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The Cabinet yesterday approved a 115-billion-baht supplementary budget for urgent economic stimulus measures, aiming mainly at lessening economic hardship and encouraging the spending among low-income earners.
The supplementary budget will be allocated to finance 18 projects among concerned ministries as the finer details of the budget will be submitted to the Cabinet on January 20 for consideration, before being forward to the Parliament for approval on January 28.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said after the Cabinet meeting that the disbursement of the mid-year fiscal budget is expected to start in March …

The new government of Thailand has officially been established after His Majesty the King yesterday gave a royal endorsement for the country’s 59th government which had been proposed by Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.
Abhisit’s Democrat Party took 18 seats in the 36-seat Cabinet, including the ministers of defence, foreign affairs and finance. The rest of the seats are four from Chart Thai Pattana Party, five from Friends of Newin Group, four from Puea Pandin Party, two from Ruam Jai Thai Chart Pattana Party, one from Social Action Party and two from …