The United States has downgraded Thailand's attempts to tackle human trafficking, with the use of forced labour a major concern.

Covid-19 fatalities reached a new high for the third consecutive day, with the number of new cases also rising daily, and 34 provinces now reporting infected people arriving from Greater Bangkok.

KABUL: All US and Nato troops have left the biggest air base in Afghanistan, a US defence official told AFP Friday, signalling the complete withdrawal of foreign forces from the country after two decades of war was imminent.

A taxi driver was burned to death when his cab hit a 10-wheel truck and then burst into flames in Bangkok’s Prawet district around 5am on Friday.

The government will not impose additional restrictions to curb the surge in Covid-19, even though the death toll and infection rate are increasing daily, the chief of the Covid operations centre said on Friday.

CANSAULIM, India: Five centuries after Goans began making feni -- a pungent, fermented liquor not for the faint-hearted -- a new crop of distillers is hoping to take the spirit global.

An elderly man fell to his death from the three-storey building where he lived after his bed-ridden daughter was infected with the coronavirus disease and died.

Foreign funds are rushing out of Southeast Asian equities on concerns a coronavirus resurgence will dent the region’s economic recovery, and a slow vaccine rollout means the selloff may not reverse anytime soon.

TOKYO: It might not make the cut for Olympians at Tokyo 2020, but each day in Japan's parks, schools and offices millions perform the country's most popular stretching routine: radio taiso.

GENERAL SANTOS, Philippines: A two-year break from boxing has left Philippine legend Manny Pacquiao "hungry" to get back in the ring for what could be the last fight of his storied career -- and a warm-up for a presidential rumble.