BURI RAM: A 24-year-old man was shot dead and three other people arrested during a clash with police in Prakhon Chai district on Friday, and 8,000 methamphetamine pills and 200 grammes of crystal meth seized.

Red-shirt leader Nattawut Saikuar has offered advice to young protesters, warning that their violent confrontations with authorities could end up with a win for those in power.

CHON BURI: The daily Covid-19 toll shows no sign of waning in this eastern province, with 11 more deaths and 1,408 new infections reported on Friday. New cases have topped 1,000 for 14 consecutive days.

Than Shwe, the former head of a junta that ruled Myanmar for nearly two decades, has been hospitalised Nay Pyi Taw and is in a stable condition after being tested for the coronavirus, according to media reports.

PTT Plc, whose sales account for about 10% of the nation’s economic output, is suddenly spending billions of dollars on electric-vehicle and renewable-energy companies and tilting its traditional businesses towards chemicals and plastics.

SAMUT SAKHON: Eleven more Covid-19 deaths and another 1,847 cases were reported on Friday in this dark-red zoned province.

MANILA: The Philippines will extend a ban on travellers from Thailand and nine other countries to the end of August because of concerns posed by the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus, the presidential spokesman said on Friday.

TAICHUNG, Taiwan: As he queued to board a flight out of Hong Kong to Taiwan last month, dissident artist Kacey Wong was painfully aware of the extra immigration officials brought in to scrutinise each departing passenger.

WASHINGTON: Thousands of American soldiers being sent to Afghanistan to evacuate embassy staff from Kabul as the Taliban push towards the city has revived painful US memories of the fall of Saigon.

WASHINGTON: Walking the equivalent of twice around the world during a life lasting 28 years, one wooly mammoth whose steps have been traced by researchers has proven the huge beast was a long-distance wanderer.