KANCHANABURI: Eighty-seven job seekers from Myanmar and a Thai driver were arrested in two separate operations after they illegally crossed the border into Thailand in Thong Pha Phum and Sangkhla Buri districts on Tuesday, police said.

CHIANG RAI: Six drug smugglers were killed and 1.8 million methamphetamine pills seized in a clash between traffickers and an army border patrol in Mae Fa Luang district early on Tuesday.

KANCHANABURI: Local authorities announced on Tuesday the River Khwai Bridge Week festival would go ahead next month for fully vaccinated people and those testing negative for Covid-19.

A shadow government in Myanmar said it has raised $6.3 million on the opening day of its inaugural bonds sale, in its biggest move yet to generate funds for its "revolution" to topple the ruling military junta.

Thailand welcomed 20,272 foreign tourists in October, up from 1,201 foreign arrivals in the same period a year earlier, government data showed, due to a pilot tourism programme on the islands of Phuket and Samui.

Several European countries are willing to donate vaccines to Thailand, Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai said on Tuesday.

The United Nations refugee agency has condemned Thailand for deporting a third Cambodian refugee in two weeks, after a former female politician was sent back to a Phnom Penh jail.

Police have detained a temple caretaker and two associates and seized and returned to the abbot about 63 million baht the trio allegedly embezzled from donated temple funds.

SOFIA: At least 45 people, including a dozen minors, were killed after a bus caught fire south of the Bulgarian capital early Tuesday morning, officials said.

There were 5,126 new Covid-19 cases and 53 more fatalities registered during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry reported on Tuesday morning.