Police have dismantled a Chinese gang accused of staging a fake kidnapping of a 19-year-old woman in order to extort ransom money from her father, arresting four suspects, including her boyfriend, who was also wanted in China in an online scam case.

Songkran revellers are being encouraged to donate their water guns for plastic recycling at nine locations in Bangkok, most of them at popular shopping malls, this coming Sunday, City Hall said on Thursday.

JAKARTA - ⁠Indonesia’s ⁠chief ombudsman has been arrested just six days ​after his ‌appointment for allegedly taking a bribe from a local nickel company, authorities said on Thursday.

ISTANBUL - Turkey will hold funerals for nine victims killed in a school shooting by a 14-year-old, an attack that has sent shockwaves across the country, with authorities saying the suspect had referenced a US mass killer in a WhatsApp profile image...

A sightseeing route that runs through the Tateyama mountain range in central Japan fully opened Wednesday for this year's tourist season, featuring tall snow walls.

Traffic accidents and injuries over the first six “dangerous days” of the Songkran holiday were down by 20% from the same period a year ago, while fatalities declined by 6.5%, according to data released on Thursday.

PARIS - Could planes soon be stuck on the ground due to a lack of fuel? The risk of jet fuel shortages is growing each day the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, although it isn’t certain when exactly supplies will run out.

WASHINGTON - Thailand faces slower growth this year due to the Iran war and there are almost "no limits" to worst-case economic scenarios if the conflict continues, a senior Bank of Thailand official told Reuters.

SINGAPORE - Foreign investors are selling Thai assets as an energy shock from the US-Israeli war on Iran threatens to snuff out hopes ​for an economic revival under Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul and exposes the policy paralysis that is grippin...

Semiconductors are becoming increasingly scarce as booming demand from artificial intelligence (AI), data centres and cloud services reshapes the global market, according to Supant Mongkolsuthree, honorary chairman of the Federation of Thai Industrie...