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Christmas has yet to come but the spirit of giving is in the air after the final election results confirmed a resounding victory for the Pheu Thai Party to lead Thailand's next coalition government.
In the next few months, under Pheu Thai's proposed policies, nearly one million schoolchildren in Thailand will get a free tablet PC for reading electronic books (hopefully they won't spend all their time on them playing online games).
Bachelor degree graduates will likely receive a starting salary of 15,000 baht, while labourers can afford to smile, as the party has promised to adjust the daily minimum wage to 300 baht nationwide. Pheu Thai has also promised to implement a high-speed rail network, including a route from Bangkok to Chiang Mai, the home province of prime minister-in-waiting Yingluck Shinawatra and her brother, Thaksin.
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Red-shirt supporters have expressed dismay over ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's call for them to set aside their anger and frustration over social and legal injustices for the sake of national reconciliation.
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Discussion 1 : 14/07/2011 at 10:06 AM1
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Unsustainable populist policies, we've seen enough in the TRT administration, here we go again. Some people just never learn, no wonder we can't move forward at all.
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