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Calculations and concerns
IT was an exercise in hand holding that Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra performed to perfection at his alma mater at Chiang Mai on July 12 as he sought to restore the people's confidence in his government. He was on a slippery slope: plummeting popularity, a falling baht, a trade deficit on the back of rising oil prices, corruption in government, clashes with the media and the terror situation in the three southern provinces of Nirathiwat, Yala and Pattani.
In fact, seemingly coordinated......
