BANGKOK: Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra invited foreign reporters to join his Cabinet for a chicken lunch yesterday as he tried to calm public fears after an outbreak of poultry cholera.
“Come and join us. Are you scared?” Thaksin called out, as the Cabinet sat down in the dining room of Government House to a lunch of Hainanese chicken rice, roast chicken and spicy chicken soup as well as raw salmon and octopus.
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