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Thai PM Paetongtarn sticks to past policies on handouts and projects, signalling continuity
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Ms Paetongtarn Shinawatra's speech laid out an economics-heavy agenda of a government keen to burnish its credentials on bread-and-butter issues.
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BANGKOK – Continuity was a key theme when Thailand’s new prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra on Sept 12 presented her government’s policy proposals before Parliament.
In an hour-long speech, she outlined priorities that hewed closely to those of her predecessor Srettha Thavisin, who was booted out by a Constitutional Court ruling on Aug 14.
