Thai PM poised to step aside as finance chief: Report

BANGKOK: Thailand’s Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin (pic) will relinquish his role as finance minister, according to a local media report, a change that may ease tension with the central bank over monetary policy.

The former property tycoon may appoint Pichai Chunhavajira as the new finance minister, Thai language newspaper Krungthep Turakij reported Wednesday (March 13), without saying where it got the information.