IN BRIEF
CNS picks 100 members for CDA
The Council for National Security has appointed 100 members for the Constitution Drafting Assembly from the list of 200 nominees, CNS chairman General Sonthi Boonyaratglin said yesterday.
The CDA list will be submitted for royal endorsement today, he said.
The National People's Assembly recently selected the 200 CDA candidates among themselves amid allegations of vote-buying and string-pulling by the CNS.
The CDA will assign 25 people to the Constitution Drafting Committee. They will be joined by 10 others to be chosen on the advice of the CNS chairman. - The Nation.
Debt relief : Civic group seeks govt help
The Rak Ban Muang group yesterday asked the National Legislative Assembly's finance committee to help its members clear their debts, claiming that the government machinery supports creditors.
Group leader Viphat Khumwanich told NLA member Sangsit Piriyarangsan, who belongs to the committee on monetary, financial and banking affairs, that his people were suffering under the debt recovery practices of the public and private sectors.
Viphat said commercial banks had hiked their interest rates drastically. The group's members started off with debts of Bt2 million but after 10 years found themselves owing Bt40 million in principal and interest, indicating that the banks took advantage of them. - The Nation.
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