The massive rally in fertilisers is coming for rice, a staple food for half of the world’s population, with farmers in one of the top exporters bracing for exorbitant prices of crop nutrients in the coming planting season.

MANILA: The Philippines justice ministry will review thousands of killings in President Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs, its chief said, after releasing details of a first batch of cases that it said pointed to abuses by police.

SAMUT PRAKAN: A fire at a shoe factory in Bang Phli district on Tuesday night caused an estimated 100 million baht damage, but no injuries.

KHON KAEN: More than 200 customers were arrested when police, administrative, drug-suppression and health officials raided a restaurant serving alcohol in the small hours of Wednesday in defiance of Covid-19 restrictions.

DEHRADUN, India: More than 100 people have died in several days of massive flooding and devastating landslides that swept away roads and houses in India and Nepal, officials said Wednesday, with scores more missing.

Asia Aviation Plc, the operator of Thailand’s biggest budget carrier Thai AirAsia, plans to raise as much as 17.9 billion baht from new loans, share sales and convertible-debt offerings as it attempts to restock coffers depleted by the worst crisis...

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: Marahat Nakhon Ratchasima, the largest hospital in this northeastern province, was flooded early Wednesday morning after Lam Takhon canal overflowed.

PARIS: The world's nations are currently planning to produce more than double the amount of coal, oil and gas consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the United Nations said Wednesday.

LONDON: Major economies will produce more than double the amount of coal, oil and gas in 2030 than is consistent with meeting climate goals set in the 2015 Paris accord to curb global warming, the United Nations and researchers said on Wednesday.

KANCHANABURI: A total of 33 Myanmar job seekers were caught illegally crossing the border into Muang and Sai Yok districts of this western border province on Tuesday, police said.