HANOI - Developers of a new US-backed undersea ‌data cable linking Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Singapore are preparing to select either NEC of Japan or Alcatel Submarine Networks of France as the supplier, according to a project executive.

After months of fires in Indonesia that have caused thick regional haze, attention is turning to whether companies can be held accountable for the blazes and resulting air pollution.

SEOUL - South Korea’s military said on Thursday it had seen no signs of newly deployed North Korean weapons on their shared border, hours after Pyongyang said new “counter means” would be put on alert along its length.

Police have arrested a 19-year-old man and seized 125 cylinders of nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas, and related items in a raid on a condominium in Lat Phrao district of Bangkok.

The Ministry of Finance is preparing to reform the civil service medical benefits scheme by introducing a system in which health insurance is purchased from insurance firms.