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Singapore recorded its highest suicide tally since 2000, indicating a rise in mental distress from factors including social pressures and economic uncertainty, a report by non-profit Samaritans of Singapore Ltd said.

The Move Forward Party (MFP) and the Pheu Thai Party, the two main coalition allies, were unable to agree on the House speaker position in their meeting with the other six parties on Sunday but said they hope to resolve the issue on Monday.

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has urged agencies concerned to streamline procedures so the country can achieve the target of receiving 25 million tourists this year, deputy government spokesperson Traisuree Taisaranakul said on Sunday.

Health authorities say the number of monkeypox cases in Thailand soared last month and warn men who have sex with men to take precautions as new cases have been spreading among them.

An airline passenger had part of her leg amputated this past week after an accident on a moving airport walkway in Bangkok, authorities said.

The Metropolitan Police Bureau has warned the public to be on high alert for a man with a 15-year criminal record of using a dating application to meet women and then rape and rob them.

At least six people were killed in a nightclub fire in Cambodia's capital on Saturday, police said.