The Food and Drug Administration has approved and registered four rapid antigen Covid-19 test kits for home use.

Syn Mun Kong Insurance on Friday announced it was cancelling its Covid-19 insurance policies with customers, saying the rapidly deteriorating situation made the risk unmanageable.

CHIANG MAI: An army patrol has seized almost 4 million speed pills abandoned by fleeing smugglers near the Myanmar border in Fang district of this northern province.

Thailand's monetary policy has to be accommodative to enable fiscal policy to work fully to help the economy, the finance minister said on Friday as the country deals with its worst coronavirus outbreak so far.

HONG KONG: People who received BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine had ten times the amount of antibodies than those given China's Sinovac, a Hong Kong study has shown, adding to growing data on different jabs' effectiveness.

There were 67 Covid-19 fatalities and 9,692 new cases over the past 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry reported on Friday morning.

BEIJING: China, the world's biggest carbon emitter, launched its long-awaited emissions trading system on Friday, a key tool in its quest to drive down climate change-causing greenhouse gases and go carbon neutral by 2060.

Two Thais and a Nigerian have been arrested after packages containing crystal methamphetamine were found hidden in mattresses ready for shipment to Hong Kong.

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: More than 700 people infected with Covid-19 have already sought and been given permission to return home for treatment in Nakhon Ratchasima and there are still beds available for more, a senior health official said on Friday.

BAD NEUENAHR-AHRWEILER, Germany: Emergency responders were on Friday still searching for hundreds of missing people after the worst floods in living memory killed at least 59 people in the country's west.