Thailand
Suu Kyi to make first trip out of Myanmar in 24 years: party
YANGON - Nobel laureate and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will travel outside Myanmar for the first time in 24 years next week to deliver a speech at an international forum in Thailand, her party said on Thursday.
Battle for Cove Energy heats up as PTT trumps Shell
LONDON - The takeover battle for Cove Energy looks set to run after Thailand's PTT Exploration and Production trumped Royal Dutch Shell with a $1.9 billion offer, underscoring interest in new east African gas finds.
Impatient Thai red shirts want justice from PM Yingluck
BANGKOK - Thailand's "red shirts" took to the street this weekend to mark the anniversary of the army's bloody repression of their mass rally in Bangkok in 2010 amid growing signs of a rift with the government they helped elect last July.
Thai police arrest man with babies' bodies for black magic
BANGKOK - Thai police arrested a British citizen on Friday after the bodies of six babies thought to have been used in a black magic ritual were found stuffed into travel bags in a Bangkok hotel room.
Myanmar mega-project may be on a road to nowhere
DAWEI, Myanmar - A simple, red sign on a white beach marks the start of a billion-dollar highway that will, one day, lead to a vast industrial project to be built close to impoverished Myanmar's border with Thailand.
Laos extradites suspect to China in Mekong massacre case
BEIJING - Laos on Thursday handed over the suspected leader of a drug gang accused of killing 13 members of Chinese boat crews on a lawless stretch of the Mekong River, an incident that caused Beijing to send gunboat patrols to the region downstream from its borders.
Thai election unlikely to end power battle
Former PM Thaksin Shinawatra has been dealt a favorable hand with the Puea Thai Party's landslide win, but analysts say the rivalry between him and conservatives is so deep that future confrontation seems inevitable. Full Article


