Thailand is set for an early election after King Maha Vajiralongkorn approved Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul’s request to dissolve parliament on Friday, amid an ongoing border conflict with Cambodia

Anutin, late on Thursday, announced he was "returning power to the people", and King Maha Vajiralongkorn approved his petition to dissolve the house, according to a royal gazette posting overnight, paving the way for an election as early as February.

Anutin's play comes as an armed border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia entered into the fifth day, with at least 20 people killed, close to 200 wounded and hundreds of thousands displaced.

Late on Thursday, US President Donald Trump, who intervened in July the last time fighting erupted, reiterated his plan to call leaders of both cou

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