Yingluck Shinawatra became politically turbulent Thailand's first female prime minister on Friday after parliament endorsed her crushing election victory.

Political novice Yingluck, the sister of ous

Bangkok: Thailand's deputy prime minister for security affairs Suthep Thuagsuban reiterated on Thursday that Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva had sent a clear signal that parliament should be dissolve

Indian police on Wednesday said they were investigating the death in Thailand of a senior gangland figure wanted over the murder of a lawyer who represented a Mumbai attacks suspect.

United Nations: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked Cambodia and Thailand to make 'an effective arrangement' to end hostilities and 'exercise maximum restraint'.

"The secretary-general is deep

The bodies of more than 100 human foetuses, apparently from an illegal abortion clinic, were discovered inside a Buddhist temple in central Bangkok, the Thai police said on Monday.

Thai authorities have arrested 61 Tamil migrants from Sri Lanka, the police said on Saturday, in the second such crackdown in recent weeks.

The Thai government said on Tuesday it was extending a state of emergency in Bangkok and three surrounding provinces for three more months, in the wake of deadly street protests in April and May.

Thailand on Friday revoked a state of emergency in three northeastern provinces but not in Bangkok, where there have been a series of minor blasts in recent weeks, a government spokesman said.

Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has said that early elections could take place early in 2011 if the Opposition Red Shirts prove they can remain peaceful.

Several hundred Red Shirt protesters defied a state of emergency in the Thai capital to stage a symbolic protest, with hundreds of people sprawling on the ground and chanting, “People died here!”