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Royal Flora Ratchaphruek opens next week

HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn will open the "Royal Flora Ratchaphruek 2006" in Chiang Mai's Muang district next Wednesday, Government Spokesman Yongyuth Maiyarap said Tuesday.

PM to Vietnam on Thursday

Greater bilateral investment and preventing avian influenza will top the agenda when Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont meets the Vietnamese premier Thursday.

About 5,000 aliens' names illegally added : DSI

Several government officials in Chiang Mai's Mae Taeng district have illegally put more than 5,000 aliens' names on local household registrations.


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		MUSICAL GENIUS King's songs given a new treatment by Austrian violinist, local pianist It is difficult to characterise His Majesty the King's musical compositions, but the latest attempt to combine classical and jazz elements through orchestration with the violin solo by Austrian-born Wolfgang David, opens a new horizon for fresh appreciation of the King's genius.
		SURVEY OF INMATES Bid to find the wrongly imprisoned But Corrections boss convinced most guilty of their crimes

STATE ENTERPRISES
Economists push board reforms
Say politicians should not be members

		SFIs may have to merge
		NTC may be subject to govt intervention
		Buy-out deals

NATIONWIDE FLOODING
Bangkok water level may be high for weeks, officials say
But Irrigation Dept says remedial moves are working

		Vaccine plant planned at Mahidol campus
		Chiang Mai University involved in tiny nanobot's human voyage
		Call to pay for kids' kidney care

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GOLF
KOREAN WINS BY 5
Hee-Won too good in the Bangkok heat

		Old stars may be recalled

EDITORIAL
No reconciliation without justice
Failure to punish corrupt politicians will erode the Surayud government's credibility and jeopardise reform

		Conflict of interest in the bastion of its opponents
		The tyranny of US cotton subsidies
		Dousing the fires in southern Thailand

The Nation Poll

New poll posted on Thursday

Is the Thai government right to protest Cambodia's appointment of Thaksin as its economic adviser by recalling Thai ambassador and suspending all cooperations?