THAI and Cambodian troops clashed for a third straight day yesterday over their disputed border, with gunfire and explosions echoing through mountainous jungle for several hours despite a call for a ceasefire by UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon.

Thailand’s ruling Democrat Party staved off possible dissolution today when a court refused to accept a case accusing it of illegal financing.

Thailand’s ruling Democrat Party survived a legal challenge today which could have seen it dissolved and a new government formed after the Constitutional Court dismissed a charge that it misused an election fund.

TIGER WOODs returned to his mother’s home country for a four-man charity skins tournament yesterday and left soon after winning only one hole in another disappointing performance.

Several hundred Red Shirt protesters defied a state of emergency in the Thai capital to stage a symbolic protest, with hundreds of people sprawling on the ground and chanting: “People died here!”

Thailand’s government must hold elections soon to prove it has a public mandate after protests that left 90 dead in the nation’s capital, a lawyer for fugitive former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said today.

A Briton shouted abuse about Thailand’s prime minister when he appeared in court today charged over recent anti-government riots.

THAILAND’S parliamentary opposition accused Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva of human rights abuses yesterday in a no confidence motion centred on the use of violence in tackling anti-government protests.

Thailand’s Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant against former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on terrorism charges related to the country’s recent bloody protests.

Almost the entire core leadership of the Thai protesters who built barricades and battled with soldiers in central Bangkok was in custody following the surrender today of two top organisers, official media said.

THAILAND’S prime minister extended a night time curfew in the capital and said he will consider early elections only after the violence that has wracked the nation for the past two months is completely over.

THAILAND’S premier said order has been restored after a deadly crackdown on anti-government protests triggered mayhem in the capital, but that the divided kingdom faces “huge challenges“.

Thailand’s prime minister today promised an independent probe into “all events” surrounding anti-government protests, and called for reconciliation to heal deep political divisions that led to widespread violence and 83 deaths in two months.

Thailand will not hold elections as demanded by anti-government protesters until passions from more than two-months of political violence are calmed, a key minister said today.

CENTRAL Bangkok became a flaming battleground yesterday as an army assault forced anti-government protest leaders to surrender, enraging followers who shot grenades and set fire to landmark buildings, cloaking the skyline in black smoke.

Central Bangkok became a flaming battleground today as an army assault forced anti-government protest leaders to surrender, enraging followers who shot grenades and set fire to landmark buildings, cloaking the skyline in black smoke.

Thai authorities today announced they plan to impose a curfew in parts of Bangkok that have been wracked by clashes between Red Shirt protesters and the army.

Thailand’s prime minister has today defended the deadly army crackdown on protesters in Bangkok, saying the country’s very future was at stake.

The Thai army has designated an area in central Bangkok as a “live firing zone” in a warning to protesters and local residents.

Thai troops clashed with protesters for a third day in Bangkok today, as streets in the centre of the city became battlegrounds and authorities struggled to contain Red Shirt demonstrators demanding the prime minister's resignation.

THAI troops fired bullets at anti-government protesters, and explosions thundered in the heart of Bangkok yesterday as an army push to clear the streets and end a two-month political standoff sparked clashes that have killed eight and wounded 101.

Troops fired on anti-government protesters rioting near foreign embassies in Bangkok today as an army push to clear the streets sparked bloody clashes.

A Red Shirt aide has said a military strategist involved with protestors in Thailand had been shot in the head as gunfire and explosions echoed through central Bangkok today.

Gunfire and explosions echoed through central Bangkok today hours after the government warned it was going to seal off the area occupied by thousands of protesters.

Thailand’s army said today it would begin limiting supplies of water, food and electricity to protesters camped in central Bangkok in a bid to clear the streets by midnight.

Thai anti-government protesters said today they accept prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva’s proposal to hold elections in November but will not end their Bangkok protest unless a senior government official surrenders to authorities.

Thai protesters said today they had accepted a deal to end the violent political crisis that has paralysed central Bangkok for nearly two months.

Thailand’s prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has today offered to hold a new election on November 14 if anti-government protesters accept his reconciliation plan and peace and stability is restored.

Thailand’s prime minister said today that he had no plans to declare martial law despite growing demands for the government to take firmer measures to end protests that have paralysed parts of Bangkok for seven weeks.

A Thai hospital had to evacuate hundreds of patients today after anti-government protesters stormed in to hunt for security forces they suspected were hiding inside.

Thai security forces fired bullets in the air today as they faced anti-government protesters on the outskirts of Bangkok.

Thai protesters demanding the dissolution of parliament planned to spread out into more parts of Bangkok today, a day after forcing a shutdown of the capital’s busy elevated train system and escalating weeks of anti-government demonstrations.

THAILAND’S pro-establishment “Yellow Shirts” called for the imposition of martial law to end mass anti-government protests by the rival “Red Shirts” warning they may take action themselves.

Leaders of Thailand’s Red Shirt protesters told their followers to lose their signature crimson clothing so they can go undercover in case of a possible government crackdown.

Thailand’s embattled prime minister appeared on television today but offered no initiatives to end the country’s weeks long, sometimes bloody, political crisis a day after rejecting a compromise proposal by protesters occupying central Bangkok.

AT LEAST three people were killed and dozens were injured in a series of explosions near a massive encampment of anti-government protesters in Bangkok yesterday.

Dozens of people were injured in a series of explosions near a massive encampment of anti-government protesters in Bangkok today.

Thai protesters today vowed to fortify their sprawling encampment in Bangkok’s upmarket hotel-and-shopping district before venturing out to “wage a big war” to topple the government.

Thai troops armed with assault rifles moved into Bangkok’s central business district today to stop thousands of anti-government protesters who had threatened to march down the capital’s “Wall Street”.

Thailand's beleaguered government insisted it had no plan for an immediate crackdown on protesters despite handing over security operations to the army chief, saying today that too many people are camped in central Bangkok to use force.

THAI Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva yesterday made his army chief the head of national security in a bid to involve the military as anti-government protesters massed in the streets calling for his downfall.

Thai anti-government protesters cancelled a march today on a military camp where the prime minister has hidden during their month-old campaign to oust him.

THAILAND’S election body called for the dissolution of the ruling party, piling the pressure on embattled Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva after the bloodiest political unrest in 18 years.

Red-shirted protesters paraded coffins through Thailand’s capital today in a renewed attempt to pressure the government to step down after street fighting left 21 people dead, pushing the South-east Asian nation closer to political anarchy.