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Lisa's fever has triggered a surge of both local and foreign tourists visiting the red lotus field in Udon Thani province, benefiting local businesses, Phairasit Sukrom, chairman of the Red Lotus Sea Tourist Boat Community Enterprise, said today.
Body temperature screening of all arrivals from Kolkata, India, has been underway at Suvarnabhumi, Don Mueang, and Phuket international airports since midnight last night, as Thailand takes measures to prevent the Nipah virus from entering the country.
Monchai Jongkrairattnakul, a celebrity legal analyst affectionately known as “Lawyer Kaew” for his engaging TV persona, is now in the dock himself, hit by a sex scandal that threatens to end his career.
Former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton issued pointed calls Sunday for America to stand up and defend their values after the second killing of a citizen in Minneapolis by immigration agents that Donald Trump blamed on Democratic "chaos."
Yangon, Myanmar - Myanmar's dominant pro-military party has won junta-run elections, a party source told AFP on Monday, after a month-long vote that democracy watchdogs dismissed as a rebranding of army rule.
With just two weeks until Thailand’s general election, Pita Limjaroenrat has staged a comeback to help the People’s party’s revamped campaign, asking eligible voters to elect his party with a landslide and enable party leader Natthaphong Ruengpanyawut to become prime minister for two terms.
A 29-year-old homeowner resting inside his house narrowly escaped death when a crane unloading a prefabricated house at a nearby site lost balance, tilted and toppled onto his home in Khon Kaen’s Muang district on Saturday.
he Thai Consulate General in Kolkata, India, has issued a warning regarding an outbreak of the Nipah virus, advising Thai nationals in the area, especially Thai pilgrims planning to travel to Bodh Gaya and nearby areas in Bihar state, to exercise caution and closely monitor developments related to the outbreak.
Thirteen teenagers, aged 17 and 18, are being held in police custody for alleged involvement in the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old boy in Bangkok’s Bang Khen district yesterday. Police also seized five pistols and six motorcycles.
Thailand’s Commerce Ministry reports that foreign direct investment (FDI) in Thailand reached over 324 billion baht in 2025, a 42% year-on-year increase, with investors from Singapore topping the list in terms of the investment value.
The Department of Disease Control (DDC) has decided to take preventive measures, effective today, to deal with Nipah virus. It will subject all passengers arriving in Thailand from Kolkata in India to body temperature scanning.
The Pheu Thai party’s main prime ministerial candidate, Yodchanan Wongsawat, told the media today that he is confident that their controversial and populist policy of making nine Thai citizens into (Thai baht) millionaires every day can be legally implemented.
The Department of Disease Control has confirmed that no Nipah virus infections have been detected in humans in Thailand and the department has had a strict monitoring system in place for a long time, under the “One Health” concept.
Post-election developments in Myanmar are expected to top the agenda when ASEAN foreign ministers meet next week in Cebu, where they will also consider a possible framework for establishing a permanent ASEAN special envoy on Myanmar, according to informed sources.
Officials from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have completed their 4-day inspection tour, from Tuesday to Friday, of Sa Kaeo, Buri Ram and Si Sa Ket provinces, to observe the conditions of Thai people affected by the armed conflict between Thai and Cambodian forces last December.
Advance Info Service (AIS), a major mobile phone and internet service provider in Thailand, has denied that it had anything to do with one of its corporate customers allegedly and illegally transmitting internet signals from a base in Aranyaprathet district, Sa Kaeo province, to the Cambodian border town of Poipet.
