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Puea Thai Party Invite Democrat to Lead
A former member of parliament and senate speaker for the Democrat party, Manoonkrit Roopkhachorn, has been invited to lead the Puea party, made up of supporters of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. The announcement was made by Puea MP for Samut Prakarn, Pracha Prasopdee.
Mr Pracha [...]

Thaksin Promises to Fix Everything
The Democrat Party has failed to achieve results around the Thailand’s economic problems because it is not capable and must share decisions among other parties in the current coalition government, according to former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s statements during his phone hookup to the seminar of red-shirt supporters late afternoon on [...]

Abhisit Announces Changes to Thailand’s Investment Laws
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, in a speech about restructuring the Thai economy and riding out the economic crisis, has announced that the Thai government is moving to amend laws regarding investment in an attempt to increase the confidence of those investing in Thai businesses. The government is hoping [...]

Purchase of Armored Limos Approved for Big Shots
The Prime Minister’s cabinet voted on Tuesday to approve a proposal to have the Armed Forces Security Centre of the Royal Thai Armed Forces Command to buy 20 armored limousines for use by VIPs at a cost to the government of 122.8 million baht.
The purpose of the armored [...]

Thai Economy Expected to Return to Health by End of 2010
Kanit Saengsuphan, director of the Fiscal Policy Research Institute, said Wednesday at a seminar called “Financial Situation in the Current Economic Crisis” that the economy is unlikely to return to normal growth until sometime around the end of 2010. He estimates that the growth rate [...]

400 Billion Baht Stimulus Plan Hopes to Boost Thai Economy
Today’s parliamentary session is expected to work toward approval of a 400 billion baht loan package designed to improve the state of the Thai economy. The debate in parliament will last through Tuesday and be carried live on Thai television. Finance Minister Korn Chatikavanij hopes [...]

Thai Community Radio to Come Under Government Supervision
About 1,200 owners and operators of small community radio stations have hurried to submit an application for advance registration so they will be at the top of the line up when the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) issues licenses and frequencies designations
The NTC has informed more than 5,000 neighborhood [...]

Thai Government Vows to End Violence in Southern Thailand in Three Years
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva spoke today about the violence in southern Thailand related to the Muslim insurgency which continues to take innocent lives. The government is setting a deadline of three years to end the violence which has recently included a shooting spree [...]

Cambodia and Laos Removed from U.S. Trade Blacklist
Companies doing business in Laos and Cambodia will be eligible for loans from the U.S. government with the removal of Laos and Cambodia from a trade blacklist meant to prevent loans going to “Marxist-Leninist” governments by the U.S. export-Import Bank.
* President Obama [...]