Thailand expects to delay plans for so-called travel bubbles given a resurgence in coronavirus infections in countries that had managed to contain the initial outbreak, a senior official told Reuters ... ( read original story ...)
Thailand expects to delay plans for ‘travel bubble’ on worries of Covid-19 resurgence
BANGKOK (Reuters): Thailand expects to delay plans for so-called travel bubbles, given a resurgence in coronavirus infections in countries that had managed to contain the initial outbreak, a senior ... ( read original story ...)
Thailand needs to do more to support older people from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
About 12 million people in Thailand, almost 1 in 5, are aged 60 or over, more than half of them are women. And according to the 2017 Survey of Older Persons, 32% of those in their 80s indicated ... ( read original story ...)
Thailand denies monkeys abused to harvest coconut products
BANGKOK (AP) - Thailand's coconut-picking monkeys, long a popular tourist attraction, have become a sensitive trade issue as British activists claim the animals are abused and push for a boycott of ... ( read original story ...)
Russia working on immediate Libya ceasefire with Turkey – Interfax
Russia and Turkey are working on an immediate ceasefire agreement for the conflict in Libya, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying on Wednesday by the Interfax news agency. ( read original story ...)
Philippines negotiating more foreign loans for COVID-19 response, says Dominguez
The Duterte administration is far from done with securing loans from foreign sources for its COVID-19 response, the Department of Finance said. In a virtual press conference Wednesday, Finance ... ( read original story ...)
Indonesia’s Telkom Group unblocks Netflix as it amps digital push
Indonesia's state owned telecoms firm PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia said on Tuesday it has unblocked streaming giant Netflix, after four years of negotiations. ( read original story ...)
Woman killed as India, Pakistan trade gunfire in Kashmir
Indian and Pakistani soldiers barraged each other with mortar shells and gunfire along the highly militarized frontier in Kashmir on Wednesday, killing a woman and ... ( read original story ...)
‘More than one million’ died of snake bites in India
An estimated 1.2 million people have died from snake bites in India in the past 20 years, a new study has found. Nearly half of the victims were between 30 and 69 years old, and a quarter of them were ... ( read original story ...)
India’s fiscal deficit touches 58.6% of annual target in two months
India's federal fiscal deficit in the first two months through May stood at 4.66 trillion rupees ($61.67 billion), or 58.6% of the budgeted target for the current fiscal year, government data showed ... ( read original story ...)