Thai cabinet decides to postpone Asean Summit
Thailand on Tuesday postponed the Asean summit scheduled to be held in Chaing Mai mid of this month due to the country's current political unrest.
A new date for the Asean summit has not been fixed.
Thai Foreign Minister Sompong Amornvivat said over the weekend said he would ask the Cabinet at its weekly meeting Tuesday that the summit be postponed to March due to political turmoil in the country.
People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) anti-government protesters have shut down Suvarnabhumi international airport and Don Mueang domestic airport in the capital since last week, leaving some 350,000 foreign travelers stranded in Thailand, unable to leave.
The situation worsened when the Constitutional Court on Tuesday dissolved three political parties, including the ruling People Power Party, headed by Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat, on charges of fraud during the general election held in December 2007.
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