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...didn't hold out much hope. After all, Mati Sae-Ang was just a noodle-soup vendor, with a heroin addict for a son. Still, after watching her boy stick needles in his arms for a decade, what harm could there be in sending then Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra a note identifying her son's dealer in the northern Thai town of Chiang Rai? A billionaire tycoon turned politician, Thaksin had just launched a war on drugs. The campaign would be assailed by human-rights activists for claiming more than 2,000 lives in just three months...
...League must develop a detailed plan before the proposal is adopted. Scudamore suggested fixtures could be matched to a host city through a ballot. So, although Manchester City is owned by former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a strong bid from Bangkok wouldn't necessarily be enough to land a match involving that particular club. (And given the weather in January, don't expect Chelsea - owned by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich - to head for Moscow.) Don't expect much enthusiasm, either, from the English fans who sing their lungs out every week watching their teams play, home and away...
...Samak has proudly proclaimed himself the nominee of Thaksin Shinawatra, the prime minister ousted by the army in September 2006 and now living in self-imposed exile in Hong Kong. And that's where high-level members of Samak's People Power Party - widely regarded as Thaksin's proxy political vehicle - flocked over the weekend to start lobbying for Cabinet posts. "Samak faces real credibility problems," says Panitan Wattanayagorn, a political scientist at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. "Of course, he's not the one in charge...
GENERAL BOONRAWD SOMTAS, Thai Defense Minister, after deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's party won a key election...
...People Power Party (PPP), which campaigned on promises to pardon former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted in last year's military takeover, came within 12 seats of capturing an absolute majority in parliament. But the win is not as convincing as it appears: it falls far short of the landslide victory Thaksin himself scored in a 2005 election, and the popular vote was much closer than the number of seats in parliament won by the two leading parties would indicate (The PPP won 229 seats; the second-place Democrat Party, 164). Despite the PPP's strong showing, its leaders spent...