Bangkok  - Thai Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya left Sunday for an official two-day visit to Myanmar that is expected to touch on the controversial issue of the two countries' joint efforts to solve the ethnic minority Rohingya problem.

In his first official visit to Myanmar as foreign minister, Kasit will meet Prime Minister General Thein Sein and his counterpart Nyan Win in the military's new capital of Naypyitaw, 350 kilometres north of Yangon.

Bangkok  - Thousands of protestors surrounded Government House in Bangkok for the second day Wednesday as others demonstrated outside the foreign ministry calling for the resignation of Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya.

The protests organized by the United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) were designed to embarrass the government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva before its hosts the 14th Summit of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Friday to Sunday in Cha-am, 130 kilometres south-west of Bangkok.

But they did not prevent Abhisit from entering Government House Wednesday morning, although the weekly cabinet meeting was moved to Cha-am Tuesday.