SURIN: The Chong Chom checkpoint on the border with Cambodia reopened on Friday, two years after it was closed by the arrival of the Covid-19 epidemic.

A runaway groom who abandoned his bride on their wedding day in Prachin Buri province was not a soldier serving in the South, as he had claimed to be, a Royal Thai Army spokeswoman said on Friday.

There were 62 more Covid-19 fatalities and 7,705 confirmed new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) reported on Friday.

Japan has launched a trading platform in Bangkok to increase exports of Japanese foodstuffs to Thailand and further promote Japanese cuisine in the kingdom.

MANILA: Philippine election rivals traded allegations of dirty tricks and vote-rigging Friday, in the final stretch of an acerbic campaign that is tipped to bring the son of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos to power.

Embattled former Democrat deputy leader Prinn Panitchpakdi was on Friday charged with molesting a 26-year-old woman at a condominium, a complaint registered 18 months ago.

SINGAPORE: Singapore's high court has convicted two people over what authorities consider to be the largest market manipulation case in the city-state, a joint statement by the Singapore police and Monetary Authority of Singapore said on Thursday.

CHIANG MAI: Five suspects were arrested and one million methamphetamine pills seized following a police drug-stop in Chiang Dao district.

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine: A new UN convoy was expected in Mariupol Friday to evacuate civilians from the "bleak hell" of a besieged steel plant that has become the last pocket of resistance against invading Russian forces in the southern port city.

Intersect Design Factory has apologised for a controversial video posted on Lazada 5.5 promotions featuring two women, one in a wheelchair, as part of a promotion for the online commerce platform.