BANGKOK - THAILAND'S anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) is moving the headquarters of its campaign to Bangkok's two main airports, which it occupied last week, a spokesman said on Monday.

Ms Anchalee Paireerak said the PAD would maintain a presence though its 'security guards' at Government House, which it overran in August, but would not be running a round-the-clock protest at the site, which has come under regular grenade attack.

SCORES of strangers streamed steadily into the white air-conditioned marquee at the foot of the Teresa Ville block, where slain Singaporean lawyer Ms Lo Hwei Yen laid to pay their last respects to her on Monday.

Many did not know her personally but felt compelled to offer a word of comfort and support to her grieving family.

MUMBAI - THE 60-hour killing spree by less than a dozen terrorists in Mumbai last week underscores the failure of India's police force to keep pace with better armed, equipped and trained militants, a former intelligence agent said.

'That system has collapsed,' said Vikram Sood, former director of India's foreign intelligence agency, known as the Research and Analysis Wing. 'Police are overworked, understaffed and undertrained.'

SINGAPOREANS can still expect to enjoy salary increases next year, despite the economic downturn, but increments will be somewhat smaller than this year's.

Human resources consultancy Mercer Singapore yesterday released its salary projections for 2009 after polling more than 230 firms based here, including multi-national corporations, last month.