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Last Friday the Securities and Exchange Commission fined Thaksin's son Panthongtae $150,000 for not disclosing changes in his Shin holdings dating back to 2001. The authorities say the Prime Minister has broken no law, but the controversy over the Shin deal refuses to die, and Bangkok has been...
KORN CHATIKAVANIJ Deputy secretary-general of the opposition Democrat Party, which is boycotting the April election The Thaksin administration has used the constitution to create a very strong government, but has undermined the counterbalance that was designed to be in place by interfering in the appointments and running of practically...
It helps too that he has powerful backers in Washington. A protégé of Vice President Dick Cheney, Khalilzad speaks frequently to Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. "He certainly has a freedom of action that others do not," says a U.S. diplomat involved in Middle East issues. During...
Senate Republicans have drafted a new bill to address concerns surrounding President Bush's warrantless eavesdropping on Americans, but a copy of the legislation, obtained by TIME, shows it is not likely to end the controversy anytime soon. That's because even as the bill would impose some tough new...
Similarly, the bill papers over the central power struggle under way between Congress and the White House. President Bush's advisors have repeatedly argued that when Congress authorizes the use of military force, the President is above the law when acting as Commander in Chief. Other than the Constitution, they...