A broom seller rides his vehicle past the Cambodian Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. Thailand and Cambodia recalled their ambassadors from each other's country in a diplomatic spat over Phnom Penh naming fugitive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra a government adviser. AP Photo logo AP Photo 1 month ago

A broom seller rides his vehicle past the Cambodian Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand Friday, Nov. 6, 2009. Thailand and Cambodia recalled their ambassadors from each other's country in a diplomatic spat over Phnom Penh naming fugitive former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra a government adviser.

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  1. Supporters of the fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra link their hands at a gathering during the 15th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in the southern Thai resort town of Cha-am on October 23, 2009. Asian leaders are meeting in Thailand amid tight security this weekend to discuss ways to deepen economic ties and sustain the region's rebound from the recent global downturn, officials said.
  2. Sondhi Limthongkul (C), leader of the movement's new political party who led a blockade of Bangkok's airports last year to drive Thaksin's allies from government, answers questions from the press at Metropolitan Police Bureau in Bangkok on October 9, 2009. Sondhi reported to the police and acknowledge the charge for trespassing Government House related to yellow shirt street protests last year.
  3. Sondhi Limthongkul (C), leader of the movement's new political party who led a blockade of Bangkok's airports last year to drive Thaksin's allies from government, arrives at the Metropolitan Police Bureau in Bangkok on October 9, 2009. Sondhi reported to the police and acknowledge the charge for trespassing Government House related to yellow shirt street protests last year.
  4. Sondhi Limthongkul (C), leader of the movement's new political party who led a blockade of Bangkok's airports last year to drive Thaksin's allies from government, answers questions from the press at Metropolitan Police Bureau in Bangkok on October 9, 2009. Sondhi reported to the police and acknowledge the charge for trespassing Government House related to yellow shirt street protests last year.
  5. Sondhi Limthongkul (C), leader of the movement's new political party who led a blockade of Bangkok's airports last year to drive Thaksin's allies from government, answers questions from the press at Metropolitan Police Bureau in Bangkok on October 9, 2009. Sondhi reported to the police and acknowledge the charge for trespassing Government House related to yellow shirt street protests last year.
  6. Sondhi Limthongkul (C), leader of the movement's new political party who led a blockade of Bangkok's airports last year to drive Thaksin's allies from government, answers questions from the press at Metropolitan Police Bureau in Bangkok on October 9, 2009. Sondhi reported to the police and acknowledge the charge for trespassing Government House related to yellow shirt street protests last year.
  7. Thai soldiers stand guard inside the Government House compound in Bangkok on September 19, 2009 during a rally to mark the third anniversary of a military coup that removed Thaksin from power. Thousands of red-shirted protesters rallied in Bangkok amid tight security after the government imposed a Draconian internal security law in the centre of the capital for the latest demonstrations and deployed more than 9,000 soliders and police to guard key locations.
  8. Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen (L) is pictured with fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra during a meeting at his house in Phnom Penh December 14, 2009. Thaksin returned to Cambodia on Sunday, a month after a visit that sparked a diplomatic row when the Cambodian government refused Bangkok's request to extradite him.
  9. Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen (L) hugs fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra during a meeting at his house in Phnom Penh December 14, 2009. Thaksin returned to Cambodia on Sunday, a month after a visit that sparked a diplomatic row when the Cambodian government refused Bangkok's request to extradite him.
  10. Siwarak Chothipong, front left, a former Thai airline employee convicted of spying on Thaksin Shinawatra, walks with his mother Simarak Na Nakhon Panom, front right, out of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's residence in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, Dec. 14, 2009. The Thai man pardoned for spying has been released to the custody of his mother and Thai opposition politicians and will fly home Monday.
  11. Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen (L) hugs fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra during a meeting at his house in Phnom Penh December 14, 2009. Thaksin returned to Cambodia on Sunday, a month after a visit that sparked a diplomatic row when the Cambodian government refused Bangkok's request to extradite him.
  12. Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen (L) hugs fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra during a meeting at his house in Phnom Penh December 14, 2009. Thaksin returned to Cambodia on Sunday, a month after a visit that sparked a diplomatic row when the Cambodian government refused Bangkok's request to extradite him.
  13. Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen (L) shakes hands with Siwarak Chuthipongse's mother Simarak Na Nakhon Panom at his house in Phnom Penh December 14, 2009. Siwarak, a Thai engineer working for Cambodian air traffic control who had been found guilty of spying for leaking fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra's flight details to the Thai embassy, was pardoned last week after a request to Cambodia's king from Thaksin and others, according to a Cambodian minister speaking at the time. Cambodian government spokesman Phay Siphan said Siwarak would be officially freed on Monday at Hun Sen's residence.
  14. Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen (L) poses with Siwarak Chuthipongse (C) and his mother Simarak Na Nakhon Panom (R) at his house in Phnom Penh December 14, 2009. Siwarak, a Thai engineer working for Cambodian air traffic control who had been found guilty of spying for leaking fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra's flight details to the Thai embassy, was pardoned last week after a request to Cambodia's king from Thaksin and others, according to a Cambodian minister speaking at the time. Cambodian government spokesman Phay Siphan said Siwarak would be officially freed on Monday at Hun Sen's residence.
  15. Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen (L) speaks with fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra during a meeting at his house in Phnom Penh December 14, 2009. Thaksin returned to Cambodia on Sunday, a month after a visit that sparked a diplomatic row when the Cambodian government refused Bangkok's request to extradite him.
  16. Siwarak Chutipongse speaks to media after a meeting with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen at his house in Phnom Penh December 14, 2009 . Siwarak, a Thai engineer working for Cambodian air traffic control who had been found guilty of spying for leaking fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra's flight details to the Thai embassy, was pardoned last week after a request to Cambodia's king from Thaksin and others, according to a Cambodian minister speaking at the time. Cambodian government spokesman Phay Siphan said Siwarak would be officially freed on Monday at Hun Sen's residence.

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