Under-pressure Thai PM reveals reshuffled cabinet
Under-pressure Thai premier Samak Sundaravej revealed his reshuffled cabinet Saturday in the wake of a series of damaging legal defeats and resignations for his battered six-month-old government.
Samak introduced two new faces and welcomed former minister Chiya Sasomsub back into the fold less than a month after being forced out of government in a legal ruling.
Chiya, kicked out of government on July 9 when the Constitutional Court ruled he had illegally concealed his wife's assets upon taking up his post as health minister, returns as commerce minister.
Former national police chief Kowit Wattana is made interior minister and a deputy prime minister, while deputy parliamentary spokesman Somsak Kietsuranond becomes culture minister.
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