Malaysia has found 139 graves, and signs of torture, in more than two dozen squalid human trafficking camps suspected to have been used by gangs smuggling migrants across the border with Thailand, the country’s police chief said.

Thai police have downplayed a probe into more than 50 officers transferred over suspected links to human trafficking networks, saying the transfers were “standard operating procedure” and that most of the officers were suspected only of negligence.

With the bodies of almost 400 victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami still unidentified a decade later, Thai police were holding out little hope of gleaning any new information from opening a cargo container packed with unclaimed personal items.

A former railway worker in Thailand was sentenced to death for raping a 13-year-old girl on an overnight train, then killing her and throwing her body out the window, an attack that sparked outrage in the Southeast Asian nation and prompted calls for the execution of rapists.

Police on the resort island of Koh Tao in southern Thailand stepped up their hunt for the killer of two British tourists whose bodies were found on a beach.

Two British tourists have been found dead on a beach in southern Thailand following a “gruesome” attack.

Nine people have died and at least 70 have been injured in a series of bomb blasts in southern Thailand.

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Muslim insurgents disguised as paramilitary rangers have attacked troops protecting a school in southern Thailand, killing four soldiers and wounding two more, police said.

Hundreds of tourists have been stranded on a resort island in southern Thailand after five days of rainstorms triggered widespread flooding.

An elephant has trampled a Swiss tourist to death during what was supposed to be a peaceful ride through the jungle in southern Thailand.

The body of an Irishman has been found in a hotel room in southern Thailand.

At least eight people - all of them Thais - were reported to have been killed and 54 others injured today, when a train derailed during heavy rains near a popular seaside resort in central Thailand.

AN airliner crashed into the control tower after landing on the Thai holiday island of Samui yesterday, killing the pilot.

An airliner crashed into the control tower after landing on the Thai holiday island of Samui today, killing the pilot.

Police say at least 10 people were killed today in southern Thailand when gunmen opened fire on a mosque during evening prayers.

A village chief in southern Thailand was so upset by the corpses of murdered women being left in an isolated part of his town, and the predictions of a shaman that more were to come, that he erected a sign simply reading: “No Dumping Dead Bodies Here”.

Suspected Muslim insurgents have killed nine civilians in a flurry of attacks in southern Thailand, the Thai army said today, the fifth anniversary of a bloody assault by security forces against militants at a mosque.

THREE Burmese fishermen have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a British yacht skipper off southern Thailand’s Andaman sea coast.

Three Burmese fishermen have been arrested suspected of murdering a British yacht skipper off southern Thailand’s Andaman sea coast.

THAI police used tear gas to disperse a crowd of several thousand anti-government protesters who were besieging city police headquarters.

A party set up by people loyal to former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is on course to win Thailand’s election today.

Official campaigning for Thailand's first general elections since last year's military coup began today as 18 parties registered candidates.

Six German tourists and a Thai tour guide were killed after being swept away by flash floods while exploring a cave at in southern Thailand, police said today.

A passenger plane crashed while attempting to land in heavy rain at an airport on southern Thailand’s tourist island of Phuket today, possibly leaving up to 100 dead, an official said.

A passenger plane crashed while attempting to land at southern Thailand’s Phuket airport this afternoon, possibly leaving some people dead and about 20 hurt, an official said.

All 38 passengers and crew aboard a boat that capsized and sank today near a Thai resort island have been rescued, said the governor of the southern province where the accident took place.

Dozens of people were missing after a boat capsized and sank today near a Thai resort island, police said.

A bomb exploded today in front of a crowded tea shop in restive southern Thailand, killing one woman and injuring 23 other people, police said.

A flash flood swept over a series of waterfalls in a popular southern Thailand recreation area today, killing at least 21 people and leaving more feared dead, officials said.

Three Muslim schoolchildren were killed and seven others injured in an attack by suspected insurgents at an Islamic school in southern Thailand, police said today.

Suspected Muslim insurgents launched simultaneous attacks across four provinces in southern Thailand, killing six and wounding at least 50, an army spokesman said.

AT LEAST 28 bombs exploded yesterday in apparently co-ordinated attacks in parts of southern Thailand plagued by a Muslim insurgency, killing three people and wounding more than 50, the military said.

A series of bomb explosions rocked insurgency-plagued southern Thailand, today, killing three people and wounding 53 others, amid power blackouts and telephone cuts.

Power blackouts and a series of bomb explosions rocked areas of southern Thailand today where a Muslim insurgency has killed more than 2,000 people, officials said.

Six people, including two police officers and four civilians, were injured as bomb explosions tore through two karaoke lounges in a hotbed of the Muslim uprising in southern Thailand.

Retired army commander General Sorayud Chulanont was expected to be named interim prime minister today following the announcement of a temporary constitution which reserved considerable powers for Thailand’s military coup makers.

Thailand’s new military leaders today moved to tighten their grip on power, restricting political activities and taking over legislative powers, as former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra broke his silence on his ousting, saying he would take a rest.

An exiled Muslim rebel leader welcomed Thailand’s military overthrow of prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra today, saying the coup could help resolve a bloody Islamic uprising in the country’s south.

Eighteen months ago, tycoon-turned-politician Thaksin Shinawatra won a landslide election victory and became a rising star on the regional stage. Today, he is out of a job after a coup d’etat and considering life in exile.

At least 22 bombs exploded almost simultaneously today inside commercial banks in southern Thailand, killing two people and injuring 28 in a region bloodied by a Muslim insurgency.

Thaksin Shinawatra may return as Thailand’s full-time prime minister, ending a break from politics he took last month amid street protests, a government spokesman said today.

A bomb exploded at a tea shop this morning near a busy market in violence-plagued southern Thailand, killing three people and injuring nine, police said.

The Constitutional Court today annulled Thailand’s April 2 parliamentary election and ordered fresh polls in a bid to end the country’s months-long political crisis, a court official said.