Friday, January 22, 2010

Ex-Thai PM planning to cede vacation home

Fri, Jan 22, 2010
The Nation/Asia News Network


Ex-PM planning to cede vacation home 'so it can be turned into a museum or a foundation.'
Privy Councillor General Surayud Chulanont has offered to give up his vacation home located within the Khao Yai Thiang forest reserve in the next day or two after the Royal Forest Department ordered that the premises be vacated within 30 days, a source said yesterday.
Surayud, who served as prime minister after the September 2006 coup, and his wife Colonel Khunying Jitravadi said they were ready to comply with the order issued by the department's director general, Somchai Piensathaporn, right away.
Somchai's order said Surayud was not qualified to own the land.
The source said that the ex-premier was planning to give his vacation home over to the Forest Department so it can be turned into a museum or a foundation.

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