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...want a [assassinated Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik] Hariri commission-style investigation... we are writing to the United Nations for an international probe into her martyrdom." According to Dawn, a local newspaper Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said that he would "consider" outside help during a phone call with British PM Gordon Brown yesterday, which many are interpreting as a "thanks, but no thanks" dismissal...
Sooner or later the politicians were bound to weigh in. On Nov. 7, Stephen Harper announced he was "concerned" about the dollar's "unprecedented" rise, an unusual Prime Ministerial foray on to Bank of Canada turf. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty met with the PM the next day, calling for lower interest rates and a federal contribution to a $1.1 billion jobs fund for struggling Ontario manufacturers. (Harper made no promises.) The same day, the Quebec Premier was demanding a loonie summit with all the provincial Premiers. (One is now scheduled for January). Just six weeks after the loonie achieved parity...
...best weapon is evidently Thaksin's name. Anyone attending the party's rallies could be forgiven for thinking that the deposed PM is running for office. A recent Samak rally in Yasothon province in Isaan attracts thousands of people, many of them trucked in from surrounding villages. A stall sells books and pamphlets attacking the former PM's political and military foes, plus a VCD featuring an emotional Thaksin called One Year Missing. "I cried when I watched it," says the old woman selling them. The two candidates whom Samak has come to support are all but forgotten. Instead...
...Keeping the military in its barracks and out of politics will be one challenge for Thailand's next PM. So will healing the country. Suriyasai Katasila, secretary general of the Campaign for Popular Democracy, has accused the PPP of drawing up an "enemies list," something that the party's deputy secretary general Noppadon Pattama denies. "Let bygones be bygones," he says. "We should not fail the Thai people by arguing and quarreling." Noppadon says his party has adopted "a less confrontational style." If so, nobody has told PPP pit bull Chalerm Yubamrung, who has publicly vowed to "execute" Thaksin...
...want to go back as Prime Minister. It's too much already," Thaksin told Reuters on Dec. 7. "My wife will divorce me if I go back to politics." So Thaksin will never be PM again? "Nothing can be ruled out," smiles PPP executive Noppadon, who doubles as Thaksin's spokesman and legal adviser. "He is still young and very energetic." Back on the campaign trail in northeast Thailand, a PPP candidate is urging his audience to send a message to Thaksin. "Please clap loudly so that England can hear you," he says. It's a safe bet that England...