Cabbie conspiracy. (Currents).'Why are oil the people who know how to run the country driving cabs?' goes the old joke. But Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra Thaksin Shinawatra (täk`sĭn shĭ`näwät), 1949–, Thai business executive and political leader, b. Chiang Mai. Born into a wealth merchant family, he went into the Thai police service in 1973 and continued his is not amused by Bangkok's opinionated o·pin·ion·at·ed adj. Holding stubbornly and often unreasonably to one's own opinions. [Probably from obsolete opinionate : opinion + -ate1. cabbies - and he's ordered an investigation into what he claims is a 'malicious campaign afoot in the city's taxi cabs' to discredit him. In his weekly radio address, Thaksin said his enemies were paying people to ride in cabs and gossip maliciously about him in the hope that the criticisms would spread. Prommin Lertsuriyadej, the Prime Minister's secretary-general, said several taxi drivers had informed him about the smear campaign smear campaign n → campaña de calumnias smear campaign n → campagne f de dénigrement smear campaign smear n and that, the Government will toke toke verb Substance abuse To inhale a large air volume while smoking a substance of abuse–eg, marijuana, less commonly cocaine or crack cocaine, maintaining the lungs expanded with a slight Valsalva maneuver, to maximize the substance's absorption. Cf 'Snort.'. legal action against anyone caught spreading rumours'. Critics soy that Thaksin is being paranoid. Bankok Post |
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