Everyone in Thailand - Thais and foreigners, including migrant workers - will have access to quality and safe Covid-19 vaccines, a government spokesperson said on Thursday.

TOKYO: Japan's Olympic minister Seiko Hashimoto became Tokyo 2020's new president on Thursday, capping an embarrassing sexism row with just over five months until the virus-postponed Games.

The economy is expected to expand this year more slowly than previously forecast because of a resurgence in coronavirus cases, the central bank said, singling out an uncertain recovery in tourist arrivals as a “major risk” to the medium-term outl...

The business resumption sub-committee of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration will propose that disease control measures be relaxed in 54 provinces, up from the current 35.

PATHUM THANI: About 37 tonnes of used rubber gloves being washed and packed for resale were seized and a woman arrested when police raided a warehouse in Lat Lum Kaeo district.

The government on Thursday reported 150 new Covid-19 cases, comprising 142 local infections and eight imported, raising the total to 25,111.

A doctor in Maha Sarakham has died from Covid-19, the first Thai physician killed by the disease.

TAK: Soldiers arrested 13 Thais in a sugarcane plantation in Mae Sot district after they sneaked back across the border from Myanmar, where they had been working at a casino in Myawaddy, on Wednesday afternoon.

KUALA LUMPUR: Prices of popular gadgets such as PlayStations and iPhones could rise because of microchip shortages caused by a "perfect storm" of coronavirus-driven demand, supply chain disruptions and trade war stockpiling, experts warn.

YANGON: Hackers attacked military-run government websites in Myanmar on Thursday as a cyber war erupted after authorities shut down the internet for a fourth straight night.