Police have arrested a 44-year-old woman in Sing Buri 14 years after gang members used a forged credit card in the name of the New Zealand ambassador to buy and sell fuel worth about 10 million baht.Continue Reading
Some roles, particularly in Thailand’s recovering tourism and service sectors, are now mostly being filled by migrant workers due to a chronic manpower shortage, a top official from the Employers’ Confederation of Thailand (ECOT) has said.Continue Reading
The number of daily Covid-19 cases is likely to reach 5,000-10,000 during a new wave but numbers probably will drop quite quickly after that, says Dr Nitipatana Chierakul, head of the Respiratory Disease and Tuberculosis Division at the Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital.Continue Reading
The Royal Thai Police (RTP) is calling for an upgrade of the Immigration Bureau’s biometric identification system through artificial intelligence (AI) technology to help improve the monitoring of international criminals.Continue Reading
SINGAPORE: Allegations circulating on WhatsApp that the Omicron XBB subvariant of COVID-19 is “five times more toxic”, more deadly and harder to detect than the Delta variant are untrue, the Ministry of Health (MOH) said on Wednesday (April 19). In a Facebook post, MOH said that both international and localContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: A man has been arrested for allegedly receiving marine gas oil (MGO) stolen from Shell Eastern Petroleum’s Pulau Bukom facility, the Singapore Police Force (SPF) said on Wednesday (Apr 19). The 48-year-old, who was not in Singapore during the investigation into his alleged offences, was arrested when he enteredContinue Reading
Jiang Mengjie wins praise for taking action against blackmailers after upskirting images of her were filmed.Continue Reading
BANGKOK: Sweltering under a blistering sun, people across South and Southeast Asia have been taking cover beneath any shelter they can find as they pray for cooling rains with record temperatures hitting the region. Bangladesh saw its highest temperature for almost 60 years in the past week, while in IndiaContinue Reading
MOSCOW: Russia on Wednesday (Apr 19) warned South Korea against sending weapons to Ukraine after Seoul opened the door to possible military aid to Kyiv in the event of a large-scale civilian attack. An ally of Washington, Seoul has provided non-lethal and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, but has so far ruledContinue Reading
SINGAPORE: A 13-year-old boy who was last seen on Apr 12 has been found, the Singapore Police Force said in an update on Wednesday (Apr 19). The police issued an appeal for information on Tuesday about the whereabouts of Pritesh Ram Sivan Kumaran, who was last seen at Block 146 Serangoon NorthContinue Reading