By Soch Mel
In Southeast Asia, there has been a change of leadership in the Thai government. Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej has lost his position over comments that he made a cooking show. The comments were directed at the deputy governor. ".......Samak accused the deputy governor, Samart Ratchapholsit, of malfeasance in awarding city contracts" Because of this Sundaravej was put on trial and sent to two years in jail. For some Reason, the PM violated the Thai Constitution when he appeared as a guest on this cooking show!
Here's a link to Time magazine where the PM talks about the situation as well as his relationship with the last PM, Thaksin, who was ousted by a military coup in 2006. The result of that was a "backward" step for Thai democracy as the Constitutional Monarchy was suspended for the time being.
Finally, here's the link to a Wikipedia article on the Thai Coup of 2006.
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