BANGKOK - THAI media organisations on Monday condemned growing violence against reporters covering the country's escalating political crisis amid a siege of Bangkok's airports.

The National Press Council of Thailand, Thai Journalists Association and Broadcast Journalists Association issued a joint statement saying it was becoming difficult for the media to work in the field.

BANGKOK - THAI police on Monday asked the military to help them guard the Constitutional Court, ahead of a ruling that could dissolve the governing party as protests against it shutter the airports.

The court has said it will wrap up its case Tuesday, as it decides whether to disband three parties in the ruling coalition because some of their executives were convicted of vote fraud after elections in December 2007

JAKARTA - INDONESIA has offered to step in to host some South-east Asian ministerial meetings due to be held next month in Thailand because of the political crisis in its neighbour, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said on Monday.