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Thaksin on a mission to humiliate Thai government

November 7, 2009 By The Associated Press JOCELYN GECKER (Associated Press Writer)

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.

Now, the deposed and divisive ex-leader is an economic adviser to the government of neighboring Cambodia, and that's too close for comfort for Thailand's...

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