1.the government is determined to push through economic measures in the face of mounting pressure from public interest groups which contend they will benefit foreign investors.
2.Water supplies to large sections of the inner city were cut off when a main cracked at the Lumpini pumping station on Ratchadamri road on Sunday night
3.Cambodia arch-rival coalition partners yesterday unveiled a government pact that sees two key ministries shared but leaves Hun Sen firmly in charge of holding the purse strings.
4. A northeastern provincial governor implicated in an alleged scam involving the Interior minister's personal driver yesterday denied all the allegations.
5.Bangkok Expressway Co., Ltd. is demanding daily compensation of four million baht from the state for delaying the opening of the Chaeng Wattana-Rangsit and Asoke-Ramkhamhaeng expressways.
6.An outspoken doctor yesterday questioned the govemment commitment to tackling corruption in the Public Health Ministry
7.Concerned agencies have been urged to take tough legal action against factories and communities found releasing untreated waste into the Lam Takhong Reservoir
8.A new Education Ministry student admission policy has been attacked by academics and students who say it will allow schools to demand tea money from parents in exchange for school seats
9.A man was re-captured 12 years after he jumped bail on counterfeit charge.
10. Asia is at the centre of a world tuberculosis epidemic which is killing up to three million people a year, a World Health Organization statement released yesterday said.
11.Chinese president Jiang Zemin held a long-planned informal summit with Boris Yelsin yesterday but the venue was unexpected a Moscow hospital where the Russian leader is being treated for pneumonia
12.Incoming House Speaker Bob Livingston predicted on Sunday the US House of Representatives would need only a couple of hours to debated and vote on the possible impeachment of President Bill Clinton