Bangkok – A Thai hospital needs 6,200 dollars in additional donations to repatriate a comatose German man they have been treating gratis for the past 10 months, hospital sources said Monday.
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Floods have forced officials in Lampang province to designate more districts as disaster zones after heavy downpours, while many other provinces in the North and Northeast have also been severely affected by heavy rain.
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The Bangkok Post quotes PAD leader Sondhi L as stating:
When Thaksin was running the government he was the centre of corruption, but in the Abhisit administration corruption had spread to to all ministries, he said.
“I believe there is more corruption now than during the Thaksin administration,” Mr Sondhi said.
BP: Can hardly disagree because back in 2008 BP blogged that corruption was more centralized under Thaksin because power was centralized under Thaksin. Now, with a weaker PM and more power for the factions, more people have fingers in the pie.
So what was the coup about again? Will we have calls that another coup is necessary?
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The Transport Ministry will submit more information on the proposal to lease 4,000 natural-gas-powered (CNG) buses for the Bangkok Metropolitan Transit Authority (BMTA) to the Cabinet, which will consider the project in the next two months.
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Former Army chief General Sonthi Boonyarattaglin, who led the September 19, 2006 coup that toppled the Thaksin regime, has admitted that the failure of the post-coup government to continue the “Thaksin economic model” had polarised the country.
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A shortage of eggs and skyrocketing prices has forced the government to allow more layer chickens to be imported.
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Last week, two leaders each separately took their own big steps to crowdsourcing – tapping into public intelligence – to find a way out of the mess they were in.
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Recently, Apple changed the iTunes store for Thai users and added Podcasts to the App store and iTunesU. This was long overdue. A podcast is a video or audio file sent out by its creator at intervals. It can be played on a computer or a suitable player, such as an iPod or iPhone.
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Cabinet yesterday extended the state of emergency in the deep South for another three months.
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Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva says the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Co-operatives should make green loans account for 25% of its portfolio to promote environmental protection.
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