Thailand’s new economic team takes charge


King Maha Vajiralongkorn sworn in Predee (pic) and Supattanapong Punmeechaow, a former senior executive of PTT Pcl, who was named a deputy prime minister and is in charge of the Energy Ministry, at a ceremony in Bangkok yesterday.

BANGKOK: Former banker Predee Daochai was inaugurated as Thailand’s new finance minister in Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha’s revamped Cabinet that’s tasked to lead the country out of its worst ever economic crisis amid mounting anti-government protests.

King Maha Vajiralongkorn sworn in Predee and Supattanapong Punmeechaow, a former senior executive of PTT Pcl, who was named a deputy prime minister and is in charge of the Energy Ministry, at a ceremony in Bangkok yesterday.

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