Thai PM announces strategies to fight corruption

BANGKOK, May 18 (TNA) - Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has announced anti-corruption strategies and has opened a hotline to receive corruption complaints. Yingluck briefed her government's anti-corruption strategies to Cabinet members and representatives of government offices at the central government complex, emphasizing on proactive and effective anti-graft attempts. The prime minister also opened a new official hotline, 1206, to receive corruption tip-offs and complaints and promised her administration will amend relevant laws to support the anti-corruption strategies. The Pheu Thai premier urged government offices and local communities to start to fight against corruption within their own agencies first, as advised by His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, warning that corrupt personnel will be harshly punished. (TNA)