Thai House Speaker Chai Chidchob announced Tuesday night to postpone the parliamentary meeting's vote on Chinese-Thai joint-investment framework of high- speed train project to next Monday. Chai cited insufficient quorum as the reason for the postponement saying a lot of MPs went to flood areas to help their suffering people. The discussion was protracted for eight hours as the opposition parties' MPs questioned transparency of the project as well as blamed inadequate details and documents. The parliament is scheduled to pass its resolution on the framework of the joint-investment project on Oct. 26, according to the House Speaker. Although the framework of the 480 billion-baht (15.4 billion U. S. dollars) joint-investment project was already approved by the cabinet on September 7, article 190 of Thailand's current constitution requires that any agreement to be made with other countries shall first gain approval from the National Assembly. 