Thailand registered 68 more Covid-19 fatalities and 24,592 new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Saturday morning.

The government will maintain the cap on diesel prices at 30 baht a litre using subsidies from the Oil Fund until the end of May when a 40-billion-baht loan supporting the subsidy scheme is expected to be depleted.

The Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) is calling on the government to temporarily waive the diesel excise tax to allow it to better manage borrowing to continue the diesel price subsidy programme.

Friends, fans and family members gathered in a Bangkok church on Friday for an emotional farewell to Nida “Tangmo” Patcharaveerapong on the first of three days of funeral prayers.

A Thai woman who was rescued from a call centre gang in Cambodia she was lured into working for has recounted the horror of her ordeal including being tortured and later abducted.

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is preparing a plan to relax travel rules in line with the timeline to declare Covid-19 an endemic disease on July 1.

Thailand has confirmed its neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, saying it remains committed to a balanced foreign policy that is in the country's best interests.

An ambitious vaccination campaign for the elderly will be rolled out later this month to prevent a surge in Covid-19 cases during the Songkran festival in mid-April.

Sorapong "Ek" Chatree, a national artist and veteran actor, died of lung cancer at Bumrungrad Hospital on Thursday afternoon. He was 71 years old.

MELBOURNE: A private jet flew the body of Australian cricket superstar Shane Warne home to his native Melbourne Thursday, six days after his death at the age of 52 provoked shock and grief around the world.