Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is seen at the Parliament in Bangkok November 10, 2009. The Thai Cabinet approved Tuesday ending talks with Cambodia on their disputed. maritime border to protest Phnom Penh's appointment of ousted Thai Prime. Minister Thaksin Shinawatra as an economic adviser, Thailand's deputy. government spokesman said. The approval came the same day as Thaksin arrived in Cambodia to meet. Prime Minister Hun Sen and give an economic lecture to more than 300 Cambodian. economists later in the week. Reuters Pictures 2 weeks ago

Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is seen at the Parliament in Bangkok November 10, 2009. The Thai Cabinet approved Tuesday ending talks with Cambodia on their disputed. maritime border to protest Phnom Penh's appointment of ousted Thai Prime. Minister Thaksin Shinawatra as an economic adviser, Thailand's deputy. government spokesman said. The approval came the same day as Thaksin arrived in Cambodia to meet. Prime Minister Hun Sen and give an economic lecture to more than 300 Cambodian. economists later in the week.

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  2. Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, right, greets back to a victim of the train derailment at a hospital in Hua Hin, Prachuabkirikhant province, sothern Thailand Monday, Oct. 5, 2009. A train derailed during heavy rains Monday near Thailand's coastal city of Hua Hin, killing at least 10 people, including a 2-year-old girl, and injuring 88 others, officials said.
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  5. Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva (R) stands next to Russian tennis player Marat Safin (L) during the opening ceremony of ATP Thailand Open tennis tournament in Bangkok on October 1, 2009. Gilles Simon of France tested his chronic sore knee with a 6-2, 6-2 defeat of American Kevin Kim while retiring Russian Marat Safin ticked up another tournament loss Thursday as he winds down his career at the Thailand Open.
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  13. Cambodian Pime Minister Hun Sen and Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong (L) at the 15th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting in Cha-am, Thailand October 24, 2009. In a slap in the face to Thailand's rulers, Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun offered fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra a job as economic adviser. Thaksin, ousted in a 2006 coup, heavily influences a red-shirted, anti-government protest movement from self-imposed exile in Dubai. Thailand is seeking to extradite him to serve a jail term for corruption.
  14. A demonstrator from Thailand's royalist 'Yellow Shirt' movement holds a sign showing former premier Thaksin Shinawatra (L) hugging Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen (R) during a rally in Bangkok on November 15, 2009. Thousands of royalist demonstrators protested in Bangkok against a visit to Cambodia by their arch-foe, fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra. The group said it had called the rally to express outrage at the neighbouring country's appointment of Thaksin as an economic adviser and Phnom Penh's refusal to extradite him during his four-day trip there this week.
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