GAZA - As battles raged on the outskirts of Rafah on Wednesday with Israeli forces closing in, Palestinians were on the move again, abandoning neighbourhoods of the southern Gaza city and leaving them as ghost towns.
The world just experienced its hottest April on record, extending an 11-month streak in which every month set a temperature record, the European Union’s climate change monitoring service said on Wednesday.
Former deputy prime minister Wissanu Krea-ngam has been appointed chairman of the board of directors of Bangkok Post Plc, succeeding Suthikiati Chirathivat, effective from May 9.
The government has added a new condition for its digital wallet handout, saying recipients must not have more than 500,000 baht in their deposit accounts as of March 31.
Thailand can still consider bidding for future Fifa World Cups, banking on its credibility as host of Southeast Asia’s first Fifa World Congress later this month, says new Tourism and Sports Minister Sermsak Pongpanit.
Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin made an urgent call on Wednesday to Krisada Chinavicharana, asking the deputy finance minister to reconsider his decision to step down.
Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin on Wednesday reiterated his determination that cannabis would be relisted as a narcotic by the end of 2024, as he announced a get-tough approach to illicit drugs.
SAMUT PRAKAN: A 26-year-old man who later admitted to being high on drugs has been arrested for masturbating in public, assaulting a 30-year-old woman and stealing her bag in broad daylight at Kheha BTS skytrain station on Tuesday.
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JAKARTA: Indonesian central bank governor Perry Warjiyo said on Wednesday more capital inflows had been seen since Bank Indonesia hiked interest rates last month in an effort to stabilise the rupiah, and he expected the trend would continue.
The country's biggest business lobby has urged the Bank of Thailand to cut interest rates and work with the government on ways to revive business and consumption activity, after slashing its own estimate for economic growth.
The pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca says it has initiated the worldwide withdrawal of its Covid-19 vaccine due to a “surplus of available updated vaccines” since the pandemic.
HONG KONG - A Hong Kong court has allowed the government to ban a popular protest song when used with “criminal intent”, dealing a setback to free speech in the city.
SINGAPORE - At Lakeside Primary School in Singapore, a trolley full of laptops is wheeled to the door of a fifth grade classroom where 30 or so students rush out to a hallway to retrieve them to learn mathematics using artificial intelligence.
A building crumbled and collapsed while workers were demolishing it alongside Charan Sanitwong Road in Bangkok on Wednesday morning.
A married couple have been arrested over the alleged theft of 396 million baht from a well-known fermented pork sausage company owned by the woman's aunt.
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden's bid to draw Vietnam closer as a strategic ally will clash head-on with his desire for union workers' votes on Wednesday as the Commerce Department hears testimony on whether to designate Vietnam as a "market economy".
Political activist Panupong Jadnok has been sentenced to three years in prison on charges of violating the lese majeste law and Computer Crimes Act, and a warrant issued for his arrest after he failed to appear in court for sentencing.
SINGAPORE - Global private equity investors and asset managers are readying for billions of dollars worth of mergers and aquisitions (M&A) and other investment linked to data centres in the Asia-Pacific region as the artificial intelligence (AI) boom fuels demand for digital infrastructure.
HONG KONG: The debt burden for construction of Hong Kong's airport expansion has soared to HK$123 billion (582 billion baht), with no end in sight to a levy on passengers who fly out from the city.
A new analysis of years of vocalisations by sperm whales in the eastern Caribbean has found that their system of communication is more sophisticated than previously known.
WASHINGTON - TikTok Inc and its Chinese owner ByteDance Ltd on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the United States federal government seeking to block a law that could lead to a nationwide ban on the popular short-form video-sharing platform.
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia's former Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Tuesday he had asked Myanmar's junta leader to allow him to speak via video call to detained Novel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, a request he said would be given consideration.
Police have arrested a 37-year-old American for extradition to the United States, where he faces trial on serious charges of violence and abduction.
More than nine in ten investors (94%) believe corporate reporting on sustainability performance contains unsupported claims, according to the PwC 2023 Global Investor Survey.