BANGKOK: Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra officially appointed his new Cabinet yesterday, retaining his finance minister but bringing in a trade expert to take over the foreign ministry.
Somkid Jatusripitak retains the finance portfolio, a job he was appointed to when Thaksin first took office in 2001 and which he held for most of the prime minister's first administration. Somkid will concurrently hold a deputy prime minister's post in charge of finance.
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