Economic review year-end 2008

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   Editor: Chiratas Nivatpumin
   Co-ordination: Tony McAuley,
    Taksina Isarabhakdi
   Copy editing: Eric Baker,
    Piers Evans, Taksina
    Isarabhakdi, Tony McAuley
   Cover and Graphics:
    Sataporn Kawewong
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    Veman lttihiranwong

HEALTH CARE

Same cure, different ills
Pongsak Viddayakorn, chief of the country's largest hospital chain, is feeling only slightly dispirited over the group's prospects although many health-care analysts are worrying about the dire consequences of the world financial crisis, which are expected to be fully apparent in 2009.