The United States and Thailand pledged Thursday to renew their military alliance for a new security era, during a regional tour by Washington's defense chief designed to counter China's rise.

Thailand and South Korea agreed to more than double their annual trade to US$30 billion over the next five years, the kingdom's prime minister said Saturday.

An 11-year-old boy was among six people killed in a spate of shootings in Thailand's restive south, police said Thursday, as violence continues to roil the Muslim-majority area.

Thailand's Senate on Monday voted to deny a request by the police to question one of its members who shot his ex-wife at the dinner table with an Uzi 9mm pistol. He has said the gun went off while he was trying to remove a jammed bullet.

Thailand will employ a proactive strategy in tackling drugs, the secretary of the National Narcotic Prevention and Supression Commission, Pol General Pongsapat Pongcharoen, said.

Months after taking to the skies with Thailand's first transsexual air crew, fledgling carrier PC Air has suspended services over financial troubles that left passengers stranded in South Korea.

Thailand's Supreme Court on Thursday issued an arrest warrant for ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra, in the latest abuse of power charges brought against the controversial tycoon.

Two Thai “royal insult” suspects on Wednesday lost a landmark legal case against the kingdom's controversial lese majeste rules as a court ruled the law was in line with the constitution.

Suspected Muslim militants have shot dead 11 people including three paramilitary rangers in a single day of bloodshed in Thailand's insurgency-plagued deep south, police said Tuesday.

A Thai man wanted for a murder committed in Japan 19 years ago has been arrested in southern Thailand, police said Monday.