Thai prime minister’s day in court

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.