PATHUM THANI: A local beauty queen has arranged a hotel and an apartment building in Pathum Thani as free quarantine facilities for at-risk people who test negative for Covid-19 but still want to isolate themselves.

Germany BioNTech said on Thursday it was not in talks with Thonburi Healthcare Group Plc about a sale of its vaccines.

BEIJING: The withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and seemingly unstoppable march of the Taliban opens a strategic door to China that is laden with both risk and opportunity.

SAINT PETERSBURG - At Saint Petersburg's historic Baltic Shipyard, cranes hover over the shining Neva River as hundreds of workers build four nuclear-powered ice-breakers.

There were a record 98 Covid-19 fatalities and 9,186 new cases reported over the past 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry said on Thursday morning.

Koh Samui opened to vaccinated foreign tourists on Thursday despite a nationwide surge in Covid-19 cases propelled by the Delta variant.

Energy company Global Power Synergy Plc (GPSC) on Thursday said it had acquired a 25% stake in a Taiwanese offshore wind farm for $500 million.

GENEVA: The World Trade Organization will host a ministerial meeting this week aimed at breathing life into drawn-out negotiations towards banning subsidies that favour overfishing, but numerous sticking points remain.

CHON BURI: Two more Covid-19 deaths and 523 new infections were reported in this eastern province, many cases linked to a cluster at a furniture factory and others caught from close relatives or colleagues.

AstraZeneca has asked Thailand to extend the timeline for the delivery of 61 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine by five months, a deputy minister said on Thursday, a move likely to disrupt further the country's sluggish vaccine rollout.