PATTANI: Three family members were killed and two pickup trucks burned when assailants opened fire on the vehicles, which burst into flames, in Sai Buri district on Saturday morning.

Operating hours of shopping malls, supermarkets and convenience stores will be shortened further in 18 high-risk provinces in an effort to reduce the spread of Covid-19, the Thai Retailers Association said on Saturday.

JAKARTA: Asean leaders prepared to begin Myanmar crisis talks on Saturday with junta leader Min Aung Hlaing, who has become the focus of international outrage over a military coup and crackdown that has left more than 700 dead.

Eight Covid-19 deaths and a record 2,839 new cases, 1,582 of them in Bangkok, were reported on Saturday, bringing the totals to 129 deaths and 53,022 cases.

BALI: Hopes of rescuing dozens aboard a missing Indonesian submarine faded Saturday as its oxygen reserves were believed to have run out, with the US and Australia joining the hunt in waters off Bali.

AYUTTHAYA: Twelve coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Ayutthaya province on Saturday, raising the total number of cases in this central province to 280.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha is reassuring Thais who overstayed in Malaysia that the government is looking for ways to bring them home.

About 50 people have been identified as "at-risk" and have self-isolated pending Covid-19 tests after Jarungvith Phumma, the secretary-general of the Election Commission (EC), contracted the virus.

WASHINGTON: The United States should resume Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccinations, an expert panel recommended to health authorities on Friday, after a pause prompted by blood clot concerns.

RAYONG: Pedigree cats confiscated by the Office of the Narcotics Control Board during a drugs raid have found a home with a feline fanatic after being put up for auction.