Ah, Sister Shinawatra!
"New Thai leader says she won’t be puppet" by Associated Press / July 9, 2011
BANGKOK - Thailand’s prime minister-to-be said yesterday that she would try to benefit from her exiled brother’s ideas to help the country but insisted she will make her own decisions as leader and not be his puppet.
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Usually between my belly and me after eating at the little shop downtown.
Yingluck Shinawatra said she couldn’t avoid being the sister of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, ousted in a 2006 military coup and still loathed by much of the Thai establishment.
Kind of like potluck on the tummy temblors.
In a news conference, Yingluck she said she would make decisions for the country independently. She parried many questions about her planned policies, preferring to wait until she takes office.
She said her 20 years of business experience have shown she can make her own decisions....
Yingluck has worked at several of her family’s businesses, most recently as chief executive of the property development company SC Asset....
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Did you know, Suu Kyi is Burmese for CIA?
