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Thailand's Thaksin Freeze Out

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Jun 14, 2007
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Immediately after his family sold their giant telecommunications firm Shin Corp to Singapore’s Temasek Holdings for nearly 74 billion baht in January 2006, critics howled over the tax-free sale and the disposal of a national asset to a foreign country.

Deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra shrugged and called his critics “jealous.”

“Everything has been …

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