BEIJING - THAILANDS' Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is to visit China to reassure Beijing that a key Asian summit postponed due to unrest and rescheduled for October will be secure, state media said Thursday.
BANGKOK - THAILAND'S cabinet on Thursday approved an emergency US$1.6 billion (S$2.32 billion) budget to develop the economy of the restive far south after a recent upsurge in deadly violence in the region.
MANILA- A FILIPINO bomb expert from the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) group, who is thought to have carried out a deadly attack on Manila in 2000 was arrested Thursday in the southern Philippines, police said.
