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...Roll over, Beethoven?and light me a cigarette. Ever since Thai-Chinese violin sensation Vanessa-Mae was featured on a 1995 album cover as if she had just won a wet-nightgown competition, record companies have been prowling for accomplished female musicians capable of playing fiddle at a high, steamy pitch. In bond (the "b" is lowercase in deference to 007 copyright lawyers), U.K.-based Decca Records has found its own variation of Sex in the Symphony. Released in 2000, the group's first album, Born, topped classical music charts around the world, selling more than 1 million copies...
...Thaksin, a telecommunications billionaire, prides himself on his CEO-style leadership. He's boasted of his own willingness, when necessary, to change the rules to achieve desired results. When elected in 2001, he had the biggest parliamentary majority in Thai history. He ran as a reformer and an ostensible supporter of Thailand's pro-democracy 1997 constitution. But Thaksin's first year in office has been characterized by the sort of top-down management style that might work in the boardroom but seems autocratic almost anywhere else. By absorbing other minority parties, his Thai Rak Thai party...
...released a survey showing that Thaksin's popularity had declined from 72% to 52%, their office was visited by senior officials of the Defense Ministry, the Ministry of University Affairs and the Special Branch police?all on the same day and without warning. When Chulakorn Singhakowin, head of the Thai Bankers Association, said in an interview last August that Thailand could face a 10-year recession, Thaksin exploded in response, telling him to "shut...
...explaining the planned expulsion of the Far Eastern Economic Review reporters, he suggested publicly they had offended the country's revered monarchy. (They hadn't, and weren't charged with violating Thailand's l?se majest? laws.) One of the ways he came to power was promising to give every Thai village about $23,000. He did?but now most of that money has been spent. In a by-election last month, Thai Rak Thai won only four of the 14 House of Representatives seats contested. Thais knew their leader was adept with carrots. Now they're seeing how he wields...
...spent my first two hours in Bangkok stuck in crosstown traffic. With precious vacation time ticking away, I swore off wheeled transport and decided to take boats from then on. For most of Bangkok's 220-year history, boats were the only way to get around the Thai capital, which straddles both the Chao Phraya River and a tangled network of klongs, or canals. Even though many of the old waterways have been paved over, most of the city's major attractions can be reached by boat. The Chao Phraya Express serves the river like a public bus, stopping...