Bangkok - A bomb hurled Thursday morning at protestors at Klong Toey Market in Bangkok injured 13 people, two of whom were in critical condition, police said.

"Eyewitnesses said the bomb was thrown by a man on a motorcycle from the bridge that overlooks the market," said Police Colonel Suthip Palitkusontat, of the Klong Toey Port Police Station.

Vendors at the famed open air market - the largest in the capital - have been protesting efforts to evict them by a private company that won a new lease on the area on October 29.

Bangkok - Bangkok Governor Apirak Kasayodhin on Wednesday announced his resignation after being indicted by the National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC) of wrongdoing in the purchase of fire trucks and boats from Austria more than four years ago.

"I have decided to resign as Governor of Bangkok," Apirak told a press conference at the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority (BMA).

Jakarta  - A Thai woman was sentenced to 14 years in prison Wednesday for trying to smuggle 500 grams of cocaine into the country early this year, media reports said.

The West Java Banten's Tanggerang district court found Thitirat Charoensuk, 24, guilty for violating the country's tough anti-narcotic laws.

In addition to handing down a 14-year jail sentence, the court also ordered the defendant to pay a fine of 60 million rupiah (5,330 dollars), chief judge Haryono said in the court ruling, the state-run Antara news agency reported.

In previous court hearings, government prosecutors had sought the death penalty for Thitirat.

Bangkok  - Embattled Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat was scheduled to depart Bangkok for India Wednesday to attend a summit of the Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), foreign ministry sources confirmed.

Somchai was scheduled to leave Bangkok at 7:50 pm (1250 GMT) on a special Thai Airways International flight to the Indian capital New Delhi, where he will attend the second BIMSTEC summit Thursday and Friday.

Six months after Thailand was declared free of the deadly bird flu virus, Thailand's agriculture ministry has confirmed a fresh bird flu outbreak on a backyard farm in the north.

Two hundred and seventy birds were slaughtered in Sukhothai province after the H5N1 strain of avian influenza was found in a dead chicken, though there are not reports of any people sick from it. Investigations are underway to determine whether the outbreak was caused in Thailand or had its origin in a neighbouring country.

Bangkok - Thailand's National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC) on Tuesday ruled unanimously that Bangkok Governor Apirak Kosayodhin was guilty of wrongdoing in the purchase of fire trucks and boats from Austria more than four years ago.

The commission found Apirak, who was recently voted in as Bangkok Governor for a second term, guilty of involvement in "irregularities" in the 6.7-billion-baht (197 million dollar) purchase of fire trucks and fire boats from Austrian firm Steyr Daimler Puch Company, said the Bangkok Post online news service.

The dubious deal was rushed through by Apirak's predecessor Samak Sundaravej, who went on to become prime minister after the December 2007, general election.