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.