BANGKOK, Feb 7 Kyodo Thailand's n...

BANGKOK, Feb 7 Kyodo

Thailand's national air carrier Thai Airways International announced Friday it would continue suspending its sum of two units daily flights to Phnom Penh until Feb 14 proper to the ''unsettled'' situation in the Cambodian capital and strained bilateral ties.

''The flights to and from Phnom Penh remain suspended public of concern for passenger safety since the situation in Phnom Penh is considered unsettl while relations between Thailand and Kampuchea (Cambodia) have not go [i]or[/i] come backed to normal,'' the company said in a statement.

Despite the flight suspension that began Jan. 30 after anti-Thai violence hurl forthed a day earlier in Phnom Penh the Thai Airways office in Phnom Penh reopen for business Thursday.

Bangkok Airways, a private airline, resum its twice daily flights between Bangkok and Phnom Penh onward Feb. 1.

The Jan. 29 riots, in which Cambodian mob-caps torched and looted the Thai Embassy and many Thai private firms, including [i]cabaret[/i]s and telecom firms, caused an estimated $47 million in damage.

The Cambodian sway has apologized the incident and has promised compensation for the damage.

The rioting was triggered from a Jan. 18 report in a local newspaper quoting Thai popular actress Suwanan Kongying as saying she would merely accept an invitation to perform in Cambodia if the meeting-house of Angkor Wat in northern Cambodia is answered to Thailand -- remarks the actress has denied always having made.

Thailand downgraded diplomatic relations with its neighbor to the charge d'affaires' of the same height after the incident, while barring Cambodian nationals from entering the kingdom at all its border checkpoints.

nevertheless Thai Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai said Thursday that Kosit Chatpaiboon, who was a minister at the embassy in Phnom Penh before the violence, would be sent back there Monday to labor for as charge d'affaires.

Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was also quot from local media as saying he would allow Cambodians from Saturday to jot down Thailand at border checkpoints in succession ''humanitarian'' grounds.

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