Bangkok - Apirak Kosayodhin, a deputy leader of the opposition Democrat Party, swept Bangkok's gubernatorial election over the weekend, winning almost half of the votes in the 16- candidate race, according to official results announced Monday.

Apirak, Bangkok governor for the last four years, retained his job in Sunday's gubernatorial election, in which he won 991,018 votes, or 45.93 per cent of the total, the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority (BMA) said.

Bangkok - Thai police on Sunday arrested Chamlong Srimuang, one of nine leaders of the protest movement that has occupied government headquarters for the past 41 days, to face treason charges.

Chamlong was arrested shortly after he left Government House and cast his vote in Bangkok's gubernatorial election.

Bangkok - Residents of Thailand's capital Bangkok went to the polls Sunday to elect a new governor after an eventful gubernatorial race that included one death by drowning and a punch-up between a candidate and a popular television anchor.

According to opinion polls, the front-runner in Sunday's election was Apirak Kosayodhin, the incumbent governor who is seeking a second term.

Election results will be known by midnight Sunday.

Bangkok - Thailand on Saturday issued an official protest to the Cambodian government over an alleged border incursion and subsequent clash that left three soldiers injured, Thai officials said Saturday.

On Friday a Thai military patrol encountered Cambodian troops allegedly situated about 1 kilometre inside Thai territory near the Phreah Vihear temple, an 11th century Hindu temple that has been the cause of many border disputes between the two neighbouring countries for almost five decades.

Bangkok - Thai police on Friday arrested one of nine leaders of the protest movement that has occupied government headquarters for the past 39 days and detained him to face treason charges.

Chaiwat Sinsuwong, a leader of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) that stormed Government House with thousands of followers on August 26 and have occupied the seat of the executive power since, was arrested as he left the house of Thai politician Kraisak Choonhavan, a member of the opposition Democrat Party.

Chaiwat and eight other leaders of the PAD have been charged with treason, for which the maximum penalty is death.

Bangkok - A US tourist was badly beaten up Friday by a bar owner at Thailand's Pattaya beach resort for refusing to pay 170 baht (5 dollars) for a bottle of beer, news reports said.

Dennis Leo Greenwood, 51, was hospitalized 12:30 am Friday morning at Pattaya Memorial Hospital for treatment of facial injuries, a head wound and several missing teeth, said The Nation online news service.

His Thai girlfriend, Suparp Mahasen, told police that a Pattaya bar owner and another employee had beaten up Greenwood after he refused to pay 170 baht for a bottle of beer, arguing that he had been overcharged.