
Thai Tycoon Secures Vote To Become Prime Minister
Thailand has a new prime minister — and it’s not a Shinawatra. On Friday, parliament voted in billionaire construction tycoon Anutin Charnvirakul, a right-wing power player. He managed to stitch together a coalition and edge out the country’s most dominant political dynasty of the last 20 years. For decades, the Shinawatras have been a fixture