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Nepal's disaster management authority confirmed 675 deaths from recent mudslides, with 2,498 people still missing. Among those unaccounted for are 753 tourists, including 589 foreign nationals.
Thailand's Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has apologised to Russian visitors and ordered intensified security patrols after five people—two Russian tourists and a Thai family—were killed in Chonburi province, vowing to restore public confidence in the nation's tourism sector.
Thai police rescued three Indian tourists from a Pattaya townhouse on Monday after they were abducted and held for ransom by a transnational gang allegedly comprising Pakistani and Indian nationals.
Bali police have arrested a 26-year-old Singaporean man following the death of his Indonesian girlfriend at a boarding house in Denpasar. The suspect allegedly strangled the woman and concealed her body before she was discovered by her brother.