Bangkok - Supporters of an anti-government movement seized a government-run television station Tuesday and forced it off the air in what they called their final showdown with Thailand's current administration.

People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) supporters seized the National Broadcasting Service of Thailand (NBT) in Bangkok and have demanded Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej and his cabinet step down.

Police Tuesday morning threatened to arrest PAD leaders Sondhi Limthongkul and Chamlong Srimuang, but had yet to do so.

Earlier Sondhi called Tuesday "the last whistle blow" in their efforts to topple Samak's government.

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Bangkok  - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday shut down its "relief air bridge" to Myanmar after delivering 4 million tons of cargo from Bangkok to the victims of Cyclone Nargis.

Thai authorities were quick to offer Don Mueang, Bangkok's old international airport, as a logistics hub for the massive relief effort for neighbouring Myanmar in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, which hit the impoverished country in May, leaving about 140,000 dead or missing and another 2.4 million badly in need of food, medicine and shelter.

The international relief effort was initially stalled by Myanmar's ruling military junta, which was reluctant to allow an unhindered influx of cargo and foreign aid workers into the cloistered country.

Pattani, Thailand  - A bomb killed two people, including a journalist, and injured 30 in a Thai-Malaysian border town in the latest act of violence in Thailand's majority-Muslim deep South, police said Friday.

The bomb was detonated about 9 pm Thursday in Sungai Kolok, 850 kilometres south of Bangkok, after Thai journalists and police had gathered at the scene of an earlier, smaller roadside explosion.

Killed in the blast was a reporter for the Thai Rath newspaper. The second victim, a villager, died in hospital Friday morning, police said.

Bangkok - Former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra and his wife, Pojaman, have started legal procedures for seeking political asylum in Britain, media reports said Thursday.

"At this moment, Thaksin's legal team is proceeding to ask for political asylum for Thaksin and his family in Britain," Watchara Seangprathum, the head of Thaksin's legal team in Thailand, told The Nation newspaper.