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The ‘government’ has now decided to take all sorts of actions to take care of the high rate of the baht (http://www.bangkokpost.com/Business/18Jul2007_biz35.php) as experts point out the damage it is doing to their livelihoods (http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/18Jul2007_news01.php). A new foreign debt ceiling is possible (http://etna.mcot.net/query.php?nid=30564), as is scrapping the reserve rule (http://etna.mcot.net/query.php?nid=30565), cutting the repo rate (http://etna.mcot.net/query.php?nid=30557) and industrial structure reform (http://etna.mcot.net/query.php?nid=30560).
Huge new powers for the junta come into force today as a massive system of CCTVs is to be opened across
The Democrat Governor of Bangkok Apirak Kosalyodhin, meanwhile, is trying to suppress information about his alleged corruption in the Steyr Co Fire Truck affair (http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/18Jul2007_news06.php).
I have published several new reviews and articles. At Suite 101, I have published “Shang: The First Dynasty of China” (http://chinese-history.suite101.com/article.cfm/shang), “Labour Migration” (http://sasianchineseaffairs.suite101.com/article.cfm/labour_migration), “The Precarious Baht” (http://thailand.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_precarious_baht) and “Australia Storms Back” (http://asian-football.suite101.com/article.cfm/australia_storms_back). New reviews published at Bokideas, meanwhile, are McCarthy, Cormac, No Country for Old Men (http://www.bookideas.com/reviews/index.cfm?fuseaction=displayReview&id=3844), Taylor, G.P., Wormwood (http://www.bookideas.com/reviews/index.cfm?fuseaction=displayReview&id=3845) and Hal Duncan’s Ink: The Book of All Hours 2 (http://www.bookideas.com/reviews/index.cfm?fuseaction=displayReview&id=3846).
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