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PETALING JAYA: E-hailing giant Grab will be making it mandatory for passengers to submit a selfie to use its services by July 12, in an effort to make its platform safer for both drivers and riders.

Parents urged to insist on helmets or have kids take safe school buses

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has announced it found no bacteria contamination during checks on the city’s coin-operated drinking water dispensing machines.

A 14-year-old Myanmar girl whose migrant-worker father had on Sunday reported her missing and feared she might have been lured away by an individual with ill intent, – was found safe and sound yesterday at her friend’s house in Kanchanaburi’s Sangkhla Buri district.

Officers spent more than four hours looking for two Russian tourists who had gone missing in Phang Nga’s Sa Nang Manora Forest Park on Tuesday night and eventually found them safe.

AT LEAST 6,000 elderly people die from falling every year, and most of these deaths occur at home.

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) estimates 71 foreign tourists have been affected by the earthquake and tsunami that struck Central Sulawesi on Friday.

Thais have no reason to worry about health risks from the black plastic food trays commonly used here, the government’s Department of Medical Sciences says.

Bali and the southern parts of neighboring Lombok, which were struck by a deadly earthquake on Sunday evening, are safe to visit, says Lilik Kurniawan, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency's (BNPB) community empowerment director.

All 77 reservoirs in the lower Northeast are stable and able to accommodate much more water, an Irrigation Department official has said, dispelling fears of dams collapsing.

Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton and a number of delegates who were on Lombok Island at the time of Sunday evening’s 7-magnitude earthquake have safely arrived in neighboring Bali. 

The directors of two major dams in the western province of Kanchanaburi insisted on Saturday that the dams remained safe and could take a lot more water, even though water levels had reached over 80 per cent of dam capacities.