Destry Damayanti has been nominated as the sole candidate for the job, said a presidential spokesman.

Former Thai MP Chalong Riewrang was arrested and taken to the police station, said the Nonthaburi police chief.

Thai police are seeking to charge the bar's owner with six offences, including negligence causing death, serious injury, harm and fire, as well as criminal mischief and running an entertainment venue without a licence.

But experts warn that blanket bans could backfire, arguing that stronger platform safeguards, counselling and parental involvement may be more effective.

The prime minister, who turned 79 on Monday and has been in office since 2022, has had recurrent shoulder and back problems.

More than 120 personnel, three water-bombing helicopters, drones and some fire trucks have been deployed to put out the fires around the caldera, an official said.

At the centre of the crisis is Lemyethna township, where the Ngawun River embankment was breached on the night of Jul 30, sending floodwaters into villages and farmland.

The eighth victim of the home and school shooting on Friday died in hospital after suffering gunshot wounds.

It emerged in local media last week that the Korea Football Association had provided foreign referees with sexual entertainment in 2011 and 2012.

Police said the 14-year-old boy had used social media to learn how to use a firearm, before turning a gun on his grandparents, schoolmates and then himself.

The storm is expected to continue into Monday with sustained winds of up to 162kmh before weakening and moving inland.

The ⁠raging fire has burned an area of ​around 176ha at the active volcano site that is a popular tourist destination. 

Indonesia wants to relocate families living beside railway tracks to newly built housing, starting with Jakarta before expanding the programme nationwide.

Nine people are dead and another 23 wounded in Thailand's worst mass shooting since 2022.

Fourteen people remain hospitalised, of whom seven remain in critical condition on Saturday, according to Thailand’s Health Ministry.