Thailand – winds of change

Saturday July 12, 2008
By KFH RESEARCH
THAILAND’S economy accelerated in the first quarter of 2008 as the first elected government since the coup in 2006 took office, underpinning a rebound in consumer confidence and spending. GDP growth for 1Q08 came in at 6% y-o-y (1.4% q-o-q), the fastest growth in two years and higher than the [...]

Thailand In the dock

Jul 10th 2008From The Economist print edition
Legal cases mount against the former prime minister and his allies
ENEMIES of Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand’s deposed prime minister, hope that a sudden blitz of court cases will achieve what protracted street demonstrations and even a military coup failed to do: finish off him and his allies for ever. On [...]