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Thailand and Laos have stepped up bilateral cooperation on practical response to any possible outbreak of the new deadly A strain of avian influenza along their common border, Thai News Agency reported.

Suspected militant Sakariya Totayong has confessed to being involved in both old and more recent violent crimes in the far South, according to Col Komkrit Rattanachaya, commander of the 41st Ranger Regiment.

A military helicopter made an emergency landing in Nakhon Nayok yesterday morning due to a broken sling in its rudder.

YALA : A Muslim police officer was shot dead by a suspected militant while praying inside a mosque in Raman district on Monday evening.

Thailand's national Buddhism body said Monday it is monitoring monks nationwide for any inappropriate behavior following complaints ignited by a video showing Buddhist monks flying on a private jet.

The Democrat Party's failed candidate in the Aug 26, 2012 by-election in Lamphun's Constituency 2 has been found guilty of electoral fraud and banned from elections for five years and is also liable to legal action under the Criminal Code, Election Commission secretary-general Puchong Nutrawong said on Monday.

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The baht was around 30.68 per dollar on Monday. It hit a 16-year high of 28.55 in April, when it had been emerging Asia's strongest currency - PHOTO: BLOOMBERG [BANGKOK] Thailand's central bank chief said on Monday he could not rule out another cut in interest rates, due to global uncertainty, and he was not concerned about capital outflows as the ... (more)

PATHUM THANI : Loan sharks raided a makeshift restaurant in Pathum Thani's Thanyaburi district, smashing items because the owner's son owed the gangsters money, police say.

Members of the anti-government white-mask movement, or "V for Thailand group" Sunday rallied in several major provinces of all regions across the country.

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Phuket's International Convention and Exhibition Center project was cancelled shortly before one sprouted up in Chiang Mai.

A marine was killed in a walk-up shooting in Pattani's Mai Kaen district late Sunday afternoon, reports said.

Angkarn Yasanop, 29, graduated from the Sampran Royal Police Cadet Academy in Nakhon Pathom in 2007.

Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is not taking sides with pro-government red shirts, Pheu Thai Party spokesman Prompong Nopparit said on Sunday.

PHUKET: A CHIANG MAI man was arrested by police after a video surfaced on YouTube of him driving around the northern city on a 1.2-million-baht superbike.

Steel girders jut from the low skyline of the Thai city of Udon Thani near the Laos border as workers lay cement for a new shopping mall, one of many illustrating a boom in the Thai economy beyond the bright lights of Bangkok.

Saving a cow's life while tucking into a beef dish may seem morally dubious, but there is no rule book when it comes to merit-making and, hey, a good deed is just that It was a fortuitous time for cows in Songkhla last Saturday when 10,000 of them were released from the steely jaws of a local slaughterhouse.

Elephants in the district of Omkoi in Thailand's northern province of Chiang Mai have different roles than pachyderms elsewhere.

The Public Health Ministry of Thailand has announced it will push for the establishment of a dengue fever "war room" in all provinces.