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BANGKOK — A famous Thai actor has publicly apologised for making a controversial comment about a transgender actress on social media.

BANGKOK — A famous Thai actor has publicly apologised for making a controversial comment about a transgender actress on social media.

BANGKOK — The chairman of Thailand’s military junta and his deputy have suggested that the date of the next national election may be postponed from October 2015 to early 2016.

BANGKOK — A severely indebted Thai rice farmer set herself on fire among a crowd of other petitioners inside the government complaint centre in Bangkok today.

BANGKOK — Dozens of police officers surrounded Democracy Monument last night to prevent a group of Redshirt supporters from picnicking on the monument's steps.

BANGKOK — The five suspects accused by Thai police of acting as armed militants in the 2010 Redshirt protests have recanted their confessions, their lawyer says.

BANGKOK — Junta chairman and Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha sent a close aide to represent him at this morning's commemoration of the 41st anniversary of the student uprising against Thailand's military government in 1973.

PATTANI — Six public schools in were severely damaged in a coordinated arson attack in the restive Southern province of Pattani last night, though no one was killed or injured in the incident.

BANGKOK — The Tourism Authority of Thailand says its preparing to add one more tourist attraction to the Kingdom's long list of temples, beaches, and mountains: life under martial law.

BANGKOK - Coming soon to theatres near you: the wisdom of Thai junta leader and Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha.