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        "msgid": "thai-cabinet-cut-their-pay-1447893297",
        "date": "1997-12-17 00:00:00",
        "title": "Thai cabinet cut their pay",
        "author": null,
        "source": "DPA",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Thai cabinet cut their pay BANGKOK (DPA): The Thai cabinet pushed through a 20 percent cut in monthly salaries for government ministers and legislators as an austerity measure, a senior minister said yesterday. \"We have decided to cut the salaries for ministers, their assistants and all government members of parliament,\" said Thai Interior Minister Sanan Kachaornprasart. The cabinet has not yet decided whether it will cut salaries for opposition MPs.",
        "content": "<p>Thai cabinet cut their pay<\/p>\n<p>BANGKOK (DPA): The Thai cabinet pushed through a 20 percent<br>\ncut in monthly salaries for government ministers and legislators<br>\nas an austerity measure, a senior minister said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\"We have decided to cut the salaries for ministers, their<br>\nassistants and all government members of parliament,\" said Thai<br>\nInterior Minister Sanan Kachaornprasart. The cabinet has not yet<br>\ndecided whether it will cut salaries for opposition MPs.<\/p>\n<p>The salary cuts, which will be implemented for one year<br>\nstarting on Dec. 1, 1997, are expected to save the government<br>\nseveral million baht a month.<\/p>\n<p>Thailand has cut its budget for the fiscal year 1997 and 1998<br>\nthree times in recent months to meet the tough requirements<br>\nplaced on a US$17.2 billion rescue package brokered by the<br>\nInternational Monetary Fund in August.<\/p>",
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