TOKYO – President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo thanked Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday for his government’s donation of eight fighter planes that will be delivered sometime in August and September this year.
In her bilateral meeting with the Thai prime minister at the Imperial Hotel here, the President said Thaksin could personally bring four of the eight fighter planes to the Philippines in August. The remaining four aircraft are slated for delivery in September.
The Thai leader’s delivery of the planes will also be an opportunity for him to lecture on what she dubbed as "Thaksinomics," the President added.(see
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