Sky News
As Asian leaders gather for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Indonesia, Thailand says it is ready to hold talks with Cambodia over on-going border disputes.
The two countries are locked in a long-running dispute over a 900-year-old temple which lies on the border.
Thailand claims Cambodia is refusing to negotiate.
Meanwhile, Indonesia has warned fellow Southeast Asian states that rising food and energy prices could drive more people into poverty and urged coordinated action to fight inflation.
Indonesian President Susilo BamBang Tudhoyono has told the the annual ASEAN summit that the regional bloc must take steps to ease the surge in consumer prices.
At ASEAN, Asian Leaders will discuss regional security, the economic community and the possibility of Myanmar hosting the conference.
ASEAN members are Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
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