"Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra�s bid to forge better relations with Burma is failing in the face of renewed tensions along the two countries� volatile border. The recent border skirmishes between Thailand and Burma are not the first to erupt between the two neighbors, and they certainly won�t be the last. And as always, this battle is also being fought in the press, where a war of words is heating up. When Thailand�s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra came into office early last year, Thai officials held high hopes of ending the cycle of mutually damaging confrontations between these two historical enemies. Applying a personal, business-centered approach to relations with his country�s western neighbor, tycoon-turned-PM Thaksin believed he could ease long-standing tensions. So far, however, he has failed to end the violence and the seemingly endless recriminations coming from both sides..."