NARATHIWAT (Thailand) - TWO bombs planted by suspected separatist insurgents have killed one person and injured nine others in the Muslim-majority south of Thailand, police said on Friday.

A 20-year-old man was killed and two others including a policeman injured by a bomb planted in a motorcycle on Thursday evening in Narathiwat, one of three southern provinces badly hit by a five-year-long insurgency.

KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIA'S opposition on Friday lodged a bundle of graft allegations with the newly launched Anti-Corruption Commission, saying it would be a test of the body's mettle.

'We want to give an opportunity to the Anti-Corruption Commission to show it is different and that there is hope for the people,' said Badrul Hisham Shaharin, a senior member of Keadilan which leads the opposition alliance.

HANOI - COMMUNIST Laos wants neighbouring Thailand to repatriate by June approximately 5,000 members of the Lao Hmong ethnic minority who remain in Thai refugee camps, said a Lao media report seen on Friday.

Lao government spokesman Yong Chanthalangsy said he was 'encouraged by progress that had resulted in 2000 illegal immigrants being returned to the country since 2006,' said an online report by the Vientiane Times daily.