Saturday, May 8, 2010

UMW Regional GeogBlog » Bangkok: Protest in a Primate City

These so-called “Red Shirts” have barricaded themselves behind bamboo fortifications, and by some accounts have set up a mini-city, complete with food vendors and first aid stations, in a park, along some streets, and in a major intersection. ... Around the turn of the century, Thailand's rural poor found a new and unlikely champion in Thaksin Shinawatra, a billionaire cell-phone entrepreneur turned populist politician. Thaksin was elected Prime Minister in 2001, ...

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