A former Thai army chief who led the 2006 coup that toppled ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra was named leader of a new party on Wednesday, adding a new dimension to the country's fractious political system.
 

Thai police said Tuesday they have arrested a Thai couple in Bangkok on charges of illegally trading African ivory after a tip-off by U.S. authorities.
Thais arrested for ivory smuggling

 

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter helped the housing charity that he champions, Habitat for Humanity, launch a campaign Monday to build homes for 50,000 families in the Mekong River region over the next five years.
 

Thousands of members of Thailand's “Yellow Shirt” protest group were set to rally in Bangkok Sunday against a visit to Cambodia by their arch-foe, fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
 

Taiwan's government-operated International Cooperation and Development Fund (ICDF) will dispatch a mobile medical team to Chiang Rai, the northernmost province of Thailand, on Monday to provide local people with medical services and humanitarian care.
 

Fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra left Cambodia on Saturday, ending a contentious four-day visit that deepened a diplomatic crisis between the neighbours.
 

Cambodian police said Friday they had charged a Thai man with spying on fugitive ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra, further inflaming a diplomatic crisis between the neighboring countries.
 

Thai authorities have charged two people with spreading false information about the health of the country's revered king, after rumors last month sent the stock market plunging, police said Monday.
 

Suspected Muslim insurgents killed a Buddhist woman and seriously wounded her husband in a dawn ambush at their home in Thailand's southernmost province on Saturday, police said.
 

Thai authorities are to charge four people with spreading rumors about the health of the country's king which sent stock markets plunging earlier this month, the prime minister said Thursday.
 
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