Thaksin in trouble? Thaksin shinawatra, Thailand's prime minister, has found a new gear: reverse. On June 1st, his government backed away from a plan to hold a state-sponsored lottery to buy a stake in Liverpool, an English football team. Two days before, it had called off a planned meeting between a senior general and a separatist leader from the country's restive south, after resistance from ministers and the army. In the past six months, the prime minister has retreated noisily and chaotically from policies on everything from privatisation to licensing hours.
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