The House of Representatives unanimously voted for an opposition-sponsored motion calling for a referendum on the charter rewrite after the voting was deferred for more than one month.

Financial markets in Vietnam, Asia’s fastest-growing economy, are in an unsettling slide as a crackdown on property lending, a falling currency and rising interest rates heap pressure on banks and rattle confidence.

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: A pickup driver was killed and seven young children and a school bus driver slightly injured when the two vehicles collided in Bang Khan district on Thursday morning.

Thai stocks may test their previous record level next year on optimism that a return of international tourists will boost economic growth and corporate earnings, according to SCB Asset Management.

Aviation fuel supplied to junta-ruled Myanmar for civilian planes is being diverted to the military, whose air force has been linked to war crimes, Amnesty International said on Thursday.

Atthaya Thitikul took up golf as a sickly six-year-old to improve her poor health. Now she has joined Tiger Woods as one of the sport’s youngest world number ones.

A prominent child rights advocate accused of physically assaulting children and using child labour reported to police in Samut Sakhon to hear the charges on Thursday.

Smog in New Delhi hit "hazardous" levels on Thursday as smoke from thousands of crop fires in northern India combined with other pollutants to create a noxious grey cocktail enveloping the megacity.

MANILA: The death toll from a powerful storm that triggered flooding and landslides across the Philippines has reached 150, disaster officials said Thursday, as more rain was forecast in some of the hardest-hit areas.

Ant Group Co’s Singapore digital wholesale bank will start offering loans to small and medium-sized businesses, as the Chinese fintech giant extends its reach in the city-state.