Thailand

Corruption trial of former Thai prime minister begins

Bangkok  - Thailand's Supreme Court on Tuesday started hearings against ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife Potjaman in the first corruption case to be successfully lodged against the contro

Couple shot and burned in Thailand's deep South

Pattani, Thailand - Suspected Islamic separatists on Tuesday shot dead a couple and burned their bodies on the roadside in the latest atrocity to hit Thailand's troubled, majority-Muslim deep Sout

Thai transvestite elected village head "man"

Bangkok - A Thai transvestite with an excellent record for community service has been appointed district chief of a village in Samut Prakan province despite his cross-dressing tendancies, news repo

Burmese flock to Thailand looking for work

Bangkok - Nearly one-third of the Myanmar nationals who during the first six months of 2008 crossed to Thailand over the Friendship Bridge in Mae Sot border town failed to return home, media repor

Drive-by shooting kills three in Thailand's troubled south

Pattani, Thailand - Three people were killed and five wounded Saturday when insurgents in a pick-up truck fired into a tea shop in Yala, the centre of the Islamic insurgency in Thailand's deep sout

Thailand bullish on rice exports as prices soften

Bangkok - Thai rice exports should hit ten million tonnes this year, because prices are falling away following record highs two months ago, said the Thai Rice Exporters Association in reports Satur

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