PHUKET: Four South Korean men have been arrested for working illegally, with one of them also wanted by Interpol for posting obscene pictures of children on the internet, immigration police said on Tuesday.

Health authorities have been successful in keeping migrant workers in Samut Sakhon in place as they battle to stop the spread of Covid-19, but are now wondering how best to stop gamblers moving around.

BEIJING - A year after the outbreak started, WHO experts are due in China for a highly politicised visit to explore the origins of the coronavirus, in a trip trailed by accusations of cover-ups, conspiracy and fears of a whitewash.

HONG KONG: Hong Kong's outgoing top judge made a plea on Tuesday to maintain judicial independence as China state media and a growing host of pro-Beijing figures call for an overhaul of how the financial hub's courts are run.

RATCHABURI: About 20 people, led by a Palang Pracharath MP, turned up at the City Office on Tuesday, voicing strong opposition to a proposed field hospital for Covid-19 patients at a military camp in Muang district.

ATLANTA: After an unprecedented campaign that mobilised Donald Trump and his White House successor Joe Biden, Georgians troop to the polls Tuesday for two closely-watched US Senate runoffs that could shape the first years of the new Democratic presid...

BRUSSELS: Belgian judges will decide on Tuesday whether to send a dozen suspected jihadist extremists to trial for their alleged roles in the March 2016 Brussels bombings.

NAKHON PHANOM: The current cold spell in upper Thailand has killed at least 10 tonnes of fish being raised in baskets in Tha Uthen distict.

Prime Minister Prayt Chan-o-cha on Tuesday rejected a proposal to completely seal off five provinces to stop the spread of Covid-19 disease, amid a surge in new cases.

The government on Tuesday recorded 527 new cases of the novel coronavirus, all but six of them local transmissions, for a total of 8,966 since the start of the pandemic in January 2020.