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Commerce Minister Jurin Laksanawisit announced on Thursday that his ministry was launching a set of proactive measures to better manage fruit supplies next year.

Phuket’s popular vegetarian festival is being held under strict safety measures from Wednesday until October 14 to curb Covid-19 from spreading further.

WASHINGTON - The Senate voted Saturday to extend transportation funding programs for a month, a step that grants a reprieve to 3,700 Department of Transportation employees who were furloughed when the money expired on Thursday. The House approved the measure late Friday.

The Lao government has extended Covid-19 prevention and control measures until September 30, expanding a night-time travel ban to provinces hit by a community outbreak.

More than 60,000 factories are hit by a spike in costs due to the government’s Covid-19 prevention measures that have been enforced in provinces with a high infection rate, Wisit Limleucha, vice president of the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI), said on Wednesday.

Ranong has imposed night-time curfew across the province and strict measures on the fish and marine-life trade in a bid to curb Covid-19 from spreading further after Myanmar reopened its bay.

For the seventh day, hundreds of firefighters along with residents, volunteers, and international aid crews were trying to contain the biggest blaze that is still raging in the northern part of Greeces Evia island.

The Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA), chaired by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, on Sunday extended lockdown measures for another 14 days in a bid to tackle the fast-spreading Delta variant.

World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has given his backing to the pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics, which begin on Friday despite a global surge of Covid-19 Delta cases and continuing opposition to the Games.

LONDON - At the stroke of midnight on Monday, for the first time in 17 months, the staff of the Piano Works nightclub pushed back the tables, cranked up the volume and threw open the dance floor to mark "Freedom Day," a go-for-it gambit by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to end almost all legal requirements to maintain coronavirus social distancing measures in England.

The Royal Gazette announced on Sunday tightening of Covid-19 measures from Tuesday.

The Government Financial Institutions Association (GFA) on Thursday launched new measures to help people who are burdened with debt and whose earnings have been affected by the lockdown.