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WHO urges its member states to construct Reproductive Health Index

BANGKOK (NNT) -- The 28th Meeting of Ministers of Health of Countries of World Health Organization (WHO), on the second day has recommended all member states to construct their own Reproductive Health Index.

Public Health Minister Jurin Laksanawisit spoke on the second day meeting that the launch of Reproductive Health Index had been urged among WHO member states in a bid to help monitor population trend and that appropriate measures can be adopted to prevent HIV/AIDS, Cancer and maternal deaths. The assignment is somehow in line with the latest adoption of the Reproductive Health Act in Thailand.

In addition, improving urban livings and local healthcare have been underlined by Thailand's Public Health Ministry as 38% increase in population was speculated within the next 10 years.

-- NNT 2010-09-09

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Kanit´s fact-finding members attend special legal training

BANGKOK (NNT) -- Prof Dr Kanit Na Nakorn, chair of the Independent Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Thailand (ITRCT) on Wednesday clarified the ITRCT

working process, in which three sub-committees had been tasked to focus on investigation, remedial measures and fact delivering to supporters of anti-government United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD).

According to Mr Kanit, the commission has an opportunity to monitor the situation once a week, while well-trained officials have been dispatched to heal people with psychological trauma at the provinces of Udon Thani to Ubon Ratchathani.

Mr Kanit admittedly stated that the team had experienced difficulties while conducting investigation as the commission has no power to call suspects and related people over for further investigation, unlike the police and officials of the Department of Special Investigation. Therefore, the public are urged to provide other necessary information.

He dismissed the allegation that his assembly was related to the government’s call on opposition party to discuss about national reconciliation issue, but asserted that the peace talks would be a great way to restore order.

As for Wednesday, legal experts partook in a three-day training session chaired by Mr Kanit. The panel was attended by Thai officials who had been trained on various

legal fields with regards to the international human rights and domestic law as well as other special skills to further conduct special investigation at the scenes.

-- NNT 2010-09-09

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PM assigns 2 ministries to visit Deep South

BANGKOK (NNT) -- Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has tasked the Ministries of Education and Interior to visit the Deep South to closely oversee violence against local teachers after two of them were killed on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Abhisit said that he had assigned Education Minister Chinnaworn Boonyakiat and Deputy Minister of Interior Thaworn Senneam to travel to the southern border provinces within the next two days to acknowledge all problems related to the restive situation and to create correct understanding with the locals.

The order came as a response to the Southern Teachers’ Federation’s call for tighter security control in the area after two teachers in Narathiwat were shot dead by insurgents on Wednesday morning. All schools in the province have been ordered to close for 3 days for safety reason.

Prime Minister Abhisit also admitted that the situation in the Deep South had worsened and declared that he would visit the troubled region by himself when the time was appropriate.

Meanwhile, Government Spokesperson Dr Panitan Wattanayagorn stated that representatives of the Southern Teachers’ Federation would meet with the premier next

week in order to clarify local problems and to inquire about the Government’s solutions.

-- NNT 2010-09-09

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Govt Rules out Dropping Anti-monarchy Cases

A deputy prime minister turns down a senior Pheu Thai Party MP's call for dropping anti-monarchy cases against its members as part of the government's reconciliation effort.

He also denies knowledge about his Democrat Party's possible secret talks with Pheu Thai on the peace plan.

Deputy Prime Minister in charge of national security Suthep Thaugsuban said he had no idea about the rumor that the Pheu Thai Party's offer for a national reconciliation dialogue resulted from secret negotiations between its leaders and key persons of the ruling Democrat Party.

Suthep also denied knowledge about Democrat Bangkok Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra acting as middleman in the rumored government's talks with ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra abroad.

Suthep added he cannot meet the proposal by Pheu Thai MP chief Chaloem Yoobamrung on dropping anti-monarchy and terrorism charges against the party's

members.

He also noted the latter's proposal could confuse the general public.

The deputy premier went on to say the remark by Chat Thai Pattana Party chief adviser Banharn Silpa-archa on the slim chance of national unity given the uncompromising stance of the Democrat and Pheu Thai parties is merely a personal opinion.

Suthep said Banharn's comment will not discourage the government's peace-rebuilding campaign as the effort has been backed by the people nationwide and the prime minister is determined to achieve such a goal.

Suthep said the government is committed to resolving hurdles besetting the peace efforts suggested by all segments.

He also called on Pheu Thai to make it clear about the group's actual stance on the reconciliation process as the government has already initiated its own attempt to restore national unity.

-- Tan Network 2010-09-09

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Tax revenue exceeds target during past 11 months

BANGKOK (NNT) -- The Government’s tax revenue collection has exceeded its target by 110 billion THB during the first eleven months of the 2010 fiscal year.

According to Director-General of the Revenue Department Winai Witthawaskarnvej, the Government's tax revenue in August reached as high as 222.16 billion THB, exceeding its projection by 42.86 billion THB or 23.9%. He said higher-than-expected figures were seen in the collection of all types of taxes, especially corporate income tax.

The total tax revenue collection for the first eleven months of the 2010 fiscal year (October 2009-August 2010) stood at 1.18 trillion THB, higher than the same period last year by 113.55 billion THB or 10.61%. The amount also exceeded the initial projection by 147.87 billion THB or 14.28%.

-- NNT 2010-09-09

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CRES sees need to retain Emergency Decree

BANGKOK (NNT) -- The Center for the Resolution of the Emergency Situation (CRES) is intent on maintaining the Emergency Decree in the remaining provinces due to lingering anti-government movements.

Colonel Sansern Kaewkamnerd, CRES Spokesperson, revealed that one of the key points raised during the meeting today was the ongoing attempts by ill-intentioned groups to distort facts and information related to the deaths of 89 people during the recent anti-government protests. The other two top agendas were the need to retain the State of Emergency in the current seven provinces following the latest series of grenade attacks in Bangkok and the upcoming anti-government activities in the capital and Chiang Mai on 19 September to mark the 4th anniversary of the 2006 military coup.

The CRES spokesperson urged those planning to participate in the movements to think about possible adverse impact on the country as a whole. He asserted that legal punishments would be taken against those breaching the law.

-- NNT 2010-09-09

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Police blow cover of drug busters

By The Nation

A large cache of narcotics worth more than Bt140 million was found yesterday at an abandoned petrol station in Ayutthaya, but a team of civilian anti-narcotics agents could not get their hands on the drug dealers because their cover was blown out by local police.

The drugs, placed inside in a pickup truck, were dropped off at the site in Wang Noi district supposedly by sellers, before Wang Noi police, acting upon a complaint by the owner of the premises, searched the vehicle yesterday, prompting the anti-narcotics team to abort its stakeout.

The cache contains 32 1-kilogram packs of "ice" worth around Bt100 million and 150,000 amphetamine tablets worth around Bt40 million. The Office of Narcotic Control Board agents said later that they were following the vehicle, with a Nakhon Pathom license plate, but gave up after Wang Noi police showed up.

Meanwhile yesterday, police arrested three people during a delivery of 10,000 amphetamine tablets near Erawan Museum in Samut Prakan province, before seizing another 90,000 tablets at one of the suspect's home.

In another arrest on Tuesday, police apprehended a second-year computer student for possessing 400 amphetamine tablets, which he bought through SMS.

-- The Nation 2010-09-09

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Nothing concrete from govt on added teacher protection in deep South

By The Nation

As more than 300 schools in Narathiwat province shut down yesterday in the wake of a fatal attack on two teachers earlier in the week, the government remained vague about how to better protect educational personnel from the raging violence in the deep South.

The unrest, which flared up early in 2004, has now killed 135 teachers in the southernmost provinces.

Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban, who oversees security affairs, yesterday expressed condolences to the relatives of Wilas Phetprom and his wife Khomkham.

In their early 50s, the teachers were gunned down while on their way to a market in Narathiwat on Tuesday morning.

Suthep vowed to look into the details of their slaying and see how security measures could be intensified. However, he said the government had in fact already put in place stringent measures to protect teachers by offering accommodation units within school compounds and security escorts.

According to him, the attack on the Phetproms took place at a time when the couple were attending to personal business, which meant they had left home without a security escort.

Asked about the decision by Narathiwat schools to shut down for at least three days, Suthep said the government would talk to the local teachers and try to sort out the problem.

Boonsom Thongsriplai, who chairs the Confederation of Teachers in the Three Southern Border Provinces, said his group had a resolution whereby teachers could suspend classes whenever they felt unsafe.

Yesterday, most of the 365 schools across Narathiwat closed their doors in response to the deadly attack on Wilas and his wife.

"We are having discussions on whether schools in Yala and Pattani should close down too," Boonsom said. "Perhaps some of the schools in risky zones will do so."

He said his confederation would no longer propose security plans to the relevant agencies, because their previously proposed measures - now implemented - had been unable to stop the attacks on teachers.

"We will let the security agencies handle this issue," he added.

The confederation has urged Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to prioritise resolving the unrest in the deep South.

For those teachers killed during the separatist violence, the confederation believes the victims should be promoted posthumously in line with the practice for slain security officials.

Meanwhile, Piyaporn Phetprom, 20, was grieving over the deaths of her parents. "My siblings and I have no idea how to live on," the third-year university student said.

Her two sisters are still studying, too.

Education Minister Chinnaworn Boonyakiat, Education Ministry permanent secretary Chaleaw Yusemarak, Fourth Army Region chief Lt-General Pichet Wisaijorn and Narathiwat Governor Thanon Vejjakornkanont yesterday attended the funeral of Wilas and Khomkham at Wat Lamphu in Narathwiat.

At the funeral, Chinnaworn presented Bt1million to the victims' children from the teacher welfare fund. He also handed over financial aid and compensation from two other schemes.

Pichet also handed over compensation from a project for people affected by the unrest in the deep South.

Chinnaworn said his ministry would consider urgently recruiting the Phetproms' eldest daughter as a government teacher.

Pattama Phetprom, 24, is currently a graduate student. She has also applied for a job with the ministry.

The royally sponsored cremation ceremony for Wilas and Khomkham is scheduled to take place on Saturday.

-- The Nation 2010-09-09

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DSI urges witnesses to come forward

By The Nation

Those who witnessed deaths during the red-shirt protests in May and come forward to testify with the Department of Special Investigation will be given legal immunity and exemption from criminal prosecution as well as personal protection as needed, DSI director-general Tharit Phengdit said yesterday.

As part of the investigation into deaths during the protests, the DSI is obtaining documents on the deployment of troops and an inventory of weapons used by the military. It is also seeking information from the Democratic Alliance against Dictatorship (DAAD), which organised the protests, and the Pheu Thai Party, which has ties to DAAD.

The DSI also welcomes those with insider knowledge to come forward or give their accounts via the 1202 hotline. Media footage and personal videos will also be used as evidence in the investigation of 12 incidents during the two-month-long protest that led to 89 deaths.

The DSI investigation should be completed within a 45-day time frame.

As for a parallel DSI investigation into lese majeste cases, the accused people will not be summoned for questioning until an ongoing questioning session with government investigators and officials from the Centre for the Resolution of Emergency Situation (CRES), who lodged the complaints, is completed.

Meanwhile, the Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC) yesterday gave an orientation to the "Truth Seeking" committee it had set up to compile evidence in the May protests. The 30-strong panel comprises 30 members tasked with gathering facts and evidence from various incidents in a two-year period.

The TRC also welcomes text details or visual and audio materials of the incidents through trc [at] oja.go.th; Lak Si PO Box 56 Bangkok 10210; (02) 143 8353; or in person at the TRC office on ninth floor of the government centre off Chaeng Watthana Road. TRC will publish its first report by mid-January.

-- The Nation 2010-09-09

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Agency would 'smooth links between govt, bureaucrats'

By Piyanart Srivalo

The Nation

An agency promoting good governance in the public sector floated the idea yesterday of setting up a new body to deal with the policies and promises of lawmakers that might disrupt the work of the bureaucracy.

Thosaporn Sirisumphand, secretary general of the Office of the Public Sector Development Commission (OPDC), said that in the past, policies arising from election campaign platforms sometimes obstructed or interrupted the work of agencies going about their routine duties.

"The bureaucrats' work did not make much progress because they focused too much on implementing the policies declared during elections," he said.

For example, Thosaporn explained, the Otop (One Tambon, One Product) project should come under the care of such a new agency. It is now under the Interior Ministry's Community Development Department, which has no direct involvement with the project.

He said the idea was to create a new agency with a special managerial format that would be staffed with political appointees. These staff members would have to leave office when the government that appointed them completed its term, he said, adding that similar formats were used in the United States and Australia.

"The idea is to allow politicians to bring in their teams to devote their time fully on the policies expressed in their campaign platforms," Thosaporn said at the Royal Princess Larn Luang Hotel.

He said the OPDC was making final conclusions on the idea and would submit them to the government-appointed National Reform Committee, headed by former prime minister Anand Panyarachun, by the end of this month.

The OPDC, established in 2002 under the Prime Minister's Office, has the duty of initiating and suggesting policies to the Cabinet for development of the public sector and for good governance.

Yesterday, at the hotel, the OPDC launched the project "Adapt, Change and Reform the Way of Running Thailand". The agency is welcoming ideas about reforming the public sector through a website, www.ideas4reform.com.

Thosaporn said the OPDC found that changes in the public sector in the recent past were made from the bureaucracy's perspectives, with no participation from the public and other elements in society. He said the blame lay with the current problems of double standards and corruption, which have led to severe social division.

He said suggestions gathered by the OPDC by next April would be forwarded to the Anand committee and later to the government.

-- The Nation 2010-09-09

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HOUSE MEETING ON BOUT TURNS UGLY

By The nation

A House panel meeting on the Viktor Bout extradition saga turned ugly yesterday when two MPs at the centre of the matter started exchanging angry words and making personal attacks rather than focusing on the matter at hand.

In the session called by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Democrat MP Sirichoke Sopha reiterated his theory that Bout was possibly involved with the planeload of weapons that was intercepted in Thailand in March.

He also implied that there was a connection between Bout and former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, and suggested that the cache of weapons was possibly meant for red-shirt protesters.

Pheu Thai MP Jatuporn Promphan accused Sirichoke of giving Thaksin a bad name and using "idiotic" logic because certain items in the cache were several metres long.

"How can weapons of that size be used in a protest? What is Sirichoke's logic in coming up with such a story?" he asked.

Sirichoke hit back by saying Jatuporn was trying to avoid mentioning the many rocket-propelled grenades that went missing from the plane, but were later found to have been used by red-shirt protesters. "You are full of lies and distorting facts, while only bringing up details that are useful to yourself," he said.

Jatuporn hit back by saying Sirichoke's father was not a Thai, while Sirichoke accused Jatuporn of violating a female student studying in Ramkhamhaeng area. These out-of-subject arguments later prompted committee chairman Torphong Chaiyasarn to order a five-minute break.

In their closing statements, Jatuporn called on Sirichoke to dig deep into his own theory and take legal action against anyone involved in arms smuggling, while Sirichoke repeated his insistence that he had met Bout in prison to seek information about the seized cargo plane.

The House committee will next week come to a conclusion over its response to Sirichoke's meeting with Bout in prison.

-- The Nation 2010-09-09

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Police nab Chinese fraud suspect

By The Nation

The immigration police yesterday arrested a Chinese man suspected of being involved in a Bt600-million fraud case.

Chinese authorities claim Xin Yong Feng, 40, and his 10 accomplices used fake bonds to secure a loan to the tune of 115 million yuan (Bt525 million) from a public-listed company in China two years ago. Xin is the manager of a real-estate company in the mainland.

Instead of spending the loan on developing a real-estate project as earlier claimed, they divided the money and fled. In March this year, all suspects, except Xin, were caught in China.

China later alerted Thailand about Xin's relocation to Thailand, and an investigation by the Immigration Bureau revealed he was living in Bangkok under the false name of Somsak Thongwichai.

Xin has registered a company here and used many fake documents. He is now charged with forging official documents and illegal entry.

-- The Nation 2010-09-09

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GLOBAL WARMING

Thailand may be hotter by 4 degrees in next 3 decades

A chedi containing the ashes and remains of the ancestors of locals

in Tambon Rangnok in Phichits Sam Ngam district is reflected in

a flooded rice field yesterday evening.

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Thai FM Korn faces David vs Goliath Battle over banks' fees

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Deputy mayor arrested after bribery sting

By The Nation

A deputy mayor of Phayao province's Muang Phayao municipality has been arrested for allegedly demanding a Bt150,000 bribe in exchange for a C2-rank civil-service position, Public Sector Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC) secretary-general Pinyo Thongchai said yesterday.

After receiving a complaint, PACC officials found that the plaintiff, who had passed a civil-service test in Lampang but had not yet been officially appointed, was asked by Deputy Mayor Cherdsak Suktoi to pay Bt150,000, supposedly a reduction from the usual Bt100,000 per one C level. The plaintiff mortgaged his land to get Bt70,000, which was to be paid before the official appointment, and got from the PACC's sting-operation budget a further Bt80,000, which was to be paid afterwards.

PACC officials presented themselves to arrest the deputy mayor during the exchange and seized the money. But Cherdsak maintained it was not a bribe but a gift.

The case was forwarded to the Office of the National Anti-Corruption Commission and Cherdsak submitted his resignation.

-- The Nation 2010-09-09

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Polio emerging again in some countries

By The Nation

The World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday expressed concerns about the re-emergence of polio.

For a while, it was believed that polio had been eradicated in the face of effective vaccination.

Speaking at the 63rd session of the WHO Regional Committee for Southeast Asia and a meeting of health ministers of East and Southeast Asian countries under the WHO, the organisation's director-general Margaret Chan said yesterday that polio cases were being detected in India, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

"With migration, the disease has also spread to the border areas of Burma and Indonesia," she said.

Held in Bangkok, the regional meeting was attended by representatives from Bangladesh, Bhutan, North Korea, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Burma, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand and East Timor.

Chan advised governments not to lower their guards against polio.

Dr Rajesh Bhatia, an adviser to the WHO's Southeast Asia Regional Office (SEARO), said he was also concerned about the improper use of antibiotics.

"Improper use accounts for 50 per cent of drug-resistance cases," he said. "This is not a small issue."

He said drug companies had stopped investing in new antibiotics given that patients develop resistance to drugs just three or four years after they are launched.

"The investment on each drug is about US$500 million," or Bt15.5 billion, he said.

With such high investment costs, drug firms prefer to spend money on developing medications for non-communicable diseases such as hypertension and diabetes.

Dr Samlee Plianbangchang, who heads SEARO, called for careful prescription of medicines, proper training on communicable-disease control and an efficient monitoring system to detect drug resistance.

-- The Nation 2010-09-09

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FUGITIVE EX-PM

Thaksin tweets support for reconciliation

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THAI-SAUDI TIES

Saudis want promotion reviewed

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Thai politicians are still out of touch with reality

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THAI TALK

A gesture of peace without substance is just a truce

By Suthichai Yoon

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Kasit says Saudi has not further downgraded ties with Thailand

Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya told a press conference Wednesday that Saudi Arabia has not downgraded relations with Thailand to the lowest level as reported by several news websites.

Kasit said the Thai government was trying to restore ties with Middle East country.

-- The Nation 2010-09-09

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AUDITOR GENERAL

Jaruvan denies clinging on to position

By Kesinee Taengkhio

The Nation

The outgoing auditor-general, Khunying Jaruvan Maintaka, yesterday appeared in the Central Administrative Court to rebut the accusation she was trying to cling to her position despite reaching the mandatory retirement age of 65 in early July.

The court did not schedule its ruling after the completion of yesterday's hearing related to the dispute over the position of auditor-general.

In a public statement released yesterday, Jaruvan said she was not holding on to her office out of personal interest but to discharge her duties which could not be carried out by an acting office holder.

"I am carrying out the caretaker duties in order to protect the assets of the land at a time when the country is not peaceful," Jaruvan said in her statement.

"It is worrying that our Thailand is being treated mercilessly by people who have no good intentions towards the country. I intend to maintain the status of the Office of the Auditor-General as an organisation to protect the country's money and interest. I will remain loyal to the monarchy until my last breath," the statement said.

Jaruvan explained that she had repeatedly thought of stepping down but later came to the conclusion that doing so without a replacement who had full authority would do more harm than good to the country as well as the agency itself.

She said that a post-coup order by the Council for Democratic Reform had called on her to serve as the caretaker until her successor was appointed. She cited as examples the cases of former National Human Rights Commission chairman Saneh Chamarik and former Office of the Ombudsman chairman Thiradej Meepien who both served in a caretaker role until their successors were appointed after they had reached the age of 80.

Jaruvan said she had repeatedly requested the Senate in writing to select her successor but was told that the selection committee was waiting for the amended act of the state auditing to be approved by Parliament before they could select the new auditor-general.

The administrative litigation was initiated by a petition submitted by Senator Ruangkrai Leekitwattana via the Office of the Ombudsman.

Following yesterday's hearing, which lasted an hour, Jaruvan's lawyer Suwat Apaipakdi said the case was about the legal interpretation of pertinent provisions and not factual details.

Suwat is close to Sondhi Limthongkul, co-leader of the People's Alliance for Democracy, which is known collectively as the "yellow shirts". He has acted also as lawyer for yellow-shirt leaders in many legal cases.

The defence cited Jaruvan's testimony and four documents as evidence, he said, refusing to speculate on the verdict.

The lawyer said there were precedents of a number of office holders in independent organisations continuing to work beyond the mandatory retirement age during the transition period while awaiting the appointments of their successors.

The gist of the defence argument was to point out the limits of the job mandate granted to acting auditor-general Pisit Leelavachiropas and the jurisdiction of Jaruvan in her capacity as the auditor-general appointed under the Royal command.

-- The Nation 2010-09-09

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A bomb was discovered before it exploded at The Mall (Ngarmwongwarn branch) parking area Thur. night,authorities are checking CCTV tape /NATION

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Two bombs found and defused in Nonthaburi

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Extra Security at Parliament After Last Night's Attacks

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Pheu Thai poised for leadership change?

By The Nation

Pheu Thai Party leader Yongyuth Wichaidit on Thursday called an urgent meeting of his party's executive board, scheduled at 11.00 am amid intense speculation he might be stepping down.

Yongyuth has reportedly planned to tender his resignation to pave way for the election of a new party leader on September 14.

Former national police chief General Kowit Wattana is tipped to become the leader of the main opposition party.

Kowit is seen as a supporter of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra even though he was part of the junta in 2006.

But the party spokesman dismissed the speculation about Kowit as a groundless rumour.

-- The Nation 2010-09-09

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Bank of Thailand pushing for cuts In banks' service charges

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Thai stocks open up 6.85 pt, 0.74 pct

Thai composite stocks index (SET) opened on Thursday at 930.73, up 6.85 points, or 0.74 per cent.

Blue chip SET-50 index was at 640.18, up 5.00 points, or 0.79 per cent.

Top five active (value) stocks: KTB, ADVANC, PTTAR, CPF, TMB.

-- The Nation 2010-09-09

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Diesel salvage mission off Phuket resumes today

HTMS 'Rang' at the Phuket Aquarium Pier at Cape Panwa yesterday.

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