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...buddhist-dominated Thailand, people understand the concept of a long cycle of suffering before salvation. Yet even the faithful must be tiring of the farcical merry-go-round of Thai politics. On Dec. 2, a Thai court dissolved the People Power Party (PPP) because of electoral fraud, ending Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat's tenure as the country's third premier in 2008. After more than two years in political crisis, Thailand is back to square...
BACK FROM THE BRINK As months of antigovernment protests culminated in the occupation of two Bangkok airports (above), a court dissolved Thailand's ruling party, finding its members guilty of election fraud. The protesters dispersed, flights resumed, and 109 lawmakers, including Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat, were barred from politics for five years. Still, Thailand's troubles are far from over: the selection of its next Prime Minister could spark renewed clashes...
...life for an ant scheme. That’s the principle that Chinese administrators put in practice last week when they executed Wang Zhendong for fraud. Zhendong had duped investors out of over 400 million dollars with a bogus plan to breed ants with aphrodisiac effects. China thus established a clear policy of (very) tough justice for white-collar criminals who operate on a large scale...
...Kozlowski was arguably the most high-profile executive crook of this millennium, but he had plenty of company, in crime and punishment. The top players at Adelphi Communications and Worldcom were also convicted of fraud, and saddled with imprisonments from 15 to 25 years. These sentences are certainly not insignificant. Yet, when you factor in the possibility for parole, the fates of these criminals seems less bleak—especially in light of their Chinese counterpart...
...case against the PPP and its coalition partners stemmed from an electoral fraud charge against party executive Yongyuth Tiyapairat. The country's Election Commission, and then the Supreme Court, ruled he had bribed local administrators to campaign for his party during the December 2007 national election. The Constitutional Court was tasked with deciding if the executive boards of each party knew enough about the wrongdoings of its members to justify recommendations by the Election Commission and the Office of the Attorney General that the parties be dissolved...