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Phuket is Thailand's major tourist attraction with surrounding water containing a varied marine life and the island itself is blessed with beautiful seashores and forested hillsides.

Bangkok - Floods and mudslides in southern Thailand have killed 18 people and affected more than 300 000 over the past five days, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.

Floods caused by heavy rains have claimed 15 lives in southern Thailand, officials said Monday.

One thing many expats do when they first move to Bangkok, Thailand is think about buying a motorbike or a car.

THE head of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations urged Thailand and Cambodia on Saturday to show 'maximum restraint' amid tensions over Phnom Penh's job offer to a fugitive former Thai premier.

For many people, moving to Bangkok, Thailand requires throwing a few things in a suitcase and getting on a plane.

Despite a flat property market in Phuket the largely domestic driven Bangkok real estate sector is seeing significant gains in Q3 which signals an upturn for the industry.

Pouth Nin, from Oddar Meancheya s Trapaing Prasat district, sustained one gunshot wound to his right leg and is recovering in a Sisaket hospital, said Touch Ra, deputy chief of the Thailand-Cambodia Relations Office at the Chom border gate.

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has told parliament that the government disagreed with the idea of establishing autonomous areas in lower South, as it was not a solution to the problem.

At least 2,000 red-shirts led by Kwanchai Praiphana rallied at Udon Thani city hall on Friday and handed the governor a letter calling for justice for former provincial police chief Pol Maj-Gen Permsak Paradornsak, who has been dismissed from the service.

Belinda Jackson discovers the best hang-outs for party people who like to mix attitude with altitude.

Most people in Thailand buy fake or bootleg DVDs and not the real thing. Authentic DVDs are expensive, especially compared to average Thai salaries, so there are less stores that sell them.

An American chain, Au Bon Pain now has branches all over Bangkok. Serving awesome sandwiches, soup in bread bowls, bagels, salads, wraps and, of course, tons of pastries, cookies and cheesecakes, Au Bon Pain is an amazing place for a quick breakfast or a delicious lunch or dinner.

Suspected Islamist insurgents shot dead five Muslims, mostly civilians, in a new spate of attacks across the troubled south of Thailand, police said Tuesday.

Puea Thai Party chairman and former prime minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh on Tuesday travelled to the deep South, saying he would attempt to restore peace in the violence-plagued region.

Thailand is a single state and cannot be divided, so it was not possible to allow the three southernmost provinces to become autonomous areas, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said on Tuesday.

Many Seniors Travel to Bangkok Every Year and Some Even Retire Here, but What is There to Do? As the cost of living gets more expensive in the west, more and more seniors are coming to Bangkok, Thailand, either for extended holidays or to retire here.

New thinking and renewed resolve could yet chart progress in the enduring troubles Thailand is facing in its restive southern provinces, writes KAMRUL IDRIS A BREAKTHROUGH could be taking shape in southern Thailand's deadly insurgency.

" Two drug smugglers were shot dead by Thai security forces in gun battles in Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai province, north of Thailand even as the Thai government expressed worry that more drugs would be smuggled into the country given the fighting between the Burmese Army and ethnic armed groups.

Many parallels can be drawn between the enormous city specific properties of two of Asia's departed international airports with Hong Kong's Kai Tak and Bangkok's own Don Muang.