Bangkok  - Susanne Neumayer-Haindinger, the daughter of famed Austrian singer Peter Alexander, died in an automobile accident over the weekend on Thailand's resort island of Samui, police confirmed Monday.

Neumayer-Haindinger, 51, died about 3 am Saturday (2000 GMT Friday), probably of a head injury sustained after her husband failed to navigate a curve, overturning their car into a ditch, Police Lieutenant Colonel Thanongsak Aksonsom said.

"We think she died of an injury sustained when her head hit the windshield," Thanongsak said in a telephone interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. "She wasn't wearing her seat belt."

Neumayer-Haindinger's husband, who was wearing his seat belt, wasn't injured in the accident.

Bangkok  - Thai police on Monday arrested a 64-year-old German man on charges of setting fire to 11 public phone booths after allegedly losing all his money to Thai bar girls.

Heinz-Dieter Beckers, 64, confessed to the charges of setting fire to the phone booths and at least three billboards at public bus stops, Police Lieutenant Colonel Noppasin Poonsawat said.

Beckers, a frequent visitor to Thailand who had overstayed his tourist visa, told police that bar girls at Pattaya beach resort had taken all his money and he had recently lost his ATM card when a cash machine failed to eject it, leaving him penniless.

Bangkok  - The Thai military blocked food supplies over the weekend to a Hmong refugee camp in an apparent effort to force the 5,400 "illegal immigrants" to return to Laos, media reports and aid agencies said Monday.

On Friday the military prevented Medicins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) from delivering food supplies to Ban Huay Nam Khao camp in Phetchabun province, 250 kilometres north-east of Bangkok.

Bangkok- A six-wheel modified truck packed with passengers heading for a wedding party plunged into a construction hole early Sunday, killing at least ten people and injuring 25 others.

The truck, transporting friends and relatives of the bridegroom from Yasothon province to his wedding in Chaiyaphum province, drove into a construction hole on the Kalasin-Roit highway at 2:30 am, The Nation online news service reported

Bangkok  - Faced with falling exports, rising unemployment and negative growth, Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Sunday named 2009 the "Year of Investment."

Addressing the nation on his weekly television show Sunday morning, Abhisit vowed to facilitate corporate investments in Thailand this year, the Thai News Agency reported.

Abhisit, 44, vowed to set up a "one-start, one-stop" centre, gathering with personnel from all government agencies under the prime minister's office, to speed up investments.

Hong Kong  - Hong Kong is close to agreeing on an extradition treaty with Thailand that could be used to send ousted prime minster Thaksin Shinawatra back home, a news report said Sunday.

Talks are at an advanced stage over the wide-ranging treaty which could affect regular visitor Thaksin, facing a two-year jail sentence for corruption in Thailand, according to the Sunday Morning Post.