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Thai authorities said they have seized 50 million methamphetamine tablets near the country's border with Myanmar a record haul of meth pills for Thailand and the secondlargest

When Thai farm labourer Anucha Angkaew scrambled out of the bunker where he had been sheltering from rockets on Israel's border with the Gaza Strip around 7.30 am on Oct. 7, he expected to see Israeli soldiers.

Six Thai hostages kidnapped and held for weeks in the Gaza Strip by Hamas will arrive back in the kingdom on Monday, officials said.

Myanmar army fighter jets launched air strikes on Saturday on a village near the Thai border in territory controlled by an armed ethnic group, the group said, as fears grow of civil war following last month's military coup.

The Thai army said on Wednesday it had no knowledge of two exiled critics of the military and royal family whose bodies police say were found "stuffed with concrete" along the Mekong River border with Laos.

Thai wildlife officers have arrested a Malaysian man attempting to smuggle two baby orangutans, 51 tortoises and six raccoons into the kingdom across its southern border, officials said Thursday.

Mosha the elephant, who stepped on a landmine along the Thai-Myanmar border 10 years ago, received her ninth prosthetic leg on Wednesday.

A Thai court's examination of 500 witnesses in a case against 88 suspected human traffickers will take as long as two years, a court official said today, meaning verdicts in a case that sparked an international outcry are even further away.

Dozens of people arrested in Thailand's human trafficking crackdown, including a senior general, appeared in court today, days after the police officer in charge of the investigation tendered his resignation saying he feared for his life.

Thai police today announced DNA tests revealed a foreign man arrested near the Cambodia border is not the yellow-shirted Erawan shrine bomber, but was "definitely involved in the bombing".

Malaysian police said on Sunday they had found 24 human skeletons - all believed to be victims of trafficking - in newly discovered graves along the Thai border in the northern Malaysian state of Perlis.

Malaysian police today removed the remains of nine people from jungle camps near the Thai border where an estimated 139 bodies are believed to have been buried in a still unfolding people-smuggling crisis in Southeast Asia.

Malaysia's government has expressed shock at finding human-trafficking camps and graves near the Thai border, but for local villagers like Sani Hashim the human clues were right there in plain sight.

Myanmar's drug squad has seized more than 140 kilograms of heroin at a town near the Thai border in the country's largest bust this year.

Cambodia's king on Tuesday pardoned a prominent Thai nationalist activist jailed for spying in a disputed border area, a government official said, in a case that fuelled bilateral tensions.

Thai authorities said they have seized 50 million methamphetamine tablets near the country's border with Myanmar a record haul of meth pills for Thailand and the secondlargest

When Thai farm labourer Anucha Angkaew scrambled out of the bunker where he had been sheltering from rockets on Israel's border with the Gaza Strip around 7.30 am on Oct. 7, he expected to see Israeli soldiers.

Six Thai hostages kidnapped and held for weeks in the Gaza Strip by Hamas will arrive back in the kingdom on Monday, officials said.

Myanmar army fighter jets launched air strikes on Saturday on a village near the Thai border in territory controlled by an armed ethnic group, the group said, as fears grow of civil war following last month's military coup.

The Thai army said on Wednesday it had no knowledge of two exiled critics of the military and royal family whose bodies police say were found "stuffed with concrete" along the Mekong River border with Laos.

Thai wildlife officers have arrested a Malaysian man attempting to smuggle two baby orangutans, 51 tortoises and six raccoons into the kingdom across its southern border, officials said Thursday.

Mosha the elephant, who stepped on a landmine along the Thai-Myanmar border 10 years ago, received her ninth prosthetic leg on Wednesday.

A Thai court's examination of 500 witnesses in a case against 88 suspected human traffickers will take as long as two years, a court official said today, meaning verdicts in a case that sparked an international outcry are even further away.

Dozens of people arrested in Thailand's human trafficking crackdown, including a senior general, appeared in court today, days after the police officer in charge of the investigation tendered his resignation saying he feared for his life.

Thai police today announced DNA tests revealed a foreign man arrested near the Cambodia border is not the yellow-shirted Erawan shrine bomber, but was "definitely involved in the bombing".

Malaysian police said on Sunday they had found 24 human skeletons - all believed to be victims of trafficking - in newly discovered graves along the Thai border in the northern Malaysian state of Perlis.

Malaysian police today removed the remains of nine people from jungle camps near the Thai border where an estimated 139 bodies are believed to have been buried in a still unfolding people-smuggling crisis in Southeast Asia.

Malaysia's government has expressed shock at finding human-trafficking camps and graves near the Thai border, but for local villagers like Sani Hashim the human clues were right there in plain sight.

Myanmar's drug squad has seized more than 140 kilograms of heroin at a town near the Thai border in the country's largest bust this year.

Cambodia's king on Tuesday pardoned a prominent Thai nationalist activist jailed for spying in a disputed border area, a government official said, in a case that fuelled bilateral tensions.