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Rising to become an active member of the Thai government, Sathirathai served as Minister of Finance from 1995 to 1996. After taking on various roles ranging from academia to government, he became the country’s foreign minister in 2001, and in March became Thailand’s deputy prime minister...
...furious. They killed my men. If I could, I would drop napalm bombs all over that village." TRAIKWAN KRAIRIKSH, Thai marine captain, on the fate of two soldiers abducted and beaten to death by Muslim separatists in the country's southern Narathiwat province last week...
...Bangkok, traces Mike, a rising sophomore at Harvard and a summer intern at an Asian newsmagazine, as he befriends whores and journalists-—the distinction between the two professions becomes blurred in the novel—while researching an article on the Thai ecstasy scene. (Though the protagonists of “The Third Brother” and “Twelve” share a common first name and several character traits, McDonell’s second novel is not a sequel to his first...
...Mike’s trip to Bangkok quickly becomes a sort of Thai version of “Heart of Darkness.” The country’s prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, is waging a ruthless war against drug traffickers, with innocent civilians and foreign tourists caught in the crossfire. Meanwhile, Mike tracks down his father’s onetime Holworthy Hall roommate, Christopher Dorr, a freelance journalist who has moved into a dense Bangkok shanty-town and who has become a modern-day version of Conrad’s sadistic Captain Kurtz...
...Consider some of the many ill-fated outbreaks of investor madness that have gripped Asia in recent decades: the giddiness over Japanese stocks in the late 1980s, the Hong Kong property bubble of the 1990s, euphoria over Chinese red chips in 1996-97 and the mad rise of Thai banking stocks before the carnage of the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis. Today, as always, there are pockets of mania that could end in mayhem, from the Shanghai property boom to delirious foreign investment in overheated Indian midcap stocks...