PRESS DIGEST - Thai newspapers June 16

BANGKOK, June 16 (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

- The Democrat party will file a censure motion against Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej and other cabinet members tomorrow (BANGKOK POST).

- A women's network plans to submit documents it says relate to alleged acts of fraud and bribery involving Wallop Ploytubtim to the National Counter Corruption Commission (NCCC) (BANGKOK POST)

- Bangkok Governor Apirak Kosayodhin plans to push for the listing of the old Rattanakosin area in Bangkok as a World Heritage Site, like the old city of Luang Prabang in Laos (BANGKOK POST)

- Farmers may be smiling now at the higher price for rice, but there are several "time bombs" lurking in the background from flawed government policy, according to a coalition of farmers, academics and activists (THE NATION)

- Farmers in Tak, Phitsanulok and Angthong were left disappointed yesterday when the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives was unable to launch the 35 billion baht rice-pledging scheme as scheduled due to lack of preparation (THE NATION)

- Consumer goods manufacturers have been called to a meeting with the Internal Trade Department this week to be asked to maintain prices to avoid furthering inflation (THE NATION)

BUSINESS

- There's no point in pretending otherwise. Even the deputy finance minister, as experienced a businessman as any in the current cabinet, would think twice before starting a new investment in today's uncertain environment (BANGKOK POST)

- IRPC IRPC.BK, the country's biggest integrated petrochemical producer, plans to start building an eight-billion-baht natural gas power plant this year to start operating in 2010 (BANGKOK POST)

- A public opinion survey by the National Institute of Development Administration (Nida) found 60 percent of respondents disagreed with a move to amend the Constitution, compared to 20 percent who said they supported a rewrite, the university's rector said yesterday (THE NATION)

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