BANGKOK, August 20, 2008 (AFP) - Thailand Wednesday moved to deport former British glam rocker Gary Glitter, one day after he finished jail time in Vietnam for child sex offences, and indicated that he could be bound for another Asian country.

The order was set to end Glitter's state of limbo since he arrived late Tuesday at Bangkok airport from Vietnam, where he had spent almost three years behind bars for committing obscene acts with two girls aged 11 and 12.

The 64-year-old singer had been due to board a connecting flight to London but instead stayed in the airport complaining of chest pains.

A doctor pronounced him fit to fly, saying he was suffering only a minor inflammation in his chest, a medical official at the airport told AFP.

Glitter -- real name Paul Francis Gadd -- then refused to board the next flight to London, but Thai authorities said he had been declared persona non grata and would be expelled.

After initially saying he would be sent to London, Thai immigration spokesman Colonel Voravat Amornvivat said Glitter had agreed to leave for another country in Asia.

'After our last talk with him, he agreed to go to another country in Asia,' he told AFP. 'Thai Airways is making the arrangements now.'

The airline declined to say whether Glitter had been booked onto a flight.

Glitter arrived here from Vietnam after spending two years and nine months in jail for committing obscene acts with the two girls in the southern resort town of Vung Tau in 2005.

On the flight from Vietnam, Glitter continued to profess his innocence and claimed to be happy to return home, according to British media.

'England is my home. It's where my heart is and family are. I can't wait to see them. God bless them all,' he was quoted as saying in The Sun.

'God, am I happy to be leaving Vietnam and that jail. I should never have been in there. It's been a nightmare. Every second. I was set up, that's all I will say.'

But on arrival in Bangkok, Glitter flatly refused to board a flight to London.

'I'm not going back to London. You can't make me. I've done my time. I'm a free man,' he was quoted as saying in The Times.

However, immigration authorities said Glitter had broken the law by spending more than 12 hours in transit without a visa or an onward flight, giving them the right to deport him.

Britain has not announced any outstanding charges against the singer once famed for his flamboyant bouffant wigs and silver jumpsuits, but British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said he should not be allowed to leave once he returns.

Glitter had several hits in the 1970s including 'I'm The Leader Of The Gang (I Am!)' and 'Do You Wanna Touch Me?' The anthemic 1972 hit 'Rock and Roll' is still often chanted in British and US sports stadiums.

He was arrested in Britain in 1997 after he took his computer to a repair shop, where hardcore child pornographic material was found on its hard drive.

He was sentenced in 1999 to four months in prison, of which he served two.

Keen to avoid the media, Glitter reportedly moved to Cuba and then Cambodia, where he was expelled in 2002, allegedly for trawling for underage sex.

Having settled in communist Vietnam, where a British newspaper reported he was living with an underage girl, he was arrested at Ho Chi Minh City airport in November 2005 while trying to leave for Thailand.

In March 2006 he was sentenced to three years in prison, the minimum term under Vietnamese law, which was later cut by three months.

The singer maintained his innocence, blamed a media conspiracy and claimed he was teaching the girls English and allowed them to stay overnight because they were scared of ghosts.