HANOI: A noodle seller who became famous in Vietnam for a viral video that was widely viewed as mocking a top government official has been arrested, police said, the latest in a crackdown on critics of the country’s communist rulers.

A days-long search for the second man suspected of carrying out a deadly stabbing spree in a remote western Canadian Indigenous community has ended, with the 32-year-old dying after being taken into custody, police said.

The Constitutional Court has demanded the minutes of the Constitution Drafting Committee's 501st meeting, when they discussed Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's tenure, and will discuss the case again next Wednesday.

A rebound in foreign tourist arrivals into Thailand is pushing up the country's hotel occupancy rate from a record low during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a survey.

The price of cooking gas for household use will remain capped at 24.87 baht per kilogramme until the end of October, requiring a government subsidy of 7.87 baht per kg, the Energy Policy Administration Committee said on Thursday.

The Department of Special Investigation has summonsed Pattanapon "DJ Man" Minthakhin and his singer-wife Suteewan "Baitoey" Thaweesin to acknowledge three charges in connection with the Forex-3D online Ponzi fraud.

There were 19 more Covid-19 fatalities and 1,587 new patients admitted to hospitals on Wednesday, the Ministry of Public Health reported on Thursday.

UNITED NATIONS: A United Nations report published on Thursday argues that an unprecedented array of crises, chiefly among them Covid-19, has set human progress back five years and fueled a global wave of uncertainty.

Hours of widespread downpours, the heaviest in 20 years, left many parts of Bangkok grappling with floods that continued from Tuesday evening until early Wednesday morning. (Photos: Nutthawat Wicheanbut)

Chinese electric-car maker BYD Co signed a land purchase deal Thursday with WHA Corp, Thailand’s largest industrial-estates developer, to build its first electric vehicle (EV) production plant in Southeast Asia.