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SINGAPORE: A check with the ASEAN Summit hotel - Royal Cliff Beach Resort - as well as other top-end popular resorts along the Pattaya Beach in Thailand revealed that the situation there has stabilised for now.
Earlier Saturday, Thai anti-government protesters smashed their way into the summit, forcing the country's embattled prime minister to cancel the meeting and evacuate foreign leaders by helicopter.
Hotel staff told Channel NewsAsia that at the height of the trouble, the protesters were inside the hotel for less than an hour.
While there was damage to the property, staff said it was minimal and limited to broken glass.
Other hotel staff said the protesters had left the seaside town and were believed to have started heading back to Bangkok from about 2pm local Thai time.
The state of emergency imposed on Pattaya by Thai Prime Minister Abhisit has also been lifted.
Mr Kannaphon, assistant communications manager at Royal Cliff Beach Resort, said: "The protesters, they are back to Bangkok.....The hotel is nothing affected - they just come in and leave peacefully, just want the government to resign and meet with the Prime Minister. We have some guests in the hotel but they were not in a panic; they are still in the hotel, nobody checked out."
- CNA/ir
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