A dentist looks down from his 20th-floor apartment and sees a body on the pavement, blood streaming from the head.

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”.

The death toll in the New Year's Eve bombing in the Thai capital Bangkok rose to three today.

Two more bombs exploded in Bangkok just after midnight, wounding seven people, including six foreigners, a Thai television station reported today.