Thai authorities have blocked 2,300 websites for allegedly insulting the country's revered monarchy and are waiting for court approval to restrict another 400, the government said Tuesday.

Separatist militants shot dead five people in Thailand's Muslim-majority south, where a bloody insurgency marked its fifth anniversary at the weekend, police said Tuesday.

Thai police say the death toll in a New Year's Eve nightclub fire has reached 64 after two of those injured died.

One person was killed and 41 were injured in a blaze at a Bangkok shopping mall, just days after a fire at a nightclub in the Thai capital killed scores of people, police said Monday.

A blaze in a shopping and residential plaza in Bangkok's Chinatown district killed one person and injured at least 38 others, police said Monday.

A blaze in a shopping and residential plaza in Bangkok's Chinatown district has killed one person and injured at least 38 others, police said Monday.

A blaze in a shopping and residential plaza in Bangkok's Chinatown district has killed one person and injured at least 47 others, news reports said Monday.

Thai police said Sunday they will press charges against one of the main shareholders of a Bangkok nightclub where 62 revellers died on New Year's Day after a fire tore through the upscale venue.

The owner of a Thai nightclub where at least 62 revelers perished in a New Year's Eve fire will face criminal charges over the blaze, which was likely sparked by a countdown fireworks display on the stage of the jammed nightspot, police said Sunday.

Thai police prepared Sunday to interrogate the owner and managers of a high-class Bangkok nightclub where a New Year's Eve fire killed at least 62 people and left dozens of others with massive burns covering most of their bodies.

The death toll from the New Year's fire that tore through a Bangkok nightclub has risen to 62, emergency services said Sunday, as police tried to track down the disco's owners for questioning.

Thailand's new premier has vowed to tackle a separatist insurgency raging in the south, but the Muslim region on Sunday marks five years of bloodshed with little end in sight to the daily violence.

At least 278 Thais have died in road accidents during the New Year holiday, with drink driving causing more than 41 percent of the crashes, the interior ministry said Saturday.

Thailand's interior minister said Friday that a Bangkok nightclub fire that killed about 60 New Year's Eve partygoers could further damage the country's image, already battered by widespread political protests and a recent weeklong closure of the capital's two airports.

Grieving families prayed for the spirits of their loved ones Friday while police probed for the cause of a fire that ravaged a Bangkok nightclub, killing about 60 New Year's Eve partygoers.

Survivors recalled how revellers shoved and trampled on screaming victims to escape the New Year fire at a packed Bangkok club, as police Friday tried to piece together how nearly 60 people died.

Grieving families prayed for the spirits of their loved ones Friday while police probed for the cause of a fire that ravaged a Bangkok nightclub, killing about 60 New Year's Eve partygoers.

Mourners laid flowers outside Bangkok's Santika nightclub Friday as authorities raised to 59 the death toll from the blaze that ripped through the venue as revellers rang in the New Year.

It was billed as a New Year's Eve blowout and a last-night celebration of the wildly popular, classy nightclub before it moved to a new location. "Goodbye Santika," the promotion poster read.

It was billed as a New Year's Eve blowout and a last-night celebration of the wildly popular, classy nightclub before it moved to a new location. "Goodbye Santika," the promotion poster read.