A Chinese couple have been arrested after 4 kilogrammes of heroin were found inside a parcel they mailed to Australia from Thailand.

MOSCOW: Hundreds gathered Tuesday for the Moscow funeral of Daria Dugina, the daughter of a prominent ultranationalist intellectual who was killed in a car bombing that Russia blames on Ukraine.

JAKARTA: Indonesia's central bank raised its benchmark interest rate for the first time since 2018 on Tuesday, stepping up monetary tightening to fight rising inflation.

SINGAPORE: Singapore's key consumer price gauge in July rose again at its fastest pace in more than 13 years, official data showed on Tuesday, mounting pressure on the central bank to consider another policy tightening move later this year.

Members of a gang who falsely represented themselves as agents for a loan company, collecting fees but lending no money, have been arrested in Chachoengsao province.

There were 26 more Covid-19 fatalities and 1,488 new patients admitted to hospitals on Monday, the Ministry of Public Health reported on Tuesday.

CHIANG RAI: Police seized 6.4 million methamphetamine pills following a car chase in Chiang Khong district early on Sunday.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr suspended government work and classes in public schools in the capital and nearby areas for Aug 23 to 24 due to a tropical storm.

People aged 22-41 years, the so-called Gen Y, spend the most time on the internet and they form the biggest group using it for live commerce, according to a government survey.

UNITED NATIONS, US: Members of the United Nations Security Council remained divided Monday over whether to exempt some of Afghanistan's Taliban officials from a travel ban, diplomatic sources said.