NAKHON RATCHASIMA: A large quantity of drugs, mainly methamphetamine and ecstasy, was seized and seven suspects arrested by police in Bua Lai district on Saturday.

KANCHANABURI: The new skywalk along the River Kwai was closed only hours after it was opened, after running out of the special shoes visitors must buy to enjoy the province's latest attraction.

New Zealand will eventually become a republic and drop the British monarch as its head of state, but not anytime soon, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.

The cabinet is expected to approve measures to curb the rising price of energy at its weekly meeting on Tuesday, according to Energy Minister Supattanapong Punmeechaow.

Capital A Bhd, the parent of Malaysian budget airline AirAsia, said on Monday its Teleport cargo arm would add three Airbus SE A321 freighters to its fleet starting in the first quarter of 2023.

There were 15 more Covid-19 fatalities and 698 new patients admitted to hospitals on Sunday, the Ministry of Public Health reported on Monday.

NARATHIWAT: A pickup carrying army rangers on a supplies run was damaged when a bomb exploded on a rural road in Si Sakhon district on Monday morning, causing no casualties, police said.

PRACHIN BURI: A national park ranger was killed by a wild elephant while trying to chase it away from village farms in Nadi district of this eastern province late on Sunday night.

WASHINGTON: Western governments are mobilizing their arms manufacturers to ramp up production and replenish stockpiles heavily diminished by supplying Ukraine's six-month-old battle against Russia's invasion.

SONGKHLA: A Vietnamese fishing boat went up in flames and sank after it was caught trawling in Thai waters and its five crewmen arrested in the Gulf of Thailand off this southern province on Sunday.