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Thai yellow-shirt protesters, who oppose ex-PM Thaksin Shinawatra, have given the government a week to end a political crisis or face mass action.

The yellow-shirts, or Peoples' Alliance for Democracy (PAD), are a loose grouping of royalists, businessmen and the urban middle class.

They oppose the pro-Thaksin, mainly poor and rural, red-shirt protesters.

Red-shirts have occupied Bangkok for more than a month in an anti-government campaign that has left 23 people dead.