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Thailand's central bank cuts interest rates by the biggest amount in eight years, as it aims to lift an economy hit by unrest.

Thousands of demonstrators in Thailand are occupying the prime minister's office compound. They vow to stay there until the government resigns.

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Thailand wants to form an Opec-style rice cartel to give it more control over international prices.

A 27-year-old Thai man who refused to stand when the royal anthem was played in a movie theater has been charged with offending the dignity of Thailand's king.

The man insists there is nothing in the Thai constitution that requires him to stand. The crime is punishable by up to 15 years in prison.

The case is an example of younger people in Thailand challenging the status quo.

Reuters - Fifty-four illegal Myanmar migrants, most of them women, suffocated as they were smuggled into Thailand in a cramped seafood container, police said on Thursday.