BEIJING: China's recent clampdowns on a range of industries including tech firms and the education sector will not detract from its goal of opening up the economy, state media said Wednesday, as Beijing rushes to reassure rattled investors.

SONGKHLA: Forty-five Thai workers arrested in Malaysia for illegal entry have been deported to Thailand. One of them was infected with Covid-19.

Industries sentiment declined for a fifth straight month in August to 16-month low, hurt by tougher restrictions to contain the country's biggest coronavirus outbreak and infections at factories, the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) said on Wednes...

For families struggling to survive on $150 a month in Bangkok's biggest slum, coronavirus swab tests are a luxury that few can afford.

There were 14,176 new Covid-19 cases and 228 more fatalities recorded during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry reported on Wednesday morning.

GENEVA: Two splendid diamond bracelets that belonged to French queen Marie-Antoinette will go under the hammer in Geneva later this year, the auction house Christie's said Wednesday.

PATTAYA: An overnight downpour left Pattaya City's roads inundated on Wednesday, and residents fed up with repeated flooding used social media to complain about authorities' continual failure to resolve the problem.

Political activist Nattawut Saikuar called off a planned rally at Asok intersection on Wednesday afternoon, saying he suspected police would waiting there to serve him with an arrest warrant.

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: Three markets and two communities in Pak Phanang district have been sealed off for at least seven days after hundreds of new Covid-19 cases were detected there.

CHIANG MAI: A young girl missing from her home in a remote village has been found safe in a hut where she was abandoned by her abductor as a sacrifice to the spirits of the forest and mountains.