The European Championship, due to be played in June and July this year, has been postponed until 2021 because...

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Trump administration pressed on Tuesday for enactment of a $1 trillion stimulus package, possibly...

BEIJING (AFP) — China on Wednesday expelled American journalists at The New York Times, The Washington Post and The...

Public outcry about the government’s handling of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis has been growing louder, and the reason...

All entertainment places in and around Bangkok, including pubs, massage parlours, nightclubs and movie houses, will be closed for...

18 people were injured in two explosions, believed to be caused by devices detonated by southern insurgents, in front...

All entertainment places and sports venues in and around Bangkok, including pubs, massage parlours and nightclubs, will be closed...

At least five policemen were injured in two explosions, in front of the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre, in...

Thirty new COVID-19 cases were reported by the Thai Ministry of Public Health this morning, bringing the total number...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s prime minister said Monday he fears the new coronavirus will devastate the economies of developing...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia will shut its borders to travellers, restrict internal movement, close schools and universities and...

US President Donald Trump acknowledges pandemic may send US economy into recession and suggests nation may be dealing with...

European leaders are set to ban non-essential travel into the continent on Tuesday, the latest drastic attempt to curb...

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday shut down social life in Britain and ordered the most...

The Prayut government today announced a series of measures aimed at containing the spread of the deadly coronavirus that...

Kao Klai (Move Forward) party leader Pita Limjaroenrat, former Future Forward secretary-general Piyabutr Saengkanokkul and former spokeswoman Pannika Wanich...

Buri Ram has become the first province in Thailand to announce a partial lockdown to restrict the spread of...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis ventured into a deserted Rome on Sunday to pray at two shrines for...

Well known singer Lydia Sarunrat announced via Instagram today that she has contracted COVID-19 from her husband, TV celebrity...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first participant in a clinical trial for a vaccine to protect against the new coronavirus...

More people, who were at the Lumpini boxing stadium in Bangkok’s Ramintra area on March 6th, together with TV...

ROME (AFP) – Italy on Sunday reported a one-day record death toll and leaders warned of a bed and...

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan will make their last official appearance as senior royals on Monday, joining Queen...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Women filled the streets of the world’s largest cities Sunday to protest gender violence and...

The number of US coronavirus cases soared past 500 Sunday, including two further deaths, as California braced for the...

The annual Songkran water festival, in mid-April, has become the latest casualty of COVID-19, as organizers cancel several festive...

BEIJING (Reuters) – Wuhan, the epicenter of China’s coronavirus epidemic, will likely see new infections drop to zero by the...

Thailand has asked South Korea to keep Thai workers within the country for 14 days of health observation before...

Tech firms in Seattle, a new focal point for the coronavirus epidemic, were telling employees this week to take...

BANGKOK (AP) — The global march of the new virus triggered a vigorous appeal from the World Health Organization...

Thailand’s Disease Control Department (DCD) has issued a stern warning, to all Thais returning from high-risk areas, that failure...

Thailand’s government has launched a new program, called “Have Problems, Consult the PM”, to enable members of the public...

Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health reported four new COVID-19 cases today, two Thais, one Italian and a Chinese, bringing...

Thailand, like many places in the world, is facing a medical and economic crisis brought about by the fearsome...

Thailand is seeing a sudden rash of campus rallies at universities across the country. Are they really spontaneous or...

SEATTLE (AP) — Federal authorities announced an investigation of the Seattle-area nursing home at the center of an outbreak...

Shelves are being stripped bare of toilet rolls, hand sanitiser and surgical masks everywhere from Japan to France to...

Thailand’s Appeals Court has overturned the Criminal Court’s acquittal of former Department of Special Investigation (DSI) director-general Tharit Pengdit...

Europe’s coronavirus hotspot Italy shut all schools and universities on Wednesday in a bid to stop the deadly disease...

WASHINGTON/GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday warned of a global shortage and price gouging for...

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido reported three more cases of coronavirus infections on Wednesday, bringing the...

BEIJING (AP) — Less than 30 minutes into a lecture on bioinformatics, Chu Xinjian’s class was abruptly cut short....

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea reported 516 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday as thousands of sick people waited for...

Special transport has been arranged, by the state-run Transport Company, to take returning Thai workers from the airports their...

People outside Malaysia must have been caught by surprise by the recent political developments in Malaysia. One key question...

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s Mount Merapi volcano erupted on Tuesday morning, sending a 6-km (3.7 mile) column of ash...

Say no to a handshake, refuse every peck on the cheek and definitely avoid hugging. Instead, try a direct...

TEHRAN (AP) — An adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has died from the new coronavirus, becoming...

The National Health Security Committee (NHSC) is to seek cabinet approval tomorrow (Tuesday) for 3.5 billion baht from the...

Public health officials and police raided a junk shop in Wiharn Daeng district of Thailand’s central province of Saraburi...

MANILA – After hours of negotiation, a disgruntled former security guard has released his 30 hostages and walked out...

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Thailand has increased by one to 43, as another patient recovers and...

Former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia apologized to his allies on Sunday as his former ally Muhyiddin Yassin...

MANILA (Reuters) – A man was shot and about 30 people taken hostage on Monday by a gunman at...

China’s decision to first silence the doctor who warned of a coronavirus outbreak – and then cover up his...

The MotoGP World Championship, scheduled to be held in Thailand’s north-eastern province of Buri Ram from March 20th to...

SEATTLE (AP) — Health officials in Washington state said Sunday night that a second person had died from the...

A new virus first detected in China has infected nearly 89,000 people globally and caused more than 3,000 deaths....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s health ministry raised on Sunday the nationwide death toll from the new coronavirus to...

The Prayut government has passed its first test of confidence with an overwhelming number of votes, but the aftermath...

GENEVA (AFP) — The World Health Organization on Friday raised its global risk assessment of the new coronavirus to...

A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 82,000 people globally. The World Health Organisation has...

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has expressed concern over the proliferation of flash mobs at universities and high schools to...

BEIJING (AP) — As the worst-hit areas of Asia continued to struggle with a new virus, with hundreds more...

Defiant Seri Ruam Thai party leader, Pol Gen Seripisut Temiyavet, said today that he will livestream, via his Facebook...

Thailand’s famous “Look Krung” singer Suthep Wongkamhaeng died today, at the age of 86, at his residence in the...

Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha on Wednesday said he will order a probe into an allegation by an opposition...

At 4.30pm on February 24th, over a thousand Kasetsart University (KU) students, and other people interested in playing an...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has submitted a letter of resignation to Malaysia’s king, his office...

Thailand’s opposition parties have lined up 42 speakers for the censure debate this afternoon (Monday), with half of them...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea reported another large jump in new virus cases Monday a day after...

Thirty-six law professors, at the Faculty of Law of Thammasat University, have issued a statement voicing their disagreement with...

All educational personnel from the Education Ministry and students, who have visited six COVID-19 high risk countries, have been...

The Constitutional Court has ordered the Future Forward Party dissolved after finding it guilty of breaking the law by...

Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has asked members of the public to stay calm over the ministry’s proposal to...

The search and rescue operation for a reported helicopter crash on a mountain in Muang district of Thailand’s eastern...

BEIJING (Reuters) – China reported an uptick in new cases of coronavirus on Friday although the rise in infections...

BEIJING (AP) — China reported a further fall in new virus cases to 889 on Friday as health officials...

The Constitutional Court is set to rule this afternoon whether Future Forward Party has broken the law by obtaining...

German investigators said Thursday they suspected a “xenophobic motive” behind shootings at a shisha bar and a cafe that...

Thailand’s Committee for Emerging Infectious Diseases has been instructed, by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, to develop precautionary measures to...

TOKYO (REUTERS) – Two passengers from a coronavirus-hit cruise ship moored near Tokyo have died, public broadcaster NHK said...

In a bid to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in Thailand, Chulalongkorn University has imposed a ban on visiting...

At least eight people were killed in two shootings at shisha bars in Germany, with an unknown number of...

Two former passengers of the coronavirus-wracked Diamond Princess have died, local media reported Thursday, as fears mount about those...