As the war in Ukraine pushes up wheat prices and a weaker peso raises the cost of imported edible oil, many Philippine bakers are shrinking the size of a popular breakfast roll to cope with higher inflation.

Zipmex, the stricken cryptocurrency exchange that operates in Thailand and other Southeast Asian markets, said on Sunday it was considering a possible offer after talks with interested parties and due diligence should commence.

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: An elderly man was killed after a motorcycle sidecar he was driving was hit from behind by a pickup in Phrom Khiri district on Sunday morning.

SURAT THANI: A tourist from the Netherlands, who broke his left ankle while on a mountain trek in the island district of Koh Phangan on Saturday, was brought down to safety by rescuers late in the night, officials said.

Panphet Phadungchai, a Thai boxer, who suffered a brain injury in a knockout loss to Anthony TFC, a Thai-style or Muay Thai boxer from France, at a Fighter X Show at the Thupatemi Air Force boxing stadium on July 15, died on Saturday at 7.30pm.

Liverpool is most the popular team in the English Premier League for Thai football fans, followed closely behind by Manchester United, according to a survey by the National Institute of Development Administration, or Nida Poll.

WASHINGTON: US central bankers face an increasingly difficult balancing act as they struggle to douse scorching inflation while still keeping the economy growing, though they have made it clear they are willing to risk a recession.

The country registered 2,390 more Covid-19 in-patients and 29 new fatalities during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Sunday morning, with the number of deaths and severe cases gradually rising over the past week.

Thai workers are expected to travel in droves to South Korea which is welcoming back foreign workers without quarantine requirements.

Street food vendors have expressed mixed feelings about the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration's (BMA) plan to relocate them to new hawker centres in the capital to better manage them.