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If you’ve been using the Nutrition Flag as a guide for creating healthy, balanced meals, you may need to adjust your regime.

ASEAN stakeholders are calling for a stronger focus on people-centered growth as the region looks toward the ASEAN Community Vision 2045, according to a report released recently by the ASEAN Secretariat.

Wildlife officials have successfully captured a tiger that had strayed from its habitat in Khao Wong National Park in Kamphaeng Phet province.

As the stock market resumed trading this morning after a one-day break yesterday, the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) circuit breaker was triggered at 12.18pm, suspending trading after the SET index plummeted by 117.52 points to 1,348.99.

There is no reason to panic about buying fuel due to the ongoing Middle East crisis, as the government has already frozen the price of diesel for at least 15 days and has contingency plans in place, Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said today.

Motorists across Thailand, including in Bangkok, have been panic-buying petrol and diesel over fears that oil prices will rise and shortages may occur as a result of the ongoing crisis in the Middle East.

Dozens of Thai oil trucks have been queuing up at the Chong Mek border crossing into Laos since Monday, after being stopped by border officials following a report that the Energy Ministry may ban the export of crude oil and finished petroleum products to Thailand’s neighbour and other Asian countries due to the war in the Middle East.

Energy Minister Atthapol Rerkpiboon says that diesel pump prices will not increase for the next 7-10 days, but prices of other oil products may rise slightly.

About 300 Thais living in Iran will be the first of about 100,000 in the Middle East to be evacuated, Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul announced today.

Thailand’s Crime Suppression Division police have asked Interpol to issue a Red Notice, which is a request to law enforcement worldwide to locate and provisionally arrest a person pending extradition, surrender, or similar legal action, for businessman Benjamin Mauerberger, also known as ‘Ben Smith’, who is wanted in Thailand on fraud and money laundering charges.

Sourdough, bread made from nothing more than three ingredients – flour, water and salt – has taken Thailand by storm. Once a rare find, served only at artisan bakeries in the city, this tangy, air-bubble filled bread is now ubiquitous.

Thai security agencies have stepped up security measures and are monitoring certain foreign embassies and key locations amid rising tensions between the United States, Israel and Iran, Thailand’s National Security Council chief Chatchai Bangchuad said yesterday.

Thailand may seek additional oil supplies from Africa and the Americas and impose a temporary export ban if the conflict in the Middle East worsens, amid fears of disruption to global energy markets.

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The US and Israel pounded targets across Iran, bombing the country’s ballistic missile sites and wiping out warships as part of an intensifying military campaign following the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

President Donald Trump suggested Monday that the United States would retaliate "soon" after its embassy in the Saudi capital Riyadh was struck by two suspected Iranian drones.