Tuesday 9 April 2002
Won't merge: Bangkok Metropolitan Bank workers, whose jobs are threatened by the forced merger of the bank with another, hold a banner: "Ayudhya [old Thai capitol lost to Burmese] fell because of Thais, Bangkok Metropolitan falls because of human [error]."
Bangkok Metropolitan is the latest in a long list of banks forced into a government-ordered merger since the 1997 economic crisis.
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