Word: sankampaeng
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...that last, pre-verdict campaign-style swing through Northern Thailand, as he works the crowd at Sankampaeng village, where the locals, adhering to Thaksin's One Village, One Product program, are proudly displaying the reams of mulberry paper they have been making, he continuously reminds his constituents of his connection with all things futuristic, shiny and new. He vows to distribute more money without government interference, without a single baht unfairly withheld, without unnecessary delay. He says in his Northern Thai accent that he is one of them, that he knows they can't wait for the money, that they...
...Thaksin grew up not far from that hotel, in Sankampaeng, near Chiang Mai, the second of 10 siblings. His father, a Chinese merchant who tried his hand at jobs ranging from bus driving to running a movie theater, was a modest success who would eventually rise to serve in parliament. Thaksin has steadily propagated the myth that he grew up impoverished. His aunt, Chansom Shinawatra, 78, however, shrugs when asked about the Shinawatra family circumstances: "We did well." Well enough, according to some of Thaksin's childhood friends, for the strapping, big-eared boy to own the only bicycle...
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