Thailand's Thaksin Freeze Out
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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