SINGAPORE - Singapore will cane scammers under a new law as the city-state grapples with financial crimes affecting thousands of people.

KANCHANABURI – Twenty-five illegal job seekers from Myanmar were found in a pickup truck parked at a deserted petrol station in Sai Yok district on Tuesday.

CEBU — At least five people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced as rains driven by Typhoon Kalmaegi flooded swathes of the central Philippines on Tuesday.

SA KAEO — Four Thais have been caught illegally crossing the border into Cambodia in Aranyaprathet district, admitting they intended to work as website administrators in Poipet.

The Thai army is continuing operations to clear landmines in border areas of Sa Kaeo province as part of efforts to safeguard national sovereignty and return farmland to local residents.

The Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (DES) has partnered with Google Cloud to offer free access to artificial intelligence (AI) tools in its Google AI Pro package to students for personal use for a full year.

Despite the global economic slowdown, Bangkok's ultra-luxury condo market continues to grow, fuelled by sustained demand from Thailand's wealthy elite and foreign investors, according to property consultancy Colliers Thailand.

Thai business operators expect 2026 to be another challenging year, urging caution as they navigate a sluggish economy.

The "Khon La Khrueng Plus" co-payment scheme is considered one of the world's most effective consumption stimulus programmes, founded on the principles of behavioural economics, according to an analysis by the Fiscal Policy Office (FPO).

The government has greenlit a scheme to tackle small borrowers' debt problems, enabling them to re-enter the formal financial system and ease their repayment burden.