BANGKOK, Nov 17 (TNA) – Thailand’s Cabinet is considering options to help speed the release of a Thai national, an engineer detained in Cambodia on spy charges, and the government is seeking permission from Cambodian authorities to meet the detainee in jail.Acting Thai government spokesman Panitan Watanayagorn said the Cabinet will also evaluate Thailand’s economic cooperation projects with Cambodia at its weekly meeting Tuesday, as proposed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs because the country may now be at a disadvantage as ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra in now economic adviser to the Cambodian government.
The 31-year-old Siwarak Chothipong, an employee at the Cambodia Air Traffic Service (CATS), who was arrested last week after being accused of giving Mr Thaksin’s flight schedule to the first secretary at the Thai embassy in Phnom Penh.
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