HONG KONG: China has passed a family education law that requires parents and guardians to reduce the "twin pressures" of homework and private tutoring on children.

KANCHANABURI: Operators of shacks selling miscellaneous items along Highway 323 in Sangkhla Buri district have been ordered to demolish them following a report that they have provided shelter for illegal border crossers.

Myanmar's military rulers pledged on Sunday to cooperate "as much as possible" with a peace plan agreed with Asean, despite a stern rebuke of the regional bloc for excluding the country's top commander from a summit this week.

A recent opinion survey by the National Institute of Development Administration, or Nida Poll, found the opposition Pheu Thai Party is still popular in the Northeast although many voters are undecided whether to vote for the party in the next general...

SAMUT PRAKAN: A man was killed after a car he was driving rammed into the rear of a six-wheeled lorry parked on a roadside in Bang Phli district on Saturday night.

People find the co-payment programme, one of the measures taken by the government to cushion impacts from Covid-19, most favourable to them, according to the result of an opinion survey by Suan Dusit Rajabhat University, or Suan Dusit Poll.

BOGOTA - Colombia's most-wanted drug trafficker "Otoniel" has been captured, officials said Saturday, a major victory for the government of the world's top cocaine exporter.

BANGKOK: As gin bottles gather dust, a Bangkok bar owner is trying to keep his joint going through a Covid booze ban with fruity mocktails seasoned with kratom, a recently decriminalised tropical herb.

Thamanat Prompow, secretary-general of the ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP), has defended a popularity poll conducted by his faction last week which gave discouraging results for some party MPs.

There were 9,351 new Covid-19 cases and 56 more fatalities recorded during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Sunday morning.