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  Cambodia slams Thailand over post-coup worker exodus

  18 Jun 2014 : Cambodia has accused Thailand's new military rulers of fomenting an exodus of migrant workers which it claimed had caused at least eight deaths and economic hardship for both countries.
  
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  Court annuls FRA tax dodge convictions

  18 Jun 2014 : The Appeal Court yesterday overturned negligence and malfeasance convictions against the heads of a now-defunct asset liquidation panel set up to sell bad assets after the 1997 financial crisis.
  

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  SET up 1.60 points at opening

  18 Jun 2014 : Thai stocks opened up 0.11% at the start of trade this morning.
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  Prayuth insists on B40 lottery tickets

  18 Jun 2014 : Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha, chief of the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO), wants government lottery tickets to be sold fairly at their proper price of 40 baht each, or 80 baht per pair, instead of the 100-110 baht per pair now being charged by vendors.

• NCPO adds 28 projects to checklist

  18 Jun 2014 : The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) has ordered a review of 28 more projects totalling 40 billion baht to ensure their transparency, cost-effectiveness and necessity.
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  Education

  Tablets swapped for ‘smart classrooms’

  18 Jun 2014 : The Office of the Basic Education Commission (Obec) has confirmed plans to replace the One Tablet per Child scheme with "smart classrooms" equipped with interactive computer software in every school.
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  All eyes on defence spending

  18 Jun 2014 : The National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) is likely to face public scrutiny when the proposed 2015 defence budget is unveiled later next month.
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  Military orders van service rejig

  17 Jun 2014 : The military junta and traffic police on Tuesday outlined a new three-phase plan to reorganise queues and boarding of public vans around the busy Victory Monument area.
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  Fishermen rally against mud dump

  17 Jun 2014 : SURAT THANI - About 1,000 coastal fishermen and local officials held the first significant protest since the May 22 coup on Tuesday, to demand that a ferry firm based in Don Sak district immediately halt dumping mud into the sea.
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  New public-private committee set up

  17 Jun 2014 : The military has set up a joint public-private committee to solve economic problems.
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  Thailand, Cambodia to quash 'rumours' after worker exodus

  17 Jun 2014 : Thailand and Cambodia agreed on Tuesday to quash "rumours" of a crackdown on illegal migrant workers by the junta following the exodus of nearly 180,000 Cambodian labourers.
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  Senior MOF official in tea money bust

  17 Jun 2014 : An executive of the state-owned Marketing Organisation for Farmers (MOF) has been arrested in a corruption sting for allegedly extorting 1.5 million baht from a businessman.