Thaksin Returns to Face the Music
After 17 months of exile following the September 2006 coup that deposed him and drove him from the country, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrived to the cheering of thousands of supporters at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport Thursday and vowed to quit Thai politics for good.
The big question is whether he means that, and what effect he will have…
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