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Thai security forces should immediately stop forcing Karen refugees and asylum seekers to return to Burma from refugee camps in Thailand, Human Rights Watch said today.

By Darren Schuettler

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand feared a spike in violence in its Muslim deep south on Friday after an unknown rebel group announced a "ceasefire" dismissed by some analysts as a hoax that might enrage real fighters on the ground.

The surprise announcement by the so-called Thailand United Southern Underground on Thursday was rubbished by security experts and ex-army commanders who said its leaders had no influence in the region, where more than 3,000 people have been killed since 2004.

BAAN TOOM, Thailand - While movie fans the world over rave about the new Batman film, the only stir bats are causing in this poor farming village is in a cooking pot.

A few months ago I went to a rally in support of harm reduction services outside a UNAIDS meeting in Chiang Mai.

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Caleb W. Fields, son of Charles M. Fields, of Chillicothe, and his fellow shipmates aboard USS Dubuquerecently participated in a community relations project in Phuket, Thailand, ...

Despite Chetta's claims, the idea of an unconditional armistice in the South belongs in the realm of fantasy It was somewhere between a cheap political ploy aimed at putting pressure on the Malay Muslim ...

Thai army on Thursday pushed back 58 Karens, mostly women and children, displaced by fighting between Burmese government troops and rebel soldiers from Karen National Union, according to a border sources.

A self-proclaim spokesman of eleven "underground" separatist groups announced a ceasefire in the three southernmost provinces, ending secessionist movement in the Malay-speaking region.

Cambodian soldiers walk in the foggy morning as they patrol around Preah Vihear temple, Preah Vihear province, Cambodia, Thursday, July 17, 2008.

Two men claiming to head a group responsible for the southern insurgency said on national TV on Thursday they had agreed to an immediate halt in attacks.

Two bombs were triggered on Wednesday in Thailand's southernmost province of Yala, but caused no casualties, police said.

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Tun Abdul Razak with Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej at the 48th Malaysia-Thailand General Border Committee meeting in Bangkok yesterday.

The family of a Calgary man killed after he was shot from point-blank in northern Thailand is urging the Canadian government to step up pressure on the Thai government to close the case.

The Thai government will today unveil an economic-stimulus package worth 30 billion baht to 40 billion baht and plans to inject more money into the economy to help those hardest hit by rising energy costs, ...

Property Perfect Plc , one of Bangkok's leading Property Developers, has urged the government to subsidise solar cell materials for energy-saving homes.

Mid priced houses have received more interest from more property developers as its demand grows and the rate of unsuccessful mortgage request is low.

The government is renewing its attempt to amend the charter prior to dissolving the House and calling a new election, the Democrat party said yesterday.

Yongyuth guilty verdict could see it dissolved PRADIT RUANGDIT & NAREERAT WIRIYAPONG The People Power party is preparing to set up a new political entity if ex-deputy leader Yongyuth Tiyapairat is disqualified ...

Nearly one-third of the Myanmar nationals who during the first six months of 2008 crossed to Thailand over the Friendship Bridge in Mae Sot border town failed to return home, media reports said Monday.

PRETTY IN PINK: SEA Property leads the fleet downwind in the first race of the inaugural Multihull Championship regatta on Saturday morning.