| 04 Nov 08 |
|
62 wounded in bomb blasts in Thailand Two near-simultaneous explosions in insurgency-hit southern Thailand wounded 62 people Tuesday, police said. |
| 21 Oct 08 |
|
Thai verdict due in ex-PM Thaksin case Thailand's Supreme Court is expected to rule Tuesday on whether deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra abused his powers while in office. |
| 10 Oct 08 |
|
Thai opposition leaders surrender to police Leaders of an anti-government group that have orchestrated months of protests in Thailand have turned themselves into police Friday, authorities said. |
| 08 Oct 08 |
|
Calm returns to Bangkok after bloody rioting Read full story for latest details. |
| 07 Oct 08 |
|
Police fire tear gas at Bangkok protesters Read full story for latest details. |
| 04 Oct 08 |
|
Cambodia warns Thailand over 'hostilities' Read full story for latest details. |
| 17 Sep 08 |
|
Thai lawmakers elect Thaksin's in-law as PM Legislators in Thailand elected the brother-in-law of a fugitive former leader as the country's prime minister Wednesday. |
| 16 Sep 08 |
|
Warrant issued for former Thai PM Thaksin Thailand's Supreme Court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for deposed Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra who fled the country last month just as he was to appear in a corruption case. |
| 02 Sep 08 |
|
Thai crisis-hit PM defiant Thailand's election commission ruled Tuesday that Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej's party committed electoral fraud in the December elections and should be dissolved, state media reported. |
| 02 Sep 08 |
|
Thai PM calls state of emergency in Bangkok Hurricane Gustav didn't pack the wallop of Katrina three years earlier, U.S. officials have said, but they urged almost 2 million evacuees to stay away from the Gulf Coast for another day. |
| 22 Aug 08 |
|
Disgraced ex-rocker Glitter returns to UK The plane carrying British glam rocker Gary Glitter landed in London Friday morning after Thailand and Hong Kong refused entry to the convicted child molester, a Heathrow airport official confirmed. |
| 20 Aug 08 |
|
Thai authorities hold rocker Glitter Thai authorities detained British rock star Gary Glitter at an airport in Bangkok shortly after he was freed from a Vietnamese prison, having served nearly three years there for child molestation. |
| 16 Aug 08 |
|
Thailand, Cambodia ending temple stand-off A month-long stand-off between Thai and Cambodian troops around an ancient temple in a disputed border region eased a bit with an agreement to withdraw many of the soldiers, a Thai military official said Saturday. |
| 11 Aug 08 |
|
Report: Thailand's Thaksin flees for UK Deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife failed to appear in court Monday in connection with a corruption case, opting instead to leave for Britain, Thailand's national news agency said. |
| 07 Aug 08 |
|
Bush chides China over human rights U.S. President George W. Bush expressed "deep concerns" over religious freedom and human rights in China on the eve of the 2008 Beijing Olympics in a wide-ranging Asian policy speech delivered Thursday in Bangkok, Thailand. |
| 05 Aug 08 |
|
Thai-Cambodian tensions rise over 2nd temple Thailand and Cambodia have become ensnared in controversy over a second temple on disputed land along their border, the Thai news agency reported Monday. |
| 31 Jul 08 |
|
Deposed Thai PM's wife guilty of tax evasion The wife of deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was found guilty Thursday of evading millions of dollars in taxes and was sentenced to three years in prison, state media reported. |
| 24 Jul 08 |
|
Thai, Cambodian envoys set temple talks The foreign ministers of Thailand and Cambodia will meet Monday in an effort to resolve a weeklong military standoff over an ancient border temple that sits on disputed land, Thailand's prime minister said Thursday. |
| 20 Jul 08 |
|
Cambodia reports Thai incursions to U.N. Cambodia has sent a letter to the United Nations Security Council to call attention to its continuing standoff with Thailand over an ancient border temple on disputed land. |
| 17 Jul 08 |
|
Cambodia, Thailand border row escalates Thailand and Cambodia have called for dialogue as tensions continued to escalate over an ancient border temple on disputed land. |
| 03 Jun 08 |
|
Thai protesters win concessions Hundreds continued to protest on the streets of Thailand on Monday with some calling for the country's prime minister to resign, despite having won a string of government concessions. |
| 31 May 08 |
|
Thai PM threatens forces on protesters Thailand's prime minister has warned he may send in police and soldiers to disperse several hundred people who have been staging an around-the-clock protest in Bangkok for the past six days. |
| 30 Apr 08 |
|
Austrian incest dad holidayed in Thailand Josef Fritzl, the man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years and fathering seven of her children, twice holidayed in Thailand while she remained trapped in the cellar below his house, according to media reports. |
| 19 Apr 08 |
|
Bangkok prepares for torch relay Bangkok, Thailand, on Saturday prepared for the Olympic torch relay, with an alternate path mapped for the 80 torch-bearers, should they encounter demonstrators along a route that would take the flame by Chinatown and major landmarks. |
| 12 Apr 08 |
|
Myanmar migrant survivors fined and deported Thai police said they planned to hold some survivors of a human trafficking disaster for questioning after witnesses gave police valuable information about the human smuggling network that trafficked them into Thailand from Myanmar. |
| 16 Mar 08 |
|
Two die in separate blasts in Thailand Two people were killed Saturday in two explosions in Yala and Pattani provinces in Thailand, authorities said. |
| 12 Mar 08 |
|
Thaksin denies corruption charges Read full story for latest details. |
| 07 Mar 08 |
|
'Most-wanted' arms dealer arrested For years, Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout made millions of dollars delivering weapons and ammunition to warlords and militants, officials say. On Thursday, Bout and his associate, Andrew Smulian, were arrested in Thailand after a series of events that... |
| 28 Feb 08 |
|
Thaksin back home, faces charges Deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra appeared in the country's Supreme Court on Thursday where he was released on bail after returning to Bangkok following 17 months in exile. |
| 26 Feb 08 |
|
Web site: Thaksin to return, face charges Deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is expected to return to Thailand on Thursday after 17 months in exile, a pro-Thaksin Web site said. |
| 22 Jan 08 |
|
Democracy returns to Thailand Thailand's parliament reopened Monday, marking the end of 16 months of military rule and the return of democracy to the Southeast Asian country. |
| 20 Jan 08 |
|
Thaksin allies in coalition bid Read full story for latest details. |
| 14 Jan 08 |
|
Blast kills 8 soldiers in Thailand An explosion and ambush has killed eight soldiers in southern Thailand, an Army spokesman said. |
| 08 Jan 08 |
|
Thaksin's wife returns to Thailand The wife of ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrived in Thailand Tuesday morning to face corruption charges, promising to fight the accusations, her attorney said. |
| 02 Jan 08 |
|
Sister of Thailand's king dies Read full story for latest details. |
| 27 Dec 07 |
|
Official: Thaksin will face arrest Read full story for latest details. |
| 25 Dec 07 |
|
Thaksin vows to return from exile Thailand's former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Tuesday he would return from exile early next year and face corruption charges, but would not resume his career in politics. |
| 24 Dec 07 |
|
Pro-Thaksin party seeks coalition The Thai political party that backs the country's ousted prime minister won nearly half the seats in parliamentary elections Sunday with 96 percent of the vote counted -- allowing it to form a coalition government, a Thai election official told CNN on... |
| 23 Dec 07 |
|
Ousted PM's supporters to take control With exit polls suggesting the Peoples Power Party could win an outright majority in Thailand's lower house of parliament, PPP leader Samak Sundaravej was optimistic after voting ended Sunday in the first election since last year's military takeover. |
| 23 Dec 07 |
|
Thailand votes in first polls since coup Polls opened Sunday in Thailand's first national election after a military coup, with loyalists of deposed former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra expected to capture the most votes, The Associated Press reported |
| 01 Nov 07 |
|
Monk who helped protests escapes Exchanging his sacred Bhuddist robes for a crucifix and his black-colored hair for bleached-blonde, 24-year-old Ashin Kovida found freedom in neighboring Thailand and escaped authorities within Myanmar's oppressive military regime intent on hunting down... |
| 19 Oct 07 |
|
Thai police arrest pedophilia suspect A teacher from Canada suspected of sexually abusing young boys in photographs posted on the Internet has been arrested in Thailand, Thai police said. |
| 18 Oct 07 |
|
Thailand to issue arrest warrant Read full story for latest details. |
| 17 Oct 07 |
|
Canadian sought in pedophile case A teacher from Canada suspected of sexually abusing young boys in photographs posted on the Internet is now the subject of an intense manhunt in Thailand. |
| 18 Sep 07 |
|
Relatives to identify dead in Phuket Relatives of the 89 people killed in Sunday's plane crash in Phuket continued to arrive in the Thai resort town to try to identify their loved ones' remains. |
| 17 Sep 07 |
|
Survivors recount Thai jet crash Survivors of a crashed Thai airliner that killed 88 people at Phuket airport in Thailand tell of their harrowing ordeals. "My friend ... got out before me, and next thing it really caught fire then," recalls Irishman John Gerard O'Donnell. "I just got... |
| 16 Sep 07 |
|
'Deaths' in jet crash fireball A Thai airliner carrying 130 people crashed Sunday at the Phuket airport in southern Thailand shortly after landing, an airline spokesman and an eyewitness told CNN. Reports say at least 60 people are dead. |
| 17 Jul 07 |
|
Bombs kill 1, hurt 32 in Thai south At least one person was killed and 32 injured during a twin bombing in Thailand's southern Muslim-majority Yala province Tuesday morning, police said. |
| 12 Jun 07 |
|
Thailand: Thaksin exile over Read full story for latest details. |
| 28 May 07 |
|
Blast in southern Thailand kills 4  Read full story for latest details. |
blogs
china
thailand
japan
technology