BANGKOK, August 20, 2008 (AFP) - Thailand will deport former glam rocker and convicted paedophile Gary Glitter to another country in Asia, rather than to his native Britain, a Thai immigration official said late Wednesday.

Glitter arrived in Bangkok late Tuesday after being deporting from Vietnam, where he just finished serving nearly three years in prison for child sex offences.

The 64-year-old Briton had been booked to fly to London, but refused to get on the plane, Thai immigration officials said.

Glitter was then denied entry to Thailand because of his conviction, and Thai authorities had initially said he would be deported to London.

'After our last talk with him, he agreed to go to another country in Asia,' Colonel Voravat Amornvivat, a spokesman for the immigration service, told AFP.

'Thai Airways is making the arrangements now,' he added.

Officials at the airline could not be immediately reached for comment.

Glitter -- real name Paul Francis Gadd -- spent two years and nine months in a Vietnamese prison after being convicted of committing obscene acts with the two girls in the southern resort town of Vung Tau in 2005.

He has always maintained his innocence.