Thai Elections Could End Country's Political Crisis

Story date: 2007-12-22 04:37:00
Added on: 2007-12-22 22:00:16

NPR News - The coup threw out the government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ... for Thailand's poor by offering micro-loans to small businesspeople and low-interest ... club Manchester City, and by spending millions of pounds to attract first-rate ...


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