Thailand's Patty Tavatanakit shot a third-round 67 on Saturday to take a commanding five-shot lead into the final round of the ANA Inspiration major in Rancho Mirage, California, US.

JAKARTA: Flash floods unleashed by torrential heavy rains early on Sunday killed 23 people on Indonesia's island of Flores, injuring nine more while five went missing, as the tiny neighbouring nation of East Timor reported three deaths.

WASHINGTON: NASA's Ingenuity mini-helicopter has been dropped on the surface of Mars in preparation for its first flight, the US space agency said.

Prison visits have been banned nationwide for one month from April 5 to May 5 after 112 officials and inmates at the Narathiwat prison were reported to have been infected with Covid-19, Corrections Department director-general Aryut Sinthoppan said on...

Japanese ambassador to Thailand Kazuya Nashida has been infected with Covid-19, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said on Saturday, without providing details.

YANGON: Anti-coup demonstrators in Myanmar decorated boiled eggs on Easter Sunday in the latest protest as the military junta continues its brutal crackdown.

PARIS: In the Covid-19 intensive care unit of the Antony Private Hospital south of Paris, no bed stays free for long and medics wonder when their workload will finally peak.

Tens of thousands of Myanmar workers have gone on strike over the past two months, hoping that economic paralysis will force the hand of the wealthy generals who ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1.

LIANYUNGANG, China: Towering cranes work overtime swinging containers from cargo vessels in the eastern Chinese port of Lianyungang, racing to keep ahead of a perfect storm unleashed by the pandemic that has created gridlock in global shipping.

Thailand on Sunday added 96 new coronavirus cases, 87 of them locally transmitted, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 29,127. No new deaths were reported.