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Thai prime minister’s day in court

Headline: Thai prime minister’s day in courtSource: EuromoneyDate: July 2001Author: Kevin Rafferty         Thaksin Shinawatra Is Thailand’s prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra just an entrepreneurial businessman in a hurry, anxious to bring to the country the same benefits that he won in the telecoms business, where he became a US dollar billionaire and […]

January 1, 2000

Headline: Thai prime minister’s day in court
Source: Euromoney
Date: July 2001
Author: Kevin Rafferty

       
Thaksin Shinawatra
Is Thailand’s prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra just an entrepreneurial businessman in a hurry, anxious to bring to the country the same benefits that he won in the telecoms business, where he became a US dollar billionaire and one of world’s richest 500 people in quick time? Or does he just love power so much that he will do anything to keep it?

Bangkok’s newspapers and political circles were full of both claims last month after the prime minister abruptly sacked the respected governor of the Bank of Thailand, Chatumongkol Sonakul.






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