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National jaundice

July 8th, 2007 by Andrew Walker · 31 Comments

New Mandala has taken a long-term interest in Thailand’s royalist yellow fever. In one of our earliest posts (from 20 June last year) Nich Farrelly highlighted the phenomenon and asked:
I do wonder what colour t-shirts everybody will be wearing in three months time [20 September!].
The answer, of course, was yellow. In the lead up to the coup [...]

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Tags: Coup · Sufficiency Economy · Surayud regime · Thailand