BANGKOK, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- Two bombs exploded at a Thai-Malaysian border checkpoint in Thai far southern province Narathiwat on Wednesday, as the Prime Minister said the government is set to lift emergency decree over the restive southern region.

    Police found that a bomb went off at a customs booth, about 300meters from the border, according to a report by The Nation news website.

    The blast damaged four aluminum computer boxes in a booth, which had only just been installed. The computers were for recording the number of passing vehicles each day.

    Another bomb exploded three meters from the first blast site as authorities began to inspect the scene.

    No one was injured from the two bombings.

    The bombings happened hours before a planned visit by Defense Minister Prawit Wongsuwan and Army Chief Gen Anupong Paojinda to the province, which aims to boost troop morale and to review the work of the Internal Security Operation Command (ISOC).

    Thailand's new Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva will also make a one-day visit to nearby province Yala on Saturday, the first to the violence-torn region since he took office in December.

    Abhisit on Wednesday said the government is ready to lift the emergency decree in the restive southern border provinces -- mainly Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani, while the government might introduce some special security laws to deal with the southern insurgents, who were blamed for over 3,500 lives in the region claimed during the past four years of resurrected insurgent violence in almost daily bombing and shooting attacks.

    He said the government would revise existing laws and mechanisms concerning the southern insurgency, and the emergency decree, which was imposed by the former Thaksin Shinawatra administration after the violence revived in January 2004 and renewed on a three-month basis ever since, will not be automatically extended as done before.