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Thaksin on a mission to humiliate Thai government

BANGKOK (AP) -- Thailand's fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has spent much of the past three years roaming the globe, shopping for diamonds in Africa, golfing at Asian resorts - and humiliating the government from a distance.... ...full story at AP

from AP on Fri, Nov 06 2009

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