Bangkok - Thai police said Sunday they were investigating a "passport ring" as details emerged of bookings made in Thailand with stolen European passports for the vanished Malaysia Airlines flight.Two European names -- Christian Kozel, an Austrian, and Luigi Mar...

Bangkok - Six suspected drug dealers were shot dead during a firefight with Thai security forces who seized illegal amphetamines at the scene, police said Saturday.

London - We live in a time when protests take place in Ukraine, Venezuela, Thailand, Brazil and many other countries in the world because of dictatorship, corruption, rogue politicians and presidents.

- Polls opened peacefully in five Thai provinces on Sunday for re-runs of a widely disrupted general election, authorities said, in the first move to complete a troubled vote that could provide a mandate for a new government.A February 2 election failed ...

Bangkok - Tensions eased in Thailand's strife-hit capital on Saturday after protesters abandoned their attempted "shutdown" of Bangkok, but the move was seen as only a temporary reprieve for the kingdom's embattled premier.The surprise retreat by the opposition ...

Bangkok - Thai opposition protesters seeking to force the prime minister from office said Friday they would abandon most of their rally sites in the capital, following a sharp drop in attendance.The demonstrators, who have occupied several key intersections in t...

Bangkok - At least 15 people, including 13 children, were killed when a bus carrying students on a trip to the seaside collided with a lorry in eastern Thailand Friday, police said.The smash is the latest in a series of deadly accidents involving buses in Thaila...

Bangkok - At least 15 people, including 13 children, were killed when a bus carrying students on a trip to the seaside collided with a lorry in eastern Thailand Friday, police said.More than 30 others were injured in the pre-dawn accident in Prachinburi involvin...

Bangkok - Thailand's premier is set to skip an anti-corruption panel hearing Thursday into negligence charges that could lead to her removal from office, as she grapples with a four-month deadly political crisis.Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is fighting for...

Bangkok - Gunmen opened fire near several opposition protest sites in Bangkok Wednesday, stoking tensions in the capital as Thailand's embattled prime minister flew to her political stronghold in the north.Street violence, often targeting protesters, has become ...

Bangkok - Thailand risks sliding into civil war after a wave of political violence that has claimed 21 lives including several children, top security and army officials warned Tuesday.Near-daily gun and grenade attacks in protest-hit Bangkok have raised concerns...

Bangkok - A six-year-old girl died early Monday from wounds sustained during a grenade attack on a busy Bangkok shopping area, hospital officials said, taking the number of children killed in Thai political violence over the weekend to three.The attacks, which a...

Bangkok - At least 16 people were injured in a blast Sunday in a central Bangkok shopping district where anti-government protesters were holding a rally, the Erawan emergency centre said on its website."Sixteen people have been reported injured," the centre said...

Bangkok - A five-year-old girl was killed and 30 other people were wounded after gunmen sprayed bullets on an anti-government rally in eastern Thailand, police said Sunday.The attack marks the latest flaring of political violence in the deeply polarised kingdom,...

Thousands of Thailand's anti-government protesters stormed the temporary office of the prime minister in a continuing campaign to oust Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra following a day of violent confrontation Tuesday that left at least five people dead.

Bangkok - Defiant Thai opposition protesters threatened to storm Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's crisis headquarters Wednesday, stepping up their campaign a day after dramatic street clashes left five dead and dozens wounded.The spike in violence has punctu...

Bangkok - Thailand's embattled premier will be charged with neglect of duty, anti-graft officials said Tuesday, as clashes between police and opposition protesters left three dead and dozens wounded in central Bangkok.The National Anti-Corruption Commission said...

Bangkok - Thai police arrested dozens of opposition protesters during an operation Tuesday to seize back besieged government buildings in the capital Bangkok, a senior official said.About 100 demonstrators were detained at an energy ministry complex on charges o...

Bangkok - Thailand's economy grew 0.6 percent in the final three months of 2013 compared with the same quarter a year earlier, data showed on Monday, as political turmoil hit consumer confidence and tourism.With no end in sight to more than three months of anti-...

Bangkok - Thai opposition demonstrators besieged the seat of government Monday in defiance of authorities who have vowed to reclaim the zone this week so Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra can return to work at her headquarters.The government is attempting to se...