Ex-central banker and ex-speaker join Thai PM pool
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A former Thai central bank chief and a   former Senate speaker on Saturday joined a speculative pool of   candidates for the military to name as prime minister, four   days after their coup.
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Thailand named a former World Bank economist as its new finance minister Tuesday in the continuing fallout from last year's military coup whilst warning that economic growth will likely slow this year.
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Thailand's political parties pursued coalition talks Monday after allies of deposed Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra won nearly half the seats Â but not an outright majority Â in the first parliamentary election since a military coup.
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Thailand's ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra quits his role as leader of the Thai Rak Thai party.
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Former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Thursday that he would like to return to his home country to teach about business and management "after Thailand returns to democracy."
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Thailand's former Prime Minister is back in the region on holiday?and he's making the generals nervous
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BANGKOK, Dec. 23 -- Loyalists of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra won nearly half the seats in Thailand's parliamentary elections Sunday in a striking rebuke to the generals who forced the billionaire populist from power in 2006.
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Slowly but it seems surely, the party backing ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra is shaping up to form Thailand's next government, a stunning reversal of fortune after last year's military coup.
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Reports and rumors about the ruling juntaÂs choice for an interim prime minister centered on Surayud Chulanont, a respected retired general.
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Thai tax authorities have seized assets worth about $34.2 million from family members of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, an official said Thursday.
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KATHMANDU, Nepal  - Nepali King Gyanendra named  two former royalist prime ministers as deputies of his ruling  council, state radio said on Monday, in a move seen as further  tightening his grip on power in the troubled Himalayan kingdom.
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Thailand's coming polls revolve around a former Prime Minister who is not even in the country. Is this any way to hold an election?
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In the wake of this week's military coup in Thailand, former central bank Governor Chatumongol Sonakul is favored to become the country's interim civilian leader, The Bangkok Post newspaper said Saturday.
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Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra  became Thailand's first two-time elected leader on Monday,  marking a new era of stable government after a crushing  election victory that proved the power of mass market populism.
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By Aranee Jaiimsin, Bangkok Post, Thailand  Feb.
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Former World Trade Organization head   Supachai Panitchpakdi has agreed to be Thailand's new prime   minister, newspapers said on Tuesday, as the country's military   rulers unveiled a plan to return gradually to the barracks.
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Allies of deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra claimed victory in Sunday's elections, setting the stage for the billionaire's political comeback more than a year after his ouster in a coup.