Oil spill reaches shoreline in eastern Thailand

Some of the oil that leaked from an underwater pipeline in the Gulf of Thailand washed up on a beach in the country's eastern province of Rayong late on Friday, a senior official said.

The navy, which is working to contain the spill at sea, said it may take over a month to restore affected beach areas, following the leakage of an estimated 50,000 litres of oil earlier this week.

The leak from a pipeline owned by...