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THAILAND’S recent political history has been, to put it mildly, volatile. In 1997 a democratic constitution supposedly ended several decades of flirting with generals. Full Article at Economist
Samak Sundaravej, who died last Tuesday aged 74, combined a career as a television celebrity chef with a brief spell as prime minister of Thailand. Full Article at Times Online
An unidentified woman mourner touches the hand of late former Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej during a bathing rites ceremony at a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. View Photo »
Samak Sundaravej cooking for Thai troops on the Cambodian border in 2008. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
BANGKOK - Samak Sundaravej, a firebrand right-wing politician and TV cooking show host who served a brief and tumultuous term last year as Thailand’s prime minister, died of cancer yesterday. He was 74. Full Article at Boston Globe
endeared him to some, and a bias against freewheeling democracy and the press — a "burden on development" he once called reporters, whom he periodically berated for asking "lousy" questions. Full Article at TwinCities.com
An unidentified mourner pours water on to the hand of late former Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej during a bathing rites ceremony at a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. View Photo »
Samak Sundaravej a firebrand politician who briefly served as Thailand's Prime Minister but was ousted for simultaneously getting income as host of a popular television cooking show, died yesterday. Full Article at New Zealand Herald
Samak Sundaravej was the 25th Prime Minister of Thailand and a leading politician during some of the country’s most turbulent times in recent history but was forced out of office for the unlikely offence of presenting a television cookery programme. Full Article at Times Online
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An unidentified woman mourner touches the hand of late former Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej during a bathing rites ceremony at a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009.
View Photo »An unidentified mourner pours water on to the hand of late former Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej during a bathing rites ceremony at a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009.
View Photo »Two Thai mourners pass the portrait of late former Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej during a bathing rites ceremony at a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009.
View Photo »An unidentified woman mourner gestures as she pays her last respect to the portrait of late former Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej during a bathing rites ceremony at a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009.
View Photo »Mourners pay their last respect to late former Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, center, during a bathing rites ceremony at a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009.
View Photo »Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej arrives at the city hall in Udon Thani province, about 580 km (360 miles) east of Bangkok, in this September 9, 2008 file photo.
View Photo »Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej speaks to his supporters in Udon Thani province, about 580 km (360 miles) east of Bangkok, in this September 8, 2008 file photo.
View Photo »Former Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej speaks to media upon his departure from parliament in Bangkok in this September 11, 2008 file photo.
View Photo »Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej arrives at the city hall in Udon Thani province, about 580 km (360 miles) east of Bangkok, in this September 9, 2008 file photo.
View Photo »Former Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej speaks to media upon his departure from parliament in Bangkok on September 11, 2008. Combative veteran former Thai prime minister Samak Sundaravej died on November 24, 2009 after a battle with cancer, his aide and hospital officials said.
View Photo »FILE - In this September 9, 2008 file photo, Thailand's then Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, right, is greeted by a woman villager as he tours a market before holding the cabinet meeting in Udon Thani province, northeastern Thailand.
View Photo »FILE - In this January 29, 2008 file photo, Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej gestures after receiving the royal command appointing him the country's prime minister at his residence in Bangkok, Thailand.
View Photo »FILE - In this September 9, 2008 file photo, Thailand's Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej tours a market before holding the cabinet meeting in Udon Thani province, northeastern Thailand.
View Photo »In this photo taken Jan. 21, 2008, Thailand's former Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej is seen in Bangkok, Thailand. A Thai hospital has confirmed that Samak, a firebrand right-wing politician and TV celebrity who briefly served as prime minister, has died on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009.
View Photo »An unidentified mourner pours water on to the hand of late former Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej during a bathing rites ceremony at a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009.
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