Cambodian and Thai officials held talks to prevent fresh fighting on their border Sunday after tensions over disputed land around an ancient temple flared into deadly gunbattles.
A third Thai soldier died in hospital following Friday’s clashes, which rattled relations between the neighbours just days before a regional summit that was supposed to focus on the global economic slowdown.
Military officials from both sides met over lunch in disputed territory near the 11th-century Preah Vihear temple on Sunday, while Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen was set to meet Thai officials later in …

Crowds opposed to Thailand’s new Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva are rallying outside parliament for a second day.
Mr Abhisit was due to make his first policy speech on Monday, but had to abandon the attempt.
Demonstrators loyal to the ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra blockaded the building.
Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said the police had been ordered not to use violence to clear the protesters and allow Mr Abhisit access.
“We don’t want to start our government’s work with violence,” he said.

BANGKOK: Anti-government protesters ended their paralysing eight-day blockade of Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport yesterday, allowing for the resumption of the first handful of flights and raising the hopes of thousands of stranded travellers.
A Thai Airways domestic flight from Phuket with about 300 passengers was the first to land, touching down shortly after 2 pm, followed shortly by the first international flight, a Royal Jordanian airliner from Amman.

BANGKOK (AFP) — A grenade attack killed an anti-government protester at a besieged Bangkok airport Tuesday, as further unrest forced a key hearing on the possible dissolution of the ruling party to move.
The incidents raised tensions in an increasingly bloody political stand-off that began a week ago, stranding about 350,000 frustrated travellers and causing massive damage to Thailand’s economy.

BANGKOK (Reuters) – A grenade blast wounded 46 anti-government protesters in Bangkok, hospital officials said on Sunday, the latest escalation in the country’s increasingly violent political crisis.
The blast occurred around midnight at Government House, where thousands of supporters of the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), who have occupied the prime minister’s compound since August in a bid to unseat him, were attending a rally.

Thai riot police fled their checkpoint outside Bangkok’s besieged international airport today when they were attacked by several hundred armed anti-government protesters.
Some 150 officers stationed half a mile down the expressway leading to Suvarnabhumi airport’s terminal piled into their vehicles and left as a convoy of demonstrators drove towards them.

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Protesters laying siege to Bangkok’s two airports braced for a battle with security forces on Friday after Thailand’s prime minister declared a state of emergency to end a blockade threatening to cripple the economy.
People’s Alliance of Democracy (PAD) “security guards,” armed with sticks and metal bars, manned makeshift fortified roadblocks on the expressway leading to the capital’s $4 billion Suvarnabhumi airport, shut since Tuesday.
There were similar scenes at the city’s Don Muang airport, whose closure late on Wednesday severed all air links between the city of …

BANGKOK: Protestors forced the closure of Bangkok’s second airport Thursday severing the last remaining commercial air links to the Thai capital.
Until Wednesday airlines were operating domestic flights out of Don Muang airport, Bangkok’s oldest airfield.
Officials are now considering using military airports in the area to accommodate flights diverted from Suvarnabhumi airport, which has been closed since Tuesday evening.

The owner of a Thai fishing trawler has said the Indian navy sank it off Somalia’s coast last week after wrongly assuming it was a pirate “mother ship”.
Wicharn Sirichaiekawat said the Indian frigate had attacked the Ekawat Nava 5 while it was being hijacked by pirates.
He said one of the crew had been found alive after six days in the Gulf of Aden, but that another 14 were missing.
The Indian navy has insisted the vessel fired in self-defence at a pirate ship which had been stacked with explosives.
Almost 40 …

Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to resolve a border dispute peacefully “for the sake of our neighbourliness”.
Bilateral talks on the issue were held on the sidelines of the Asia-Europe summit (Asem) in Beijing.
The demarcation of land around Preah Vihear temple on the countries’ border has never been clearly settled.
Tensions have recently been rekindled, and last week erupted into open combat. Three Cambodian and one Thai soldier died in exchanges of fire.