Police arrested seven people for alleged involvement in the use of forced labour on fishing boats, during raids in Samut Prakan, Nonthaburi and Chanthaburi provinces on Thursday morning.

LONDON: Polls opened across the UK on Thursday in local and regional elections that could prove historic in Northern Ireland and heap further pressure on embattled Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

BEIJING: China's strict zero-Covid policy has led to a plunge in confidence among European companies operating in the country as supply chains are tangled, revenue projections fall and staff leave, according to a business group survey released Thursd...

NAKHON PHANOM: Two Lao men were caught unloading packages containing almost 100,000 methamphetamine pills from a long-tailed boat onto the Mekong River bank in Ban Phaeng district on Wednesday night.

SHENZHEN: European businesses in China are increasingly looking to shift their investments to other markets due to the country's strict Covid-19 containment measures and supply chain disruptions, the European Chamber of Commerce in China said on Thur...

Philippine presidential candidates will wrap up campaigning this week ahead of the May 9 election, in a contest that has shaped into a two-way race between the clear favourite Ferdinand Marcos Jr and his main rival Leni Robredo.

SONGKHLA: Fourteen illegal Myanmar migrants heading for promised jobs in Malaysia were arrested near the southern border in Sadao district in the early hours of Thursday.

The Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV2 virus is intrinsically as severe as previous variants, unlike assumptions made in previous studies that it was more transmissible but less severe, a large study in the United States has found.

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine: A Russian-announced ceasefire was due to begin Thursday at the besieged steel plant in the devastated Ukrainian city of Mariupol, to allow civilians to flee even as its defenders vowed to fight to the end.

HONG KONG: Hong Kong has emerged a more unequal city, its freedoms curtailed and international shine dulled after five years with Carrie Lam at the helm, analysts say, as her turbulent leadership draws to an end.