Bangkok

A rocket-propelled grenade strikes from out of nowhere, incinerating an American Humvee military transport on a highway near Baghdad. One US soldier killed, three wounded.

The military government of Myanmar (Burma) stepped up its campaign against democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Friday, accusing her and her political party of trying to bring down the government in a ”show of force”.

Two Thai men have been cleared of allegations they kidnapped 34 members of the Padaung ethnic group in Thailand’s north to display them in a ”human zoo”, officials said on Thursday.

Revelations that Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is being held at Yangon’s notorious Insein jail without even a change of clothes since she was detained three weeks ago sparked outrage on Friday among diplomats and activists.

The government of Laos lashed out at the international news media Wednesday over coverage of the arrest and detention of two European journalists and an American pastor.

A virulent opponent to Thailand’s brutal anti-drugs crackdown which has left nearly 1 500 dead, Porntip Rojanasunan is waging a battle against the police force, seeking to snare any of those responsible for extra-judicial killings.

Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on Thursday his government would review its controversial drugs blitz, which has led to the killings of around 1 000 people across the country.

Patients seeking Botox injections to reduce wrinkles should beware of unscrupulous practitioners who use silicone instead of Botox, leaving patients with a ”witch’s chin”, a Thai dermatologist was quoted as saying on Monday.

An assistant undertaker assigned to prepare for funeral rites the body of a woman he had been courting admitted having sex with the corpse and is being sought by police.

The family of a Thai woman who committed suicide by jumping into a pool of hundreds of crocodiles believe she planned her grisly death, a report said on Tuesday.

Thailand, which recently began producing a low-cost, single-pill, anti-HIV ”drug cocktail” has offered to transfer its Aids-fighting drug technology to poor developing nations, including South Africa.

The multi-billion dollar trafficking of human beings has surged in recent years and is now favoured over drugs by smugglers, the world’s largest regional security group OSCE said on Thursday.

A Thai Senate committee will hold a hearing next week on whether a Bangkok high school should be allowed to continue using hard-core sex videos in sex education classes.

It is mid-morning in the Land of Smiles, and Mildee Sornbunthong has already married off a pair of her clients.

An 8-year-old boy who became a media sensation in Thailand after cycling some 100 kilometres in search of his mother has been reunited with her.

Following a crackdown on Madagascar giant hissing cockroaches at Bangkok’s famed exotic pet market, buyers are now squirming to get their hands on the newest rage: the deadly blue ring octopus.

Thai officials have vowed to crack down on sellers and importers of giant African cockroaches, saying the exotic insects currently in vogue as pets could pose a health hazard.

Thai public prosecutors have filed a civil suit against Finnish cellphone company Nokia, seeking compensation for a phone that allegedly exploded, crippling its user, media reports said on Monday. The suit was filed against Nokia (Thailand) on Friday on the recommendation of the Consumer Protection Board, the Office of the Attorney General confirmed.

To discourage growing homosexuality in prisons, the Thai Corrections Department will allow male and female inmates to mix with each other, officials said Friday.