Vatsaloo picked up Srithap's Thai-Laotian dialect, and accompanied him back to his village--in those days, a three-day trip.
Despite the success of last year's Thai electricity bond, for example, many investors found it hard to price.
Mr Thaksin's Thai Rak Thai party says the generals are actually courting trouble, as an excuse to cling to power.
Last month, Mr Thaksin's Thai Rak Thai party lost two by-elections, giving the opposition enough seats to table censure motions against ministers.
Meanwhile, some 5, 479 miles eastward to Bankok, and Berlusconi's Thai counterpart Thaksin Shinawatra looked to be in a whole other league of pressure.
Thaksin's Thai Unity Party is polling well among urban voters.
Under Mr Abhisit, Mr Thaksin's Thai passports have been revoked.
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Although it expected to benefit from falling hard disk prices as suppliers recovered from last year's Thai floods, it warned that the savings would be offset by higher memory and display costs.
By contrast, Mr Thaksin's Thai Rak Thai party was the first party ever in Thailand to run on a platform of reform policies, which in large measure explains why he won so resoundingly.
It's the Thai king's birthday soon, and there's a lot going on in Thailand.
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It has an inbuilt majority of parliamentarians from Mr Thaksin's and Ms Yingluck's Pheu Thai party.
The baht's plunge has been a bonus for CP's core Thai agri-business exports of animal feed, frozen chicken and prawns.
Hovering over this stand-off is the prospect of an election, which Mr Thaksin's Pua Thai party reckons it can win.
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After this week's violence Thai Airways suspended a pilot who refused to carry parliamentarians from the ruling party on his plane.
Analysts have said GE Capital's investment has improved the Thai bank's operations, especially in the area of consumer loans.
Awadallah's partner, Thai Tran, lived as if he were still a college student.
He will also inaugurate a program to connect U.S. and Thai universities.
And as NPR's Doualy Xaykaothao reports from Bangkok, U.S. and Thai officials thought they had permission to send a C-130 into Myanmar, but that turned out not to be the case.
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Hope Group's strategy was simple -- to undercut the Thai company's price.
Tarrin is accused of engineering the Finance Ministry's takeover of Krung Thai Bank from the Financial Institutions Development Fund in the wake of last year's leak of a PricewaterhouseCoopers audit report that exposed allegedly poor lending practices at the bank.
Birla's units in Thailand, Thai Rayon and Thai Carbon Black, have both qualified for FORBES ASIA's 200 Best Under A Billion Companies.
After Friday's round, Woods gave a golf clinic for 38 children from the Young Thai Golfer's Association, demonstrating his repertoire of shots, answering questions, and entertaining the crowd.
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Tarrin is in damage-control mode, assuring the public that he would fully investigate Krung Thai's non-performing-loans.
But Mr Thaksin's was the first Thai government to offer coherent policies, such as cheap health care, to improve their lives.
Krung Thai's board of directors was replaced, and PWC lost its contract.
Naomi Watts, nominated as Best Actress for her performance in "The Impossible, " spends half the film on death's door in a Thai hospital.
The Dutchman beat top seed Srichaphan 7-5 6-1, dealing a serious blow to the Thai's hopes of making the Masters Cup in Houston next month.
Indeed, the only ones to prosper were those running on Thai Rak Thai's ticket, which suggests that they needed the party more than it needed them.
After Srichaphan required medical treatment for cramp at 2-3 down in the decider, Murray seized on the ailing Thai's vulnerability to break him in the next game.
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