PRESS DIGEST - Thai newspapers - March 31

BANGKOK, March 31 (Reuters) - These are some of the leading stories in Thai newspapers on Monday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

TOP STORIES

- Four additional restricted businesses - rental, operations leasing, financial leasing and factoring - will be made more open to foreign ownership this week (THE NATION)

- A brand new tool to help the world's leading greenhouse gas emitters cut their emission rates is high on the agenda of a five-day climate change forum which starts in Bangkok (BANGKOK POST)

- The Assets Examination Committee will rule on indicting former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra over alleged irregularities involving the one-billion baht additional soft loan extended to Burma (THE NATION)

- Military-style camouflage clothing is now a fashion taboo, the Defence Council has decided (BANGKOK POST)

- The telecom regulator has moved to protect cellular users from unsolicited calls that do not show the caller's phone number (THE NATION)

BUSINESS

- The Bank of Thailand will consider rising commodities prices, a declining global economic outlook and higher public spending as key factors in its next revision of economic forecasts, said Amara Sriphayak, senior director for the Bank of Thailand's Domestic Economy Department (BANGKOK POST)