A disease control official directs returnees at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport. The government has suspended the arrivals of privileged foreign visitors following the discovery of Covid-19 infection in the Sudanese attache’s family after they arrived from Khartoum. (Photo: Arnun Chonmahatrakool) The government has temporarily banned the […]
Queen Elizabeth II’s representative in Australia fired a prime minister without informing the palace in advance, according to letters kept secret for decades, but her office did assure the then-governor-general, John Kerr, that he had the power to bring down the Australian government before he […]
Ivory Coast has created a special military zone in the north of the country, the government said, less than a month after a deadly attack on a frontier post. The pre-dawn killing of 14 army personnel on June 11 at Kafolo, along the country’s border with […]
Floods across large swaths of central and eastern China have left more than 140 people dead, affecting 38 million others and destroying 28,000 homes, according to government tallies. It is the worst floods in China in more than 30 years, as regions across the country […]
The latest round of negotiations between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over the latter’s contentious dam on the Blue Nile has ended with no agreement, according to Egyptian and Sudanese officials. “All of the efforts exerted to reach a solution didn’t come to any kind of […]
Bejon Misra responded quickly to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal in March for donations to a new fund to strengthen the country’s fight against the coronavirus. The next day, the 69-year-old retired management professor made a donation. “It was a generous contribution because Modi […]
Hong Kong is set to impose its toughest curbs yet to control the coronavirus, after authorities warned the risk of a large-scale outbreak was extremely high. The WHO has warned the pandemic could get far worse if countries around the world do not follow basic […]
Dr Taweesilp Visanuyothin, spokesman of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, speaks to reporters at Government House in Bangkok. (CCSA photo) The government said on Tuesday the Egyptian embassy dodged quarantine for its 31-strong military party visiting Rayong province, and 1,889 local people who went […]
Dr Taweesilp Visanuyothin, spokesman of the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration, speaks to reporters at Government House in Bangkok. (CCSA photo) The government said on Tuesday the Egyptian embassy dodged quarantine for its 31-strong military party visiting Rayong province, and 1,889 local people who went […]
US President Donald Trump’s executive clemency to his longtime friend and adviser Roger Stone not only commuted the veteran Republican operative’s prison term but it also spared him a hefty fine and two years of supervised release. The details of the clemency arrangement were made […]
