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Breathing space for Thailand?

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Mar 10, 2012
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For the first time perhaps since 2006 when former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was overthrown and ousted in a royalist coup, Thailand seems to have some breathing space. That isn’t to say there aren’t tensions, with continued demonstrations calling for constitutional change and modification of the country’s draconian lèse-majesté laws.

But Yingluck …

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