Indonesia’s stock benchmark closed at a fresh record high on Thursday amid signs of an economic recovery.

DUWAYSāT, Syria: Low rainfall, structural damage and extraction by struggling farmers have emptied a key reservoir in northwestern Syria, leaving it completely dry for the first time, farmers and officials told AFP.

A Myanmar ethnic rebel group has locked down a town on the porous China border following a Covid-19 spike, it said Thursday, as Beijing battles a Delta-driven outbreak that has spread across the country.

Student organisations at major universities on Thursday rejected the Constitutional Court's ruling that three anti-government rally leaders tried to overthrow the constitutional monarchy.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will reopen its borders to international visitors by Jan 1 at the latest, a government advisory council said on Thursday, as the country seeks to revive its ailing tourism sector.

KANCHANABURI: Another 101 job seekers from Myanmar were arrested after they crossed the border into Thailand illegally in Sai Yok district on Thursday.

NAKHON SAWAN: The prime suspect in the knife-murder of a wealthy woman and wounding of her girlfriend's son at a house in Muang district on Tuesday surrendered to police on Thursday.

There were 7,496 new Covid-19 cases and 57 more fatalities registered during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry reported on Thursday morning.

BEIJING: Beijing sealed off a large downtown mall and locked down several residential communities Thursday in response to a recent Covid flare-up, as the latest nationwide wave spread to the capital's central districts.

TOKYO: A Japanese train driver is suing his employer after his wages were docked 56 yen (16 baht) over a minute-long delay to the country's famously punctual rail system, the company said on Thursday.