The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now waiting for the results of the Phase 3 trial of the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine on young children before it approves the vaccine for use on children as young as three years old.

Tourism and Sports Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn has confirmed Bangkok, Chon Buri, Phetchaburi, Prachuap Khiri Khan and Chiang Mai will begin implementing their tourism reopening plans on Oct 1 as planned.

The cabinet has approved measures to attract ‘high potential’ foreigners to stay in Thailand long term, with a five-year target of one million wealthy new residents.

Most leaders I speak with are now engaged in one or more types of transformation. Their business has changed, they are responding or getting ahead, but many are not seeing the expected transformation results. Why?

Forget about getting two AstraZeneca shots. The main Covid-19 vaccine regimen for Thailand from now on is Sinovac-AstraZeneca, says a senior health official.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has set up a panel to investigate a domestic satellite communications concession contract that expired on Friday which involved a company founded by former PM Thaksin Shinawatra.

The government will make 4.8 million doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine available for students aged 12-17 nationwide but their parents must accept the risks first, according to the Centre for Covid Situation Administration (CCSA).

The coalition government’s charter amendment bill sailed through the third reading at a joint sitting of parliament on Friday, with the requisite support of more than one-third of the senators.