PRESS DIGEST - Thai newspapers - Nov 12

BANGKOK, Nov 12 (Reuters) - These are some of the leading stories in Thai newspapers on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

TOP STORIES

- The Thai government will review its cooperation with Cambodia after Phnom Penh refused to give up fugitive former leader Thaksin Shinawatra (BANGKOK POST)

- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen begged Thais to understand he needed Thaksin's advice to pull his country out of poverty (THE NATION)

- Cambodian soldiers have been invited to join a sports day the Thai army is organising in a border province by Preah Vihear temple today in a bid to ease the increasingly tense ties between the two countries (BANGKOK POST)

- The Thai business community remains hopeful the Thai-Cambodian border will not be shut, as the loss of trade would be hugely damaging to both sides (THE NATION)

BUSINESS

- Lending by state-owned banks has exceeded target and this is expected to spur 2009 economic growth by 0.4 percentage point, Deputy Finance Minister Pradit Pataraprasit said (THE NATION)

- A recovery in export orders should lift industrial sector growth to between 4.5 percent and 5.5 percent next year, after a 5.9 percent slide this year, says the Industry Ministry (BANGKOK POST)