31 - 39 of 39 results for "politicians"

  1. 31. learning | 14 Dec 2010

    Pay increases for lawmakers under attack

    Easy English news

    By Terry Fredrickson

    » Proposed pay increases for lawmakers are generating strong protests. Politicians don’t work hard enough to deserve a pay rise, people say.

  2. 32. learning | 23 Apr 2012

    Thailand's rice sector doomed?

    About agriculture

    By Jon Fernquest

    » Thai rice sector may be heading towards corruption-plagued government-to government trading, business given to companies that do business with the politicians in power, many exporters may be wiped out.

  3. 33. news | 14 May 2013

    Local govt bodies, P-Move rally against govt

    By Online Reporters

    » Neither local government politicians nor the People's Movement for a Just Society (P-Move) were happy with the vague answers they received from the government after submitting their demands on Tuesday.

  4. 34. news | 14 May 2013

    Local govt officials press demands

    By Pradit Ruangdit

    » Local government politicians submitted a list of demands to the government on Tuesday, including an increase in local government budget allocations, promising to return to Government House in two weeks if their needs ar...

  5. 35. news | 17 Apr 2013

    Margaret Thatcher funeral: Live Report

    By AFP

    » 1158 GMT: We are winding up our live report now, after a morning in which Britain said goodbye to one of its most contentious politicians, former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, at a ceremonial funeral.

  6. 36. news | 21 Mar 2013

    Cyprus sets up investment fund as part of bailout package

    By AFP

    » Cyprus politicians Thursday agreed to set up an investment fund as part of a Plan B to secure a bailout deal with eurozone lenders, while ruling out a tax on bank deposits that sank an earlier deal.

  7. 37. learning | 20 Dec 2010

    Public-private partnership law and corruption

    About government

    By Jon Fernquest

    » Corrupt politicians soon dreamed up ways to circumvent the original public-private partnership (PPP) law of 1992. Can a new rewrite of the law close all the loopholes in the law used for corruption?

  8. 38. news | 21 Mar 2013

    Cyprus banks face meltdown as ECB ready to pull plug

    By AFP

    » The European Central Bank warned Thursday it was ready to pull the plug on emergency funding for Cyprus banks as the island's politicians scrambled to raise billions of euros to head off financial meltdown.

  9. 39. opinion | 02 Apr 2013

    Nine laws for a better Thailand

    COMMENTARY

    By Songkran Grachangnetara, Newspaper section: News

    » Before we invest 2 trillion baht in high-speed rail, we must first be able to have high-speed traffic, high-speed tax refunds, high-speed immigration queues ... and last but not least, high-speed justice. Parliament will...

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