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Iran on Monday named Mojtaba Khamenei to succeed his father Ali Khamenei as supreme leader, signaling that hardliners remain firmly in charge, as the week-old U.S.-Israeli war with Iran pushed oil above $US 100 a barrel.
Scores of random items, ranging from pencil cases to banknotes, were left on the floor this morning after 13,895 students were not allowed to take them into the entrance examination hall. Images showing piles of students’ belongings quickly circulated online, prompting widespread reactions from Thai netizens and pushing the issue into trending topics on social media.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has set up a Middle East War Situation Administration Centre to deal with fallouts from the war in the Middle East which impact Thailand.
sraeli warplanes pounded Beirut and Tehran on Friday as Iran launched another wave of retaliatory strikes against Israel and Gulf countries that host U.S. forces.
Indonesia will restrict access to social media platforms for children under 16, its communications and digital ministry said on Friday, making it the latest country to install online guardrails to reduce the risks of addiction and cyberbullying.
Fifteen Chinese-run companies and their ten Thai nominees are under investigation by Thai authorities for alleged collusion and other unfair trade practices, including suppressing the prices of coconuts purchased from growers and attempting to monopolise the coconut trade.
The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has issued a summons for Kla Tham Party MP for Songkhla province, Chonnapat Naksua, to report to the DSI next Wednesday to acknowledge charges in connection with an online gambling platform.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul issued an executive order today suspending the export of finished petroleum products — specifically benzine, gasohol, high-speed diesel, jet fuel and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) — with immediate effect, to address uncertainties engendered by the war in the Middle East.
The Thai Foreign Ministry has set up an operation centre in the city of Van in Turkey, to help facilitate evacuations of Thais from Iran who are being impacted by the Middle East war.
The chief economist of a leading Thai economic research centre has warned that Thailand faces growing risks to its energy security and economic growth if the conflict in the Middle East continues and the Strait of Hormuz remains closed.
Thammasat University’s Faculty of Political Science has extended online classes until March 23 after the number of chickenpox infections among its students and visiting school students rose to 26.
Only highly competent and well-recognised individuals should be appointed to head key ministries to strengthen the government’s credibility and stability, two leading economists said on Reporters' Day.
The world before the US and Israel wiped out the Iranian leadership was very different from the world after the smoke cleared and supreme deaths were announced, and the world today will be nowhere near the world in which the last bomb has been dropped and last missile launched.
Israel pounded Lebanon early Thursday and said it intercepted missiles from Iran as a widening war launched by the United States and Israel also brought fresh turmoil to Iraq.
Here are the latest main events related to the war in the Middle East:
Cybercrime officers and telecom regulators have shut down a company near the Myanmar border in Mae Sot district of Thailand’s Tak province after it was found to have illegally supplied internet signals across the border to support call centre scam operations targeting people in Thailand.
