Globe Editorial
THAILAND Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's resignation on Tuesday signifies a healthy triumph of people power in that vibrant Southeast Asian nation. A cascade of huge public rallies against Thaksin's manipulation of democratic forms finally led to the fall of a new kind of autocrat -- the oligarch who buys power and wields it as the CEO of an entire country. (Full article: 437 words)
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