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Thai bourse slips 2.7 per cent on petrol price intervention threat

Bangkok  - The Thai stock market lost 2.7 per cent in value Wednesday on investor concerns over a government proposal to lower petrol prices by forcing refineries to take smaller profit margins.

Fire at Myanmar embassy in Bangkok closes visa section

Fire at Myanmar embassy in Bangkok closes visa sectionFire at Myanmar embassy in Bangkok closes visa section

Myanmar's frustrated aid drive puts faith in ASEAN

Bangkok  - Frustrated by the Myanmar junta's constraints on a relief drive for 2.5 million people affected by Cyclone Nargis, the international aid community is counting on the Association of South

Myanmar junta OKs UN helicopters for relief deliveries

Bangkok  - Myanmar's junta has allowed the World Food Programme (WFP) to bring 10 helicopters into the country to deliver emergency supplies to ten of thousands of victims of Cyclone Nargis, 19 day

New "human zoo" opens on Thailand's eastern seaboard

Bangkok  - Thai provincial officials have allowed a new "human zoo" featuring "long-necked" or "giraffe" women to open in Sattahip near Bangkok despite mounting international criticism of the explo

Bombs kill policeman, wound 13 civilians in southern Thailand

Bombs kill policeman, wound 13 civilians in southern Thailand

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