Bangkok - The New York-based Human Rights Watch on Saturday blasted Thailand for forcing 52 Karen refugees to return to a conflict-zone in Myanmar on Asarnha Buccha Day, the beginning of Buddhist l

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Pattani, Thailand - Claims that Thailand's decades-old southern separatist struggle - which has claimed about 2,700 lives over the past four years - was over were dismissed Friday as a hoax or a f

Bangkok - Thailand's long-simmering southern separatist movement that has claimed more than 2,700 lives in the past four years is over, a self-proclaimed spokesman for the movement announced Thursd

Bangkok - Thailand and Cambodia will hold an urgent meeting next week to defuse a row over joint claims on an ancient Hindu temple compound that has drawn hundreds of troops to both sides of the bo

Bangkok  - Thailand's central bank on Wednesday raised its benchmark interest rate for the first time in two years, hiking it 0.25 per cent to 3.5 per cent in an effort to curb inflation.

Duangmanee Vongpradhip, assistant governor of the Bank of Thailand's monetary policy division, said the hike to the bank's one-day bond repurchase rate was deemed necessary to keep inflation from getting out of control.