Thailand Charts an Uncertain Course

Is there enough ballast in Thaksin’s surrogate Pheu Thai to keep the military and establishment at bay?

Take me to your leader

Thailand’s new government, an unwieldy coalition of 11 political parties headed by Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, is an experiment in who will actually chart the government’s course – Thaksin Shinawatra, the telecommunications billionaire who has returned from 15 years in exile after having been ousted in a 2006 coup, or the mili…