Thailand

Thailand is trying to limit the number of monkeys that roam freely in the town of Lopburi after residents complained the primate tourist attractions are becoming more annoying, and aggressive.

A rampaging elephant stomped three rubber tappers to death in southern Thailand on Wednesday after it was left to wander freely by its handler, police said.

Thailand on Monday reported 51 more A/H1N1 virus cases, bringing the country's total number to 201, according to the Thai Public Health Ministry.

A mob of hundreds of Pakistani villagers seeking revenge for a deadly mosque bombing have killed 14 suspected Taliban as vigilante violence entered a third day Monday, the army said.

More than 3,000 ethnic Karen villagers have fled into Thailand as Myanmar troops shelled near a camp where they were sheltering, one of the largest movements of refugees across the border in a decade, aid groups said Sunday.

Thirty transsexual Thai competitors joined in the "Miss Tiffany's Universe 2009" final contest at the Tiffany Show Theater in the east coastal city Pattaya of Thailand.

BANGKOK (AP) — Police issued arrest warrants Tuesday for 14 leaders of an anti-government movement, including ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, as protesters abruptly ended violent demonstrations in Thailand's capital.

A well-known Thai fortune-teller has predicted that embattled Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva will have to step down by April 20 as tension rises with escalating violence in the capital.

BANGKOK - Alarmed by polls showing one in four Thai teens will celebrate St. Valentine's Day by having sex, police plan to swoop on motels, malls and parks to ensure youths behave themselves on the "Day of Love."

BANGKOK — Thailand will not override a patent on leukaemia drug Glivec after its maker, Swiss giant Novartis, agreed to give the medicine to most patients for free, an official said Friday. The move was a last-minute victory for the outgoing milit...