BANGKOK, Aug 23 — Thai authorities ramped up security in the capital on Tuesday ahead of protests calling on the prime minister to resign, as a court considers whether to take up a petition to rule on when his constitutionally stipulated eight-year term is up.

SINGAPORE, Aug 23 — Singapore's key consumer price gauge in July rose again at its fastest pace in more than 13 years, official data showed on Tuesday, mounting pressure on the central bank to consider another policy tightening move later this year.

MOSCOW, Aug 23 — British Airways will cancel some 10,000 flights in the next six months due to Heathrow Airport's passenger cap, media reported on Monday.

MACABEBE, (PHILIPPINES), Aug 23 — Millions of Philippine students returned to classrooms for the first time in more than two years on Monday, after the country lifted most remaining Covid-19 curbs to try and reverse learning losses.

JAKARTA, Aug 23 — Indonesia is investigating alleged personal data breaches at state-owned telecoms firm PT Telkom Indonesia's internet service IndiHome and state utility PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN), its communications ministry said on Sunday.

BANGKOK, Aug 22 — Thailand’s Covid-19 task force will reassess the post-pandemic transition next month before deciding to lift the Emergency Decree.

SINGAPORE, Aug 22 — Singapore will decriminalise sex between men but has no plans to change the legal definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Sunday.

BANGKOK, Aug 21 — Thailand is to host “Apec Health Week” starting Monday, (Aug 22), a platform for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) economies to join forces in attaining public health and economic balances in a bid to move toward sustainable and inclusive economic recovery.

BANGKOK, Aug 21 — A commuter reaching the top of a crowded escalator at the Surasak Skytrain station in Bangkok's Bang Rak district is believed to have fallen backwards, prompting a domino effect that left 28 people with minor injuries.

JAKARTA, Aug 12 — Indonesia has confirmed its first monkeypox infection, detected in a person who had returned from an unidentified country with documented cases, a health ministry spokesman said on Saturday.

REUTERS, Aug 19 — Chinese and Russian leaders Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin will attend the G20 summit in Bali in November, Indonesian President Joko Widodo told Bloomberg News on Thursday.

REUTERS, Aug 19 — Military-ruled Myanmar plans to import Russian gasoline and fuel oil to ease supply concerns and rising prices, a junta spokesperson said, the latest developing country to do so amid a global energy crisis.

BANGKOK, Aug 18 — Thailand's health minister on Wednesday discouraged tourists from visiting the country only to smoke weed, just two months after new laws were passed that have largely decriminalised the drug.

Naypyidaw, Aug 18 — Myanmar's military leadership on Wednesday lashed out at the Asean grouping of Southeast Asian countries for excluding its generals from regional gatherings, accusing it of caving to "external pressure".

TOKYO, Aug 17 — The former head of the Tokyo Olympic and the Paralympic Games' organising committee Haruyuki Takahashi has been arrested on the suspicion of receiving a bribe, reported Sputnik.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 17 — Big data can support over US$100 billion (RM446 billion) worth of opportunities in Southeast Asia, particularly across the five focus countries, namely Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand, according to the Asian Development Bank (ADB).

BANGKOK, Aug 17 — Explosions and fires ripped through at least 17 locations in southern Thailand on Wednesday, authorities said, in what appeared to be multiple coordinated attacks that injured seven people.

PUTRAJAYA, Aug 17 — Malaysia has conveyed its heartfelt condolences and profound sympathies to the government and people of Egypt, in particular to the bereaved families of the victims of the Abou Seifain Church fire incident in Giza on August 14.

SINGAPORE, Aug 16 — Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said that the actual timing of him succeeding Lee Hsien Loong as the prime minister has not been decided yet.

BANGKOK, Aug 15 — The death toll from a pub fire in Thailand has risen to 19 — after a 23-year-old woman died today as a result of severe burns.