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	This must be the most extravagant government ever, given that our country still belongs to the developing world.</div>
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	There is no report that, as a result of these trips, the PM has sold a single grain of rice &ndash; which we have in stock to the point of brimming.</div>
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	Are these foreign trips worth the expense in any way?</div>
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	Vint Chavala</div>
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	Lamphun</div>

What value are the PM's jaunts?

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