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Thai Junta Shuts Public’s Ears to Bad News

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Dec 02, 2015
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When the international edition of the New York Times was delivered in Thailand on Nov. 30, the front page of the paper featured a large white blank space. In other editions, the paper featured a detailed story by staff correspondent Thomas Fuller on the growing paralysis in the Thai economy.

That white space is emblematic of both the inability of the gen…

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