THAILAND: Hopes for stability after December 23 polls

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Updated December 17, 2007 21:19:48

Thailand goes to the polls on December the 23rd to elect a new government. It is hoped that this time, the military's generals will not intervene as they have 18 times in recent history by staging coups against a sitting government.

Presenter: Adam Connors
Speakers: Pichai Chuensuksawadi, editor-in-chief of the Bangkok Post; Giles Ji Ungpakorn, political scientist at Chulalongkorn University and author of 'A Coup for the Rich'

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