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Sydney was set to reopen after months in lockdown, officials said on Sunday, with businesses readying themselves to welcome fully vaccinated residents from Monday.

PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN: Famous Chatchai market in the resort town of Hua Hin will be closed for three days from Monday after a new Covid-19 cluster emerged there.

KANCHANABURI: A combined military and police unit arrested eight Myanmar nationals for illegal entry and a Thai man for providing assistance to illegal border crossers in the small hours on Sunday, police said.

CHIANG MAI: A military patrol seized 90,000 methamphetamine pills believed to have been abandoned by a drug courier who sped through a checkpoint in Wiang Haeng district on a motorcycle late on Saturday night, Pha Muang Force commander Maj Gen Narit Thawornwong revealed on Sunday.

People living along the Chao Phraya River and canals in Greater Bangkok brace for floods after more water is discharged from dams upstream and storms. | Jetjaras Na Ranong

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia on Sunday lifted interstate and international travel restrictions for residents fully vaccinated against Covid-19, as the country achieved its target of inoculating 90% of its adult population.

Philippines "First Daughter" Sara Duterte has been in lockstep with her father, following him into law and succeeding him as a city mayor. Now, she's leading the race to replace Rodrigo Duterte as president.

PATTANI: A villager was seriously injured in a gun attack in Nong Chik district late on Saturday night, police said.

CHAIYAPHUM: Police on Sunday arrested a 19-year-old woman and charged her with killing her newborn baby.

NAKHON PHANOM: The water level in the Mekong river between Thailand and Laos in this northeastern province is still low and the river can still absorb much higher inflows, the provincial disaster prevention and mitigation office announced on Sunday.

Forty percent of people polled by the National Institute of Development Administration say Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha should declare he will quit as prime minister by August next year, while a slightly smaller number say he should seek a Constitutional Court ruling on the controversy over when his tenure as premier should end.

Thailand logged 84 new Covid-19 fatalities and 10,817 new cases during the previous 24 hours, the Public Health Ministry announced on Sunday morning.

All eyes are on the ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP) which is expected to nominate two more prime ministerial candidates as a back-up in the next election just in case Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, the top candidate, has a political accident costing his premiership.

WASHINGTON: The IMF executive board will meet Sunday to hear from a law firm whose investigators concluded that managing director Kristalina Georgieva manipulated data in favor of China while she held a senior role at the World Bank, a source close to the case said Saturday.

The government is set to reopen five more provinces to foreign tourists next month after the Phuket sandbox pulled in more than 2 billion baht during the past three months.

Lao 'grandad' betrays trust

Something you get accustomed to in Bangkok at this time of the year is the distant sound of thunder, Mother Nature's way of reminding us of her power and also not to forget the umbrella if we are going out. I emphasise "distant" because the "flash, bang wallop!" thunderclaps directly overhead can be extremely scary and dangerous. But observing thunder and sheet lightning from a comfortable...

Early last week, news surfaced that the Centre for Economic Situation Administration rubber-stamped a proposal brought by the National Tourism Policy Committee to collect a "small tax" from tourists entering the country, starting in 2022.