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About 50 MPs of the Puea Thai Party skipped the parliament meeting, travelled to Sa Kaew's Aranyaprathet district and crossed the border into Cambodia on Friday to visit their boss Thaksin Shinawatra in Siem Reap.

The MPs, led by Chiang Mai MP Surapong Towichakchaikul, arrived at Aranyaprathet in eight vans.

Mr Surapong said in a telephone interview that he and fellow Puea Thai MPs had arrived in Cambodia and would have a dinner with Thaksin at a hotel in Siem Reap and Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen would also join them.

Apart from visiting Thaksin on behalf of the people, the MPs would also on a field trip to see cross-border trade between the two countries, he said.

On the Democrat Party's allegation that they had failed to perform their duty in parliament in violation of the charter, Mr Surapong said he and the other Puea Thai MPs had taken business leave as allowed by parliament regulations.

13/11/09
Bangkok Post