PATTANI: A local man rammed his car into the motorcycle of two men who fired shots at him in Thung Yang Daeng district on Saturday morning before the attackers grabbed a motorcycle parked nearby and fled.

SHANGHAI: China will set up a new online platform to allow the public to track the emissions of polluters and help authorities prosecute those that break the rules or try to “evade supervision”, the environment ministry says.

A former police officer accused of shooting his girlfriend to death in Songkhla province and setting her body on fire has been arrested in Loei after nearly 10 years on the run.

BANGKOK/MELBOURNE: Sean Turnell, an Australian economic adviser to Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi, said in a message to Reuters on Saturday he was being detained, days after she was overthrown in a coup.

A second senior leader of a vast drug syndicate has been arrested, a Thai narcotics official said, as a transnational dragnet tightens on the Sam Gor group, which police say dominates the $70 billion annual Asia-Pacific drug trade.

A total of 490 new Covid-19 cases — 479 local infections and 11 imported — were reported on Saturday, raising the total to 23,134 with no new deaths.

The Bangkok governor election is likely to be held by October, says Election Commission (EC) secretary-general Jarungvith Phumma.

YANGON: Myanmar's military rulers have broadened a crackdown on social media in a bid to stifle growing signs of popular dissent, as a UN envoy made direct contact with the new regime to pressure it into reversing this week's coup.

Employees of private firms can begin registering for their slice of a new 4,000-baht financial relief package from Feb 16, according to Labour Minister Suchart Chomklin.

Fuel consumption in Thailand contracted in January, especially for jet fuel, following the return of Covid-19 in mid-December last year, according to the Department of Energy Business (DOEB).