PRESS DIGEST - Thai newspapers Feb 18

BANGKOK, Feb 18 (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

- Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej will deliver his coalition government's policy address to Parliament on Monday as part of a three-day debate (THE NATION)

- Historians will hold a discussion in Thai and English to counter what they call Samak's distortion of the facts over the October 6, 1976 student massacre (THE NATION)

- Samak threatened to retaliate against "invisible hands" he said were trying to destroy his People Power Party (THE NATION)

- The risk of being infected by mosquito-borne dengue fever, which can be fatal, runs high this year, health officials warn (THE NATIION)

- The World Health Organisation mission to Thailand has added its support to the use of flexibilities in the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights agreements to improve access to essential medicines (BANGKOK POST)

BUSINESS

- Samak will need about six years to accomplish his plan to develop nine pass transit lines covering about 300 km (187 mile) for greater Bangkok, officials at the Transport Ministry said (BANGKOK POST)