The Myanmar military’s disinformation was crude but effective.

PHUKET: Authorities have asked 157 passengers on board seven recent domestic flights to or from Phuket to take Covid-19 tests and go into quarantine as they were deemed at risk of contracting passengers who were found to have been infected.

Thailand on Saturday reported 21 new coronavirus deaths, setting a new daily record and raising fatalities to 224, while 1,891 new cases brought the total to 67,044.

BANGKOK: Myanmar's deposed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi completed a third month under military-ordered house arrest Saturday -- a period marked by scatter-gun criminal charges and apparent isolation from the chaos engulfing the country.

Unity within the government remains intact and coalition parties will stick together to tackle the country's problems, according to government spokesman Anucha Burapachaisri.

PHETCHABURI: Park authorities have launched an investigation into a wildlife poaching network in Kaeng Krachan National Park following the recent discovery of wild elephant bones and spent bullets by a forest patrol unit, according to local officials...

A labour group yesterday called on the government to speed up Covid-19 vaccine distribution to all the country's workers, including migrants, as part of their demands to mark Labour Day on Saturday.

BUENOS AIRES: Argentine football icon Diego Maradona received inadequate medical care and was left to his fate for a "prolonged, agonising period" before he died last year, an expert medical panel concluded Friday.

ANAHEIM, United States: Fans wearing Mickey Mouse ears lined up as Disneyland in California finally reopened Friday, more than 400 days after the pandemic forced an unprecedented closure for the self-styled "Happiest Place on Earth."

UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council failed to agree Friday on a joint statement on the crisis in Myanmar after a closed-door meeting, with diplomats blaming Beijing -- the junta's main backer -- and Russia for raising objections and putting forwa...