Thailand’s State Capitalism (Joshua Kurlantzick, CFR)

Though former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose family originally came from the northern suburbs of Chiang Mai, has lived in exile for years, in the Chiang Mai area, until the spring of 2014, it was almost as if he never left.

http://blogs.cfr.org/asia/2016/03/23/thailands-state-capitalism/