Bangkok on alert after Muslim separatist warning
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Police have beefed up security in Bangkok after an army intelligence report suggested separatists in the rebellious Muslim south might take their insurgency to the Thai capital, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
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PUTRAJAYA: Thai police are looking at the possibility that those involved in the Sungai Golok bar bombing may have fled to Malaysia as authorities on both sides of the border stepped up security checks.
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Some 15,000 Thai troops were on alert Tuesday across the country as security fears rise ahead of a court decision whether to dissolve the kingdom&#39;s two largest political parties.
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At least 78 Muslim detainees suffocated or were crushed to death after police rounded up 1,300 people and packed them into trucks following a riot in southern Thailand. Islamic leaders accused troops Tuesday of overreacting and warned the deaths could worsen sectarian violence.
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PATTANI, Thailand  - Bomb blasts rocked southern  Thailand on Friday hours before Thai Prime Minister Thaksin  Shinawatra was to address the nation as he faces his worst  crisis following the deaths of 85 Muslim protesters. A second  bomb exploded at a busy food stall in Yala province on Friday,  wounding nine bomb squad members who had arrived to investigate  an earlier blast that wounded three people, including one  policeman, hospital officials said.
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Former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra will be arrested if he returns to the country, officials warn.
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Predominantly Buddhist Thailand, hit by three-year separatist insurgency in which more than 2,000 people have been killed, plans to hold talks with the Muslim rebels, Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont said on Friday. "It is not a negotiation, but more of a dialogue to build understanding with them, which Malaysia has supported as a good idea," Surayud told reporters when asked if Bangkok would formally ask Kuala Lumpur to be a mediator. But Surayud, who agreed with Malaysian counterpart Abdullah Ahamd Badawi this week to speed up attempts to develop their common border area to help end the violence, declined to say where or when the talks would be held or who would be involved.
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Muslim separatists are warning of a violent backlash against the brutal quelling of a riot that left 85 protesters dead in the south, as the Thai premier faced mounting questions over the handling of the incident.
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BANGKOK will &quot;burn&quot; as revenge for the death by suffocation of 78 Muslim men as they were being transported in Thai Army trucks this week, a group of Muslim militants threatened yesterday.
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A bomb has exploded in southern Thailand, killing one person and injuring about 20, in what could be the first reaction to the deaths of 85 Muslim protesters earlier this week.
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BANGKOK : At least seven people have been killed in separate attacks in Thailand&#39;s restive south in the last 24 hours, police said amid a spate of violence following the deaths of 87 Muslims last week.
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BANGKOK In a killing that threatens to stoke the violent unrest in southern Thailand, assailants beheaded a Buddhist village leader to avenge 84 Muslims who died in a crackdown by the Thai military last week.
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Thailand's prime minister says he will not be forced to talk to suspected Muslim separatist in the south.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra  ordered security forces on Monday to become more pro-active in  their efforts to restore peace in the largely Muslim south,  where more than 500 people were killed last year.
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Thailand's revered King Bhumibol Adulyadej has warned that the kingdom's stability depends on peace in the restive Muslim south as police reported two more killings in the region.
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NARATHIWAT, Thailand  -- Colonel Sumet Matreeprasaru stands before a wall-sized map where red squares mark recent attacks in Thailand&#39;s Muslim-majority south, and shrugs his shoulders.
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Thailand's new government will consider granting some degree of self-rule to Muslim-majority provinces hit by bloody separatist unrest, Interior Minister Chalerm Yubamrung said Tuesday.