NAKHON PHANOM: Border patrol police (BPP) seized 920 kilogrammes of dried marijuana smuggled across the Mekong river from Laos in this northeastern province in the small hours on Sunday.

Police have piled shipping containers outside the 1st Infantry Regiment in Bangkok to block pro-democracy protesters from approaching the barracks on Sunday in their latest rally against Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.

HONG KONG: Dozens of Hong Kong dissidents were charged with subversion on Sunday in the largest use yet by police of Beijing's sweeping new national security law, as authorities seek to cripple the finance hub's democracy movement.

DHAKA: Dozens were injured on Sunday as Bangladeshi police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at opposition activists to prevent new protests over the death of a writer in jail, police and a party official said.

KHON KAEN: Police seized 30,000 methamphetamine pills stuffed in a school backpack found abandoned on a roadside in Nam Phong district on Sunday morning.

PHUKET: A section of about 35 metres of the road around the Khlong Kratha reservoir in Muang district of this southern island resort province has collapsed, posing a danger to motorists.

YANGON: Myanmar security forces violently dispersed anti-coup rallies around the country on Sunday, with reports of at least three protesters killed in the crackdown.

PARIS: Investors are watching inflation carefully, worried that a boiling over of prices will ruin the expected strong pandemic recovery although analysts believe Europe faces much less of a risk than the United States.

The government reported 70 new Covid-10 cases Sunday, 62 local transmissions and eight from abroad, for an accumulated total of 25,951 since the pandemic began early last year.

A majority of people are satisfied with relief measures taken by the government to mitigate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, but say there are too many conditions attached, according to an opinion survey by the Suan Dusit Rajabhat University, or ...