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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 [...]

Rare Irrawaddy Dolphins Facing Extinction in Mekong River
The environmental organization, The World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) has announced a study finding that only 64 to possibly 76 Irrawaddy Dolphins remain in the Mekong river. The explanation given for the declining numbers is that toxic pesticides as well as industrial waste are so polluting [...]

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 [...]

World Heritage Site Designation Leads to Thai Cambodian Bickering
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Wednesday that Thailand will request the World Heritage Committee to review the judgment to register Preah Vihear temple, on the border of Si Sa Ket province, as a World Heritage site under the sole administration of Cambodia,
The World Heritage [...]

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 [...]

Baby Panda in Chiang Mai Names Narrowed to Four
A committee made up of members of the Zoological Park Organisation of Thailand has chosen four names from thousands of suggestions submitted from throughout the kingdom for the new female baby panda recently born at the Chiang Mai Zoo.
The four possible names making up the shortlist are [...]