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Wed 11 Nov 2009Regional rift as Thaksin takes up post in Cambodia
FORMER THAI prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has flown to the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh to take up a job as special economic adviser to the government, in a provocative move that has ratcheted up regional tensions between the two neighbours.
From the time Mr Thaksin was sentenced, in absentia, to two years in jail in neighbouring Thailand for corruption, he has been busily trying to work his way back home, using tactics that have done much to undermine the government of ruling prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.
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