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...electorate will do what's right," he says, surprising words perhaps for a Bangkok patrician whose party was overwhelmed by Thaksin's populist tactics six years ago. Whatever happens, at least one former Prime Minister is confident about Thailand's future. "We're good at improvising," says Anand Panyarachun, who steered the nation during two separate stints in the early 1990s. "We may not be as systematic as some other countries in our democracy, but we'll figure out a way forward." A certain candidate, remembering his political awakening as a 9-year-old boy, would no doubt agree...
...clear who is responsible, yet underpinning many attacks is a deep sense of resentment against the Thai establishment, and a belief that the government is ill-treating or discriminating against Muslims. In June, the government-appointed National Reconciliation Commission, chaired by the highly respected former Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun, made some modest proposals to address local grievances on issues such as justice and consultation. But caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his cabinet have yet to act on Anand's report...
...senior-school headmaster last year, the London Dulwich shipped out an acting headmaster to replace them. There's no sign of Dulwich dialing back on its overseas expansion. The franchise owners - an education-management firm linked to Dulwich, London, by alumnus and two-time Thailand Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun - will open two more schools in China: a junior school in Suzhou in 2007 and an upper-school joint venture with a leading Chinese high school in Beijing in 2008. Dulwich has plans for India, too. The trend has caught on: Shrewsbury School has a three-year-old affiliate in Bangkok...
...badly does the United Nations need reform? A blue-ribbon panel commissioned by Kofi Annan counted 101 ways in a much anticipated report released last week. Headed by former Thai Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun, the 16-member panel had something to say about everything from nuclear proliferation to looming pandemics. But the real buzz was caused by the panel's call to expand and revamp the U.N.'s most important decision-making body, the Security Council. If approved, the recommendations would produce the biggest shake-up at Turtle Bay in more than a generation. "The chances of thorough reform have...
...might the U.N. be willing to go this time around? In an effort to improve regional representation, the Panyarachun panel came up with two alternatives for changing the Council's composition. The first would expand the permanent membership from five to 11 nations and increase the number elected to rotating terms from 10 to 13. The second proposal would create a middle tier of eight members elected to renewable four-year terms, and add a new two-year term. Under both proposals, the Security Council would grow from 15 to 24 seats. But neither idea grants the new members...