SURAT THANI: A fire broke out at a rubber glove factory in Kanchanadit district of this southern province on Sunday afternoon. There were no reports of deaths or injuries.

Immigration police have stepped up their border watch duty in Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai amid concern about a possible influx of Myanmar protesters fleeing a crackdown by authorities in Tachilek.

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: Demonstrators from the "People Go" group -- currently on a 247-kilometre march from Nakhon Ratchasima to Government House in Bangkok -- will on Sunday night stay overnight at the Pak Chong district town.

Myanmar’s anti-military protesters plan to hold their largest mass rally yet on Monday after two demonstrators were shot dead this weekend.

The government is promoting cannabis as a cash crop for the country’s farmers as another source of income, a senior official said on Sunday.

Philippine authorities evacuated tens of thousands of people in the south of the country on Sunday as tropical storm Dujuan approaches.

HONG KONG: Hong Kong and Singapore are in discussion again over the postponed travel bubble, with both cities mulling extra safeguards amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The first shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Malaysia on Sunday as the country is set to begin inoculating its people against the coronavirus on Wednesday.

A majority of people say provinces most affected by the second wave of the Covid-19 outbreak should get vaccines first, according to an opinion survey by the National Institute of Development Administration, or Nida Poll.

Thailand on Sunday added 92 new coronavirus cases, 38 of them from active testing, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 25,415. No new deaths were reported.