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Sat, 02 Jul 2022 14:10:00 +0700
2,508 new Covid cases, 17 more deaths
The country registered 17 more Covid-19 fatalities and 2,508 new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Saturday morning.

Sat, 02 Jul 2022 13:18:00 +0700
Banpu completes Texas gas field acquisition
The SET-listed energy company Banpu Plc says it has completed the acquisition of natural gas and midstream assets in a shale field in the US state of Texas from two subsidiaries of Exxon Mobil Corporation.

Sat, 02 Jul 2022 13:17:00 +0700
Dialogue with Suu Kyi 'not impossible', says junta
Dialogue between Myanmar’s military junta and ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to end the bloody crisis unleashed by the toppling of her government last year is “not impossible”, a junta spokesman has said.

Sat, 02 Jul 2022 12:23:00 +0700
43 illegal job seekers from Myanmar arrested in southern provinces
SONGKHLA/PHATTHALUNG: Forty-three Myanmar nationals who entered the country illegally to get jobs in Malaysia and seven Thai smugglers were arrested in two separate police operations in these two southern provinces on Friday.

Sat, 02 Jul 2022 12:18:00 +0700
Rare tortoises lay eggs in southern Thailand
SONGKHLA: Three endangered Asian forest tortoises have laid a total of 91 eggs at Songkhla Zoo in this southern province.

Sat, 02 Jul 2022 10:18:00 +0700
Kentucky man shoots 6 officers, killing 2
Two law enforcement officers were killed, and four other officers were shot Thursday night after a man barricaded in his home opened fire with a rifle in Allen, Kentucky, a rural town so small that it lacks its own police force, authorities said.

Sat, 02 Jul 2022 09:00:00 +0700
Crisis to crisis: What Asia learned from the financial chaos of 1997
Twenty-five years ago this month marked the beginning of economic, political and financial market turmoil that would become known as the Asian Financial Crisis. Currencies and stock markets tumbled. Governments were overthrown. Poverty rates soared.

Sat, 02 Jul 2022 08:00:00 +0700
Krungthep Thanakhom ponders government intervention
The board of Krungthep Thanakhom (KT), the business arm of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), is considering two options involving government intervention to help solve issues surrounding two Green Line extensions.

Sat, 02 Jul 2022 07:00:00 +0700
Made-to-order food price hikes below inflation -- just
The average price of made-to-order food per dish rose by 3.66 baht or 6.7% in May, according to a year-on-year comparison by Line Man Wongnai, operator of a popular food delivery platform.

Sat, 02 Jul 2022 06:33:00 +0700
Lax ganja rules seen as toxic threat to kids
Thirty three organisations have called for the government to regulate the recreational use of cannabis and ban young people from legally accessing it.



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