Shares tied to reopening trades from casinos to airlines surged in Asia on Monday after Pfizer Inc said that its Covid-19 pill could reduce hospitalisations and deaths in high-risk patients by 89%.

A man who posted a video showing him hanging his three-year-old daughter by the neck with a rope on his Facebook page has been arrested and charged with attempted murder, Metropolitan Police Bureau commissioner Pol Lt Gen Samran Nualma said on Monday...

BEIJING: China's military has built mockups in the shape of a US Navy aircraft carrier and other US warships, possibly as training targets, in the desert of Xinjiang, satellite images by Maxar showed on Sunday.

SEOUL: South Koreans are rushing to register or renew passports as they are ready for overseas travel they had contained for two years in line with the reopening of borders across the globe.

TOKYO: Japan's government started on Monday accepting applications for sharply reduced Covid-19 quarantine periods for vaccinated business travellers, ending a ban in principle on entry by overseas-based foreign business people introduced in January.

The beginning of the end of cheap money was heralded as the moment emerging-market stocks would reverse a decade spent in the shadow of their developed-nation peers.

Thailand's industries sentiment rose for a second straight month in October to a five-month high, bolstered by improved economic activity following an easing of coronavirus curbs, including a travel reopening, an industries group said on Monday.

JAKARTA: Indonesia plans to give booster shots to the general public after 50% of its population has been fully vaccinated, its health minister said on Monday, which he expects to happen at the end of next month.

There were 7,592 new Covid-19 cases and 39 more fatalities recorded during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry reported on Monday morning.

NAKHON SAWAN: The body of a man missing since his car plunged into the Chao Phraya river on Friday night was found on the river bank in Krok Phra district of this upper Central province on Monday morning, police said.