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...slipped away from the campaign trail frequently this year: in March, McCain visited Kosovo with HALO to assess progress in clearing minefields there. In June, she was in Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia, working with Operation Smile, the charity that helps disfigured children and on whose board she also serves. In July, she was in Rwanda, reviewing relief efforts by the World Food Programme. She plans to return to the U.S. from Georgia late Wednesday. "It's a very quick trip," she says...
...connecting flight in Bangkok, where Thai immigration authorities rejected his request to remain in the country, even after he claimed to have a heart attack in the departure lounge. Gadd then hopped a flight to Hong Kong, where officials once again denied him entry, sending him instead back to Thailand. After twenty hours in the Bangkok transit hall - and after 2,661 miles of air travel in Southeast Asia - he was finally forced on a Thai Airways flight to London...
Thaksin was ousted as Prime Minister in a bloodless military coup d'etat in September 2006 by a clique of generals who claimed he was corrupt, dividing the country and had disrespected Thailand's revered monarchy. He spent the next 18 months in self-imposed exile in various countries, while a military-appointed committee investigated and filed charges against him in raft of corruption cases. He has consistently denied all charges against...
...impact of Thaksin's flight on the country's ongoing political tensions isn?t yet clear, but the Stock Exchange of Thailand's main index shot up 1.77 percent after his statement aired. "In the short term, this might contribute to stability," says Panitan Wattanayagorn, a political analyst at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. He says Thaksin's exile could give Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej - who is closely allied with the former PM and once declared himself Thaksin's "nominee" - more flexibility to negotiate with the forces lining up against his government in recent months, including street protesters, the opposition Democrat...
Still, Thaksin remained popular with the rural poor, who make up a majority of Thailand's electorate, and in December 2007 they voted in a government led by a party widely considered to be a proxy of the ousted prime minister. In February 2008, Thaksin returned to Thailand, kissing the tarmac at Bangkok International Airport as supporters cheered him on, and vowing to prove his innocence in court...