Visitors can also check out a Thai gold shop from bygone days, take a seat in a dusty, blue-vinyl dentist's chair and admire a replica of an elementary school classroom.
The royalist forces holding out along the Thai border will be targeted too.
Other boatloads of Rohingya have allegedly been set adrift after being towed out to sea by Thai authorities.
An expansionary budget is being prepared, to help the Thai economy ride out the political storm.
In Thailand, where the Crisis began, "the economy hasn't really come around and won't until banks and property companies get sorted out, " says a Thai mergers and acquisitions expert.
The government seized 56 other finance companies in 1997 but left Phatra Thanakit alone, and a year later cajoled Thai Farmers into buying out its minority shareholders.
According to the sources, PWC took pains to point out that its conclusions about Krung Thai Bank's credit and other practices were necessarily tentative because of the limited sample. (Citing confidentiality issues, PWC declined to speak to Asiaweek about the report.) The auditors recommended a detailed examination of 100 more randomly selected accounts, a suggestion that Mechai and his board approved in July.
And the opposition Thaksinites in the Puea Thai party are sitting this one out.
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Government spokesman Akapol Sorasuchart points out that Tarrin did not name Sirin to Krung Thai.
The labor union at Thai Airways International PCL, meanwhile, singled out "Battle of the Angels" for special criticism, saying it tarnishes the reputation of flight attendants and is a far cry from day-to-day life in the skies.
The Thai government has not indicated any willingness to reach out to him or offer him immunity.
And though landmarks such as the central market clock tower may help you orientate yourself somewhat, chances are a map of your exact wanderings after a day out at Chatuchak would resemble most closely a plate of pad thai noodles.
Back then, says Mr Thiraphong of Thai Union Frozen, his refusal to borrow and branch out was considered a liability.
"It is deeply regrettable that the Thai authorities have yielded to political pressure from outside and carried out this illegal extradition, " Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
There have been influxes of Rohingya before and in 2009 the Thai government was heavily criticised for its policy of towing boats back out to sea.
The refugees arrived by boat on the Thai shore, and Thai police said many had severe burns from a fire that broke out on board their craft after it left neighboring Myanmar, also known as Burma.
MUFG, which has an existing entity in Thailand, is trying to figure out how to shut that entity and roll outstanding loans into Ayudhya because under Thai law, banks can have only one presence in the country.
Macdonald points out that all work on the island has been under the supervision of a Thai forestry worker and an environmentalist, not to mention a botanist brought from Britain to oversee replanting of the native species.
Enjoy the relaxed, open-air atmosphere of a 1920s Thai home at the Issaya Siamese Club, where local celebrity chef Ian Kittichai turns out dishes seasoned with herbs grown in the house garden, such as red chilli-glazed seabass (pla aob prik) and jasmine flower flan (kanom dok mali).
And as NPR's Doualy Xaykaothao reports from Bangkok, U.S. and Thai officials thought they had permission to send a C-130 into Myanmar, but that turned out not to be the case.
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