KANCHANABURI: Tourism in Kanchanaburi has gone quiet since provincial authorities suddenly ordered the closure of hotels and resorts to prevent the spread of Covid-19, leaving vendors bemoaning the plunge in their income.

Activists have clashed with police near Victory Monument in Bangkok after they invited people to write on a 112m-long strip of cloth what they feel about the government’s performance and the lese majeste law.

YANGON: Police in Myanmar scuffled on Saturday with dozens of followers of the ultra-nationalist monk Ashin Wirathu at a demonstration calling for him to be put on trial more than two months after he surrendered to face sedition charges.

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: A 38-year-old man has been arrested in Tha Sala district in this southern province for allegedly using drugs and raping his 13-year-old daughter for more than two months.

A Bangkok man died and 230 people were infected with Covid-19, bringing the totals to 70 deaths and 11,680 cases, according to the Covid-19 centre's daily report on Saturday.

NEW DELHI: India begins one of the world's biggest coronavirus vaccination programmes on Saturday, hoping to end a pandemic that has killed 150,000 people in the country and torpedoed the economy.

HONG KONG: Five Hong Kong democracy protesters who reportedly fled to Taiwan have arrived in the United States intending to seek asylum, an activist group said on Saturday.

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has cut rent rates at its 10 markets to ease the plight of vendors hit by the recent coronavirus outbreak.

The chief executive of a major mobile operator who requested anonymity says the newly formed National Telecom (NT) should focus on telecom infrastructure-sharing and serving the government's public-concentrated Universal Service Obligation (USO) proj...

The opposition camp has agreed to submit a no-confidence motion against the government on Jan 25.