Thai, Malaysian cabinets meet under tight security
HAT YAI, Thailand Thai and Malaysian cabinet ministers met under extremely tight security today to discuss regional terrorism as well as a planned gas pipeline that sparked violent protests in this southern city.
Some 5,000 security forces, including army commandos and air force personnel, were deployed to prevent a repeat of Friday's clashes between police and villagers demonstrating against the pipeline which left dozens injured.
Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his Malaysian counterpart Dr Mahathir Mohamad held a separate meeting before joining their cabinets for an informal round-table discussion.
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