"clampdown"

China has penalized 10 of the country's most popular livestreaming apps, suspending some of their operations in a renewed crackdown on fast-growing services backed by Tencent Holdings and ByteDance.

THE MEDICAL Council has warned that brawlers who invade hospitals after midnight will face a jail term of up to five years, adding that drunks should also be banned from hospitals unless they are injured.

Bangladesh security forces have shot dead a Rohingya woman in a border town known as a gateway for smuggling meth pills from neighbouring Myanmar, officials said Sunday.

Authorities rounded up 503 foreigners for overstaying their visas, illegally entering Thailand and other crimes during simultaneous searches at 217 locations around the country early Friday. 

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has set up 115 checkpoints where “Thesakit” law-enforcement officials are stationed to stop and immediately fine people riding or parking vehicles on footpaths during rush hour.

In picturesque Windsor, in the shadow of the castle where Queen Elizabeth II spends her weekends, a dozen homeless people shelter from the cold in a jumble of blankets and cardboard boxes.

The number of people cited for violating traffic laws spiked over this year’s holiday season, but the arrest if the law-breakers made the roads safer, said the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) on Thursday.

Hopes that the upcoming referendum offers a return to stability and prosperity for the country are based on an illusion. The fact is, it would be no bed of roses if Thailand got its 20th constitution.

Because of the atmosphere in which the referendum is being held, it’s result will be unreliable

Determined to keep its investigation of alleged corruption in-house, the military is badly overreacting to public involvement