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Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul says that Thailand can cope with any global crisis because the country has both food and energy security.

The Provincial Waterworks Authority (PWA) in Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai has restored the tap water supply to 80%, but the arsenic level in the Sai River, which is the source of raw water, was found to be 28 times the safety standard.

One villager was killed and eight others were injured, three of them seriously, by a lightning strike during heavy rain in the Mae Chaem district of Chiang Mai yesterday.

Mae Sai residents face tap water shortages after the Provincial Waterworks Authority reduced production.

An ASEAN special envoy will lead a humanitarian delegation to Myanmar on Wednesday to discuss efforts to expand humanitarian access across the conflict-hit country, according to diplomatic sources.

Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing has extended martial law in 55 townships across the country for another 90 days.

Thailand has welcomed as a positive sign Myanmar’s decision to allow Kim Aris, the son of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, to speak to his mother by telephone for the first time in more than five years, Foreign Minister Sihasak Phuangketke

The son of Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi told AFP she sounded "fairly healthy" after speaking to the detained ex-democratic leader on Thursday for the first time in more than five years.