A key town along the border between Thailand and Burma has been fought over by the Burmese military and the rebel forces, who recently captured it and have successfully defended it.
King Maha Vajiralongkorn is the wealthiest monarch in the world with between $30 and $45 billion to his name. The wealthy king has been married four times and has seven children.
Thailand's foreign minister said on Friday that he urged Burma's military authorities to not respond violently to its army's loss of a trading town to guerrillas of the Karen National Union.
A ferry boat with more than 100 people caught fire in Thailand early Thursday, forcing some to jump overboard in fear while a rescue boat saved the remainder.
Wildlife officials in Thailand on Wednesday announced a plan to address the ongoing conflict between humans and monkeys in the central city of Lopburi.
Police Gen. Surachate Hakparn, a deputy chief of the national police force in Thailand, turned himself in on Tuesday after a warrant for his arrest was issued on money laundering charges.
A Thai court has acquitted nearly 70 people of charges related to mass protests in 2008 that resulted in the shutdown of Bangkok's two airports, officials say.
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