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• Fiscal budget outline, NE projects approved

  22/02/2012 : The cabinet on Wednesday has approved the 2013 fiscal budget framework with expenditure of 2.40 trillion baht, reports said.

• 29 projects costing B1.6bn approved

  22/02/2012 : The cabinet on Wednesday gave the green light for the implementation of 29 projects worth about 1.65 billion baht as proposed by provinces in the Northeast, acting government spokeswoman Thitima Chaisaeng said.

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• Court: Executive decrees constitutional

  22/02/2012 : The Constitution Court on Wednesday afternoon ruled that the two cabinet executive financial decrees challenged by opposition MPs and senators are constitutional.

• Decree ruling 'won't affect govt'

  22/02/2012 : The government is not required to resign if the two executive decrees are over-ruled by the Constitution Court, Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung said Wednesday.

• RID chief's appointment approved

  22/02/2012 : The cabinet on Wednesday approved the appointment of deputy permanent secretary for agriculture and cooperatives Lertviroj Kowattana as the new director-general of the Royal Irrigation Department, deputy government spokesman Anusorn Eiamsa-ard said.

• PAD, senators oppose charter change

  22/02/2012 : The People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) and a group of about 50 senators on Wednesday announced their opposition to the ongoing move by the government to amend Article 291 of the constitution to make way for the setting up of a new body to rewrite the "whole charter".

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  OMBUDSMAN

  PM urged to clarify hotel meet

  22/02/2012 : The Office of the Ombudsman has decided that Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's decision to skip a parliamentary session for a private meeting with a group of business people poses concerns about her ethics.

• Panel seeks nod for mega-project plans

  22/02/2012 : A joint public and private committee plans to seek cabinet approval for mega-projects worth more than 600 billion baht to develop the Northeast during the mobile cabinet meeting today.

• POLITICS

  TRC chairman urges delay in rewrite debate

  22/02/2012 : The chairman of the Truth for Reconciliation Commission yesterday urged the parliament speaker to delay tomorrow's debate on three draft constitution amendments.

• Chalerm: Isan to be drug-free area

  21/02/2012 : The government has set a new target, to make 20 provinces in the Northeast drug-free areas, begining with Udon Thani, Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung said on Tuesday.

• Two-day joint charter sitting starts Thursday

  21/02/2012 : Government and senate whips have agreed to a joint debate on three draft charter amendments on Thursday and Friday, government chief whip Udomdet Rattanasathian said on Tuesday.

• Thaksin: No anti-coup war room

  21/02/2012 : Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has rejected as groundless a media report that he plans to set up an anti-coup war room by June, Thaksin's legal advisor Noppadon Pattama said on Tuesday.

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