Hundreds of people have demonstrated outside the Stock Exchange of Thailand to protest plans by the country’s largest beer maker to list its shares on the market. They say the move would encourage drinking.

THAILAND’S ousted and exiled prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was ordered yesterday to appear before police in Bangkok next week to face corruption charges.

Thailand’s military council, which seized power last week, is setting up a special panel to probe corruption in the former government, it announced today.