1. Rail workers rally in London in protest about privatisation plans. 2. Bangchak Petroleum offers another classic case of a well-laid privatisation plan gone awry. 3. Earlier Deputy Prime Minister Supachai Panitchpakdi urged Egat executives to clear any misunderstandings over the privatisation plan. 4. Finance Minister Tarrin Nimmanahaeminda said earlier the privatisation plans should be completed around the end of this month. 5. Hodge said his government was considering a privatisation plan which should be presented to Thailand in July. 6. In a move apparently designed to promote a compromise with the employees, the newly appointed board recently decided to adjust the privatisation plan for Egat. 7. Supachai said the committee also agreed to set up a new agency to monitor the implementation of the privatisation plan. 8. The commercialisation of Don Muang Airport is one step in its privatisation plan to allow private investors to establish businesses there. 9. The government has indeed committed a public relations blunder by not publicising its privatisation plan before it inked the letter of intent with the IMF. 10. The government also ordered the BMTA to immediately prepare its privatisation plans for submission to the Finance Ministry. |
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