PHUKET: This year's Vegetarian Festival in Phuket will be held from Oct 5-15 under stringent Covid-19 controls, with scaled-down activities and fewer participants, provincial governor Narong Woonciew said on Monday.

JAKARTA: Even as Indonesia wins cautious praise from some green groups for ambitious plans to cut carbon emissions, the world's biggest exporter of thermal coal shows no sign of weaning itself off the polluting fuel any time soon.

Reclusive Laos has locked down its capital Vientiane and barred travel between Covid-hit provinces, as cases soared to a record high.

KABUL: The Taliban's effective ban on women working sank in on Monday, sparking rage over the dramatic loss of rights after millions of female teachers and girls were barred from secondary school education.

HONG KONG - Asian markets sank Monday on fears about contagion from a possible collapse of teetering property giant China Evergrande, while sentiment was also dragged by the Federal Reserve's plans to taper monetary policy, surging Delta infections a...

People claiming to be officials of the Chulabhorn Royal Academy have used Facebook and LINE accounts displaying a fake CRA logo to lure people into ordering Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine, defrauding them of millions of baht, a senior official of the aca...

STUNG TRENG, Cambodia: Researchers are collecting samples from bats in northern Cambodia in a bid to understand the coronavirus pandemic, returning to a region where a very similar virus was found in the animals a decade ago.

HANOI: Vietnam's capital Hanoi will further ease its coronavirus restrictions from this week, the government said, with new cases on the decline and the majority of its adult population partially vaccinated.

LOS ANGELES: Here is a list of the winners in key categories for the 73rd Emmy Awards, which were handed out in Los Angeles on Sunday.

KANCHANABURI: Forty-seven Myanmar job seekers and their four guides were arrested after they illegally crossed the border into Thailand in Sai Yok district early on Monday morning, Lat Ya Task Force commander Col Yuthana Meecharoen said.