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Thailand's political crisis appeared to deepen on Tuesday when the country's Supreme Court sentenced former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to two years in prison for violating conflict of interest laws while in office. The Supreme Court delivered a victory to the anti-Thaksin protesters that have been camped out in Bangkok for months when it ruled 5 to 4 that the former Thai leader broke Thai law by approving the sale of state-owned Bangkok real estate to his wife for $22.7 million...
...hodgepodge group of demonstrators that has occupied Government House, Thailand's seat of power, since late August, forcing newly elected Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat to work out of the VIP lounge of Bangkok's old airport. Pitted against the PAD are those associated with former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in a military coup in 2006. On the evening of Oct. 6, members of the PAD swarmed the streets around parliament in what they called their ultimate mission: stopping Somchai, who is Thaksin's brother-in-law, from delivering an inaugural policy address. Until a Prime Minister...
...undeniable who my relatives are, but I will do things the right way.' SOMCHAI WONGSAWAT, Thailand's newly elected Prime Minister, on his brother-in-law, exiled former PM Thaksin Shinawatra...
...crowds still camped outside Samak's former offices are not impressed. The demonstrators, who call themselves the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), had been calling for Samak's ouster ever since he took office, labeling him nothing more than a puppet of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who himself had been deposed by a bloodless military coup in 2006. A billionaire tycoon who now lives in self-imposed exile in Britain, Thaksin has been charged with corruption in several different cases. (On the same day Somchai was voted in, the Supreme Court issued a third arrest warrant against Thaksin...
...Minister from having a job outside of official duties. Yet just as soon as Samak was removed, his party declared its intention to renominate him, a move likely to perpetuate Thailand's political unrest. Samak's detractors allege he is merely a proxy for exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, removed in a military coup...