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 - 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

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

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

Bangkok - The Thai stock market fell 2.35 per cent Thursday on uncertainties about the US economy, analysts said.