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...most immediate casualty is bilateral links. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra downgraded diplomatic ties and closed border checkpoints. He fired off a memorandum to Hun Sen demanding an apology, compensation and the arrest of those responsible for the violence, and he put on hold plans to sign a $13.3 million soft loan for a road project in Cambodia. He told reporters, "We have been badly hurt...
...being an accepted part of U.S. society. Unfortunately, this video didn't get nearly the viewership of an average episode of Friends. Yet if Washington fails to revamp its image in Asia, it may push countries into the embrace of the rising great power: China. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is taking his country down that road, even though Thailand is traditionally one of Washington's staunchest military allies. China has the cachet of being the region's new economic engine. And increasingly, Asia's industrializing nations see their future as being intertwined with a Middle Kingdom that will...
Money and connections might take you far in life, but Panthongtae Shinawatra is discovering they don't do you much good on the final exam. The 22-year-old son of Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand's prime minister, was reportedly caught cheating with crib notes during a political science exam at Bangkok's Ramkhamhaeng University. According to local newspaper reports, Panthongtae signed a confession and could now face a one-year school suspension...
...individual taking most of the heat is Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. After vowing to get tough with the Burmese and drugs, lately he's lately been preaching a more tolerant line. When Burma protested over Thai army exercises near the border last month, Thaksin's government halted them, and told soldiers to counter incursions by firing blanks. Tensions between the Thai government and its military are so palpable that, according to local press reports, Thaksin endured a chewing-out last week by Chief Privy Councillor Prem Tinsulanonda. Thaksin's intentions have been called into question because his company, Shin...
...monk made more headlines last year than Phra Issaramunee, abbot of Thammaviharee Temple and a personal guru to Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Accused of having an affair with a female follower, he was disrobed, although he still insists he is innocent. The same can't be said for former abbot Phra Thammathorn Wanchai. Two years ago, he was caught by a television news crew in an army colonel's uniform holding a tryst with two prostitutes. Disrobed and sentenced to six months in jail for impersonating an army officer, he was unrepentant and threatened to expose other monks...