PHNOM PENH: A critically endangered giant barking deer has been spotted in Cambodia for the first time, in a boost for the country's wildlife preservation efforts, officials said on Friday.

PHUKET: Phuket authorities reaffirmed their readiness to reopen the island to vaccinated foreign tourists on July 1, as Deputy Prime Minister Supattanapong Punmeechaow and three other cabinet ministers arrived for an inspection on Friday

There were 44 more Covid-19 fatalities and 3,644 new cases over the past 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry reported on Friday morning.

The government will offer 50 billion baht in savings bonds next month to finance Covid-19 relief measures, the Finance Ministry said on Friday.

YANGON: Myanmar security forces seized a large cache of weapons on a truck bound for Mandalay this week, after arresting insurgents following a firefight in the country's second-biggest city, state media reported on Friday.

SYDNEY: Workers and residents in Sydney were ordered to stay home for a week on Friday, as authorities locked down several central areas of Australia's largest city to contain an outbreak of the highly contagious Delta variant of Covid-19.

The joint parliament sitting on Thursday passed only one out of 13 constitutional change bills in the first reading.

BEIJING: At least 18 people died and 16 were injured in a fire at a martial arts school in central China in the early hours of Friday, according to a local government statement.

CHON BURI: One more Covid-19 death and another 183 infections were reported in this eastern province on Friday, with 55 of them infected by other family members.

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