BANGKOK, Nov 19 (Reuters) - A diplomatic row between Cambodia and Thailand has moved into the skies after Phnom Penh took control of a Thai-operated air traffic control company at the centre of spying allegations.
The Cambodian government has appointed a senior Civil Aviation official as temporary caretaker for Cambodia Air Traffic Services (CATS), a wholly owned unit of Thailand's Samart Corporation Pcl, Samart said on Thursday.
All Thai expatriates at the company have been banned from performing their duties, it added.
The neighbouring countries are embroiled in a diplomatic row that began in October when Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen offered fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra a job as an economic adviser and a home just across the border. Thaksin, twice elected but deposed in a 2006 military coup and sentenced last year to two years in jail for graft, has been living in self-imposed exile, largely in Dubai. He spent five days in Cambodia last week, infuriating the Thai government.
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