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
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
Bangkok - Laos, a land-locked nation with no known petroleum resources, faces a serious threat from rising oil prices this year, the country's president warned Monday.
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
Bangkok - A judicial inquiry into the slaying and alleged torture by authorities of a Muslim religious leader in southern Thailand is being blocked by army stonewalling, said the New York-based Human Rights Watch on Friday.
Although the Thai army chief, General Anupong Paochinda, has pledged a full investigation, local officers have effectively refused to cooperate with a court inquest, said Brad Adams, Asia director of Human Rights Watch. "No soldier has ever been prosecuted for abducting, torturing, or extrajudicially killing Muslims in the south. Because the evidence is so strong, this should be an easy case for the army to show it's serious about addressing impunity," said Adams in a statement. Yapa Koseng, a
