Advancing pools of filthy water threatened the Thai capital’s underground system today and surrounded the emergency headquarters set up to deal with flooding that has claimed more than 500 lives nationwide.

A nightclub owner and a lighting effects company executive have been sentenced to three years' imprisonment each for a fire that killed 67 people in the Thai capital on New Year's Day 2009.

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!”

Nick Faldo kicked off his season with a scintillating seven under par 65 in the Johnnie Walker Classic in Bangkok today.