BANGKOK—A day after Thailand’s military imposed nationwide martial law , the country faced uncertainty over whether a coup d’état was imminent or if its civilian leaders could broker a deal to end months of bitter and often violent feuding. The military urged calm and insisted the declaration—made under a 100-year-old constitutional decree that gives…
BANGKOK – Fighting between Cambodian and Thai soldiers erupted Sunday evening for a third day along a disputed border near an 11th century temple, shattering a shaky cease-fire.The two sides exchanged mortar and artillery fire across the darkened mountainous border for over two hours. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage."Cambodian…
At least three people were killed in a firefight between Cambodian and Thai troops Friday in the latest of a recent series of clashes along the disputed Thai-Cambodian border. The skirmish comes days before the two sides were set to discuss the issue at a regional summit.Agence France-Presse reports that two Cambodian soldiers and one Thai soldier died d…
IT IS the shoes of the murdered bus passengers that everyone remembers. Nine corpses, nine sets of footwear — a girl’s plastic sandals, a boy’s trainers and clean white socks, a woman’s sensible casuals — all lined up by the jungle roadside.The scene marked another grim milestone in an insurgency that has torn apart Thailand’s three majority Muslim provin…
BANGKOK, Thailand – In the dead of night and without firing a shot, Thailand’s military overthrew popularly elected Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on Tuesday amid mounting criticism that he had undermined democracy.The sudden, well-orchestrated coup — the first in 15 years and a throwback to an unsettled era in Thailand — was likely to spark both enthu…
NARATHIWAT, Thailand – Thai authorities prepared Monday to impose a state of emergency for insurgency-hit areas of the country’s Muslim south, as violence continued unabated with two slayings and a bombing that wounded seven security personnel.A raid on the southern city of Yala by militants last week that left two policemen dead and 22 people injured pro…
A powerful roadside bomb exploded in Thailand’s restive Muslim south on Friday, likely killing two soldiers and seriously wounding eight, police said.The bomb, hidden next to a highway in the southern province of Narathiwat, went off as a truck loaded with 10 soldiers drove by on an evening patrol, police said.”Eight of them were critically injured. We be…
Thailand has entered a security state of red alert, said the country’s security authorities, following recent chronic bomb attacks targeting civilian facilities in the insurgent south.Under the highest level of security alert, all security agencies involving with army, airforce, navy and police have been mobilized to keep close watch on major infrastructu…
JAKARTA, Indonesia – The world’s most powerful earthquake in 40 years triggered massive tidal waves that slammed into villages and seaside resorts across southern and southeast Asia on Sunday, killing more than 7,000 people in six countries. Tourists, fishermen, homes and cars were swept away by walls of water up to 20 feet high that swept across the Bay…
BANGKOK, Thailand — Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has vowed to root out “a ring of troublemakers” who launched a series of attacks on security outposts in the nation’s south that left over 100 people dead.Gangs of machete-wielding youths, clad in black and wearing headbands stormed 15 police and security bases or checkpoints at dawn in three sou…