400,000 Thai civil servants to benefit from major reform:
Some 400,000 Thai civil servants, and the country, will benefit from major bureaucratic reforms in which the existing rank system, used by permanent government officials, will be scrapped by the Office of the Civil Service Commission, Secretary-General Preecha Vajrabhaya said Tuesday.
Thailand wants to close its Burmese refugee camps and repatriate the more than 100,000 residents.