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Back at headquarters in Hangzhou, Wang recently sat at a table with some Thai businessmen seeking investment in a phone plant. A TV-news crew had videotaped their arrival. A Thai executive asked whether Holley had reviewed their proposal. "Not yet," he was told. If Holley were to invest, the executive asked, what was its timeline? "The sooner the better!" Wang replied. And with a handshake, China's hottest private company seemed on the way to its next deal...
...DISMISSED. CHEA SOPHARA, 51, governor of Phnom Penh credited with turning the Cambodian capital into a tourist destination, by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen; in Phnom Penh. The move comes after violent anti-Thai riots earlier this month, which sent relations between Cambodia and Thailand to their lowest level in decades. Sophara was reassigned to be ambassador to Burma...
...When Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra vowed to eliminate illegal drugs from "every square inch of the country" by Apr. 30, listeners could be forgiven their doubts. This was the man, after all, who once pledged to untangle Bangkok's perpetually snarled roads. Traffic, it turns out, is still a problem, but early results of this new drug war suggest that traffickers are becoming an endangered species. During the first week of February, the police announced that 9,232 alleged dealers were arrested, and nearly 7,000 more surrendered. Authorities seized upwards of 41 million amphetamine pills. It seemed Thaksin...
...period, 144 alleged dealers turned up dead. The police claimed they were involved in only eight of those cases, all in self-defense. The rest, they maintained, were dealers snuffing out rival dealers to prevent them from ratting on each other. Human rights activists, among others, were incredulous. The Thai police have long been plagued by accusations of extrajudicial killing?most infamously in 1996 when six dealers were shot dead after being handcuffed?and the body count has again heightened fears that cops might be acting as judge, jury, and executioner. "If the police weren't involved," asked human rights...
Emily encourages Jordan to try her pad thai. He politely reminds her that it contains shrimp and chicken, lest Emily forget about the weeping calves. Emily steers the conversation away from bovine torture...