A military contractor at the centre of a major US Navy corruption scandal in Thailand and elsewhere in Asia has been arrested in Venezuela, where he had fled after escaping house arrest in California.

Acting prime minister Prawit Wongsuwon, who earlier this week called for measures to halt the baht’s slide, said on Thursday the government won’t meddle with the central bank and how it handles the currency.

HONG KONG: Hong Kong will scrap its controversial Covid-19 hotel quarantine policy for all arrivals from early October, more than two and a half years after it was first adopted, according to local reports.

BURI RAM: A 34-year-old man stabbed his mother, inflicting serious wounds, before taking his own life with a knife at their house in Satuk district on Wednesday night, police said.

Cambodia's United Nations-backed Khmer Rouge war crimes court gave its final verdict Thursday, upholding the genocide conviction and life sentence imposed on the regime's last surviving leader.

Visitors will not be required to show their Covid-19 vaccination or test certificates and infected people with mild or no symptoms will not need to enter isolation from Oct 1.

HANOI: Vietnam is not in a deal with Thailand to jointly raise rice prices, Le Minh Hoan, Vietnam's Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Le Minh Hoan said on Thursday.

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: Passengers fled in fear of their lives when an inter-provincial bus burst into flames in Sida district early on Thursday morning. There were no injuries.

Domestic car sales surged 61.72% in August from a year earlier to 68,208 units, helped by an easing of Covid-19 curbs and a low baseline last year, the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) said on Thursday.

Teachers at a Myanmar school hit by a military helicopter attack last week have spoken of the terrifying horror of the onslaught -- including watching a wounded child screaming in agony, begging to die.