PHNOM PENH: Cambodia will begin offering a booster shot against Covid-19, switching between the AstraZeneca and Chinese Covid-19 vaccines in an effort to fight the spread of the coronavirus in the neighbouring country.

SYDNEY: YouTube said Sunday it had barred Sky News Australia from uploading new content for one week, citing concerns about Covid-19 misinformation.

PHITSANULOK: Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat Woramahawihan, a renowned Buddhist temple in this central northern province, has been closed from Aug 1-31 by the provincial communicable disease committee to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.

As Covid cases surge, some monks are donning PPE over their distinctive robes, delivering oxygen cylinders, taking nasal samples to help with testing, and even helping carry the dead to the crematoriums.

YANGON: Myanmar's top military commander Gen Min Aung Hlaing said on Sunday that his government would accept the dispatch of a special envoy agreed in April by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) to mediate among the parties and find a...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: Afghan government forces struggled against Taliban assaults on several major cities Sunday as the insurgents stepped up a nationwide offensive that saw a key airport in the south come under rocket fire overnight.

Why 2031? The next decade is likely to become seen as a milestone era during which the world accelerated into a period of development and prosperity having successfully turned the page of one of the worst chapters in modern history after Covid-19 sho...

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: Khu Khwang, the largest fresh market in the Nakhon Si Thammarat municipality, has been closed for seven days -- from Aug 1-7 -- after several traders were found to have been infected with Covid-19, the provincial communicable dis...

PHUKET: A Swiss man hanged himself in Thalang district of this southern resort province on Saturday, police said.

YANGON: Myanmar's military seized power on Feb 1, ousting the civilian government and arresting its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.