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...junta is trying to bring charges of corruption and abuse of power against Thaksin. Yet the new regime is itself starting to lose favor among Thais: promised dates for the repeal of martial law and fresh elections have yet to be announced, and junta members have come under fire for giving themselves pay raises and top jobs in state companies. "The longer the government shows its indecisiveness, the better it is for Thaksin," says Thammasat University politics professor Somjai Phagaphasvivat. Thaksin's legal adviser, Noppadol Patama, says his client's travels around Asia are not intended to capitalize...
...million Value of gifts, according to one estimate, at the lavish wedding of the daughter of Burmese junta leader General Than Shwe, a leaked video of which was released last week $18 million Estimate of Burma's total annual health-care budget in 2003, the latest reliable data available. The country of 53 million people is one of the poorest in the world...
...place and elections promised for next year, the leaders of Thailand's Sept. 19 coup spent last week reassuring the world that the country was returning to some semblance of normalcy. But will the economy do the same? Interim Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont, a former general installed by the junta on Oct. 1, began his tenure by publicly committing himself to the "people's happiness." But Surayud's definition of happiness, which emphasizes "self-sufficient" economic practices over GDP growth, and consumption of local goods over foreign products, worries some economists and investors?particularly since more than 60% of Thailand...
...unifying trait of these Latin American Macbeths is that they disregard democratic continuity; nothing transcends them. This is even represented in the syntax used every time a new regime or military junta is called in. The PRI party’s name in Mexico, which “won” elections uninterruptedly for almost a century, stands for “Institutional Revolution Party.” In Argentina, the last military junta instituted a permanent “Process of National Reorganization,” which gave painful birth to thousands of “desaparecidos...
...baby has been thrown out with the bathwater. But the baby will be retrieved." KRIT GARNJANA-GOONCHORN, Thailand's senior foreign-affairs official for both the previous government and the new ruling military junta, promising that restrictions on civil liberties imposed after the recent coup would eventually be removed...