 people deemed at risk after contact with an infected medical student at Thammasat University have tested negative for Covid-19, with the other results pending.

At least 37 passengers were killed when a bus plunged into a canal in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday, police told AFP.

PATHUM THANI: The provincial governor has extended the closure of two adjacent wet markets in Thanyaburi district for nine more days as efforts continue to stop the spread of the Covid-19 cluster centred there.

SINGAPORE: Singapore's foreign minister on Tuesday spoke out about "alarming developments" in Myanmar but said he did not support widespread sanctions on the country in response to a coup there, which could hurt ordinary citizens.

Traveloka, Southeast Asia’s biggest online travel startup, is planning to list in the US this year to raise funds using a special purpose acquisition company, known as SPAC, according to Chief Executive Offer Ferry Unardi.

CHIANG MAI: Major drug seizures, netting 551 kilogrammes of heroin and 8 million methamphetamine pills, were made in Phrae province on Sunday and Monday, Pol Gen Suwat Jangyodsuk, the national police chief, said on Tuesday.

KHON KAEN: A young beauty pageant queen has died from injuries received in a car crash in Khon Kaen on Monday, the third fatality from the accident.

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: Led by Jatupat Boonpattararaksa, also known as Pai Dao Din, about 100 members of the "People Go" group of the People's Movement began a 247-kilometre protest march from Nakhon Ratchasima city to Bangkok on Tuesday.

The number of Covid-19 infections at Chulalongkorn University has risen to 22, with 13 of them being security guards.