They accuse Thaksin, Thailand’s wealthiest businessman, of corruption and treason for the tax-free sale of his family-owned Shin Corporation to the Singapore government’s Temasek Holdings for $1.9 billion. Thaksin’s rapid reversal of political fortune attests to the limits of the ballot box, as well as to democratic shortcomings that now beset a host of developing countries, including regional neighbors such as the Philippines.
他信是泰国的商界首富。他信被控腐败以及通过将家族家族企业那越集团以19亿美元免税出售给新加坡政府控股的淡马锡控股公司的叛国行径。他信的政治运程急转直下证明了选举的局限性以及当今困扰许多发展中国家、包括菲律宾在内的地区邻国的民主缺陷。