Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) has scrapped a 17.8-billion-baht deal to buy a controlling stake in Bitkub Online, saying the country’s biggest digital asset exchange needs time to fix regulatory issues.

Five senior officers at Din Daeng police station were transferred and will be investigated following an unconfirmed 300,000-baht robbery at a gambling den operating illegally within their jurisdiction in Bangkok early Wednesday morning.

A brother of a local politician and boyfriend of a policewoman accused of physically abusing her maid, a former soldier, surrendered to police in Cha-am district of Phetchaburi province on Thursday.

Authorities in Myanmar have detained Britain's former ambassador to the Southeast Asian nation, two people with knowledge of the situation said on Thursday.

BEIJING: A crippling drought exacerbated by a record heat wave has spread out across half of China and reached the normally frigid Tibetan Plateau, according to official data released ahead of more searing temperatures on Thursday.

PHATTHALUNG: A gunman walked up behind a gambler and shot him dead during a hi-lo dice game at a funeral in Khuan Khanun district on Wednesday night.

Military-ruled Myanmar earned US$800 million from natural gas exports mainly to China and Thailand between April and July, the junta said in the state newspaper on Thursday.

There were 29 more Covid-19 fatalities and 2,002 new patients admitted to hospitals on Wednesday, the Ministry of Public Health reported on Thursday.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's veteran politician Mahathir Mohamad said on Thursday that the disgraced former premier Najib Razak, who he helped bring down, was likely to receive a royal pardon and be released from a 12-year jail sentence for graft that he...

Car sales in Thailand jumped 22.1% in July from a year earlier to 64,033 units, helped by an easing of Covid-19 curbs and last year's low base, the Federation of Thai Industries said on Thursday.