Anthea Buys
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/ 12 June 2007

Thai PM says Thaksin can return from exile

Thailand’s army-installed prime minister said on Tuesday that ousted premier Thaksin Shinawatra would be allowed to return to the kingdom to defend himself against corruption charges. ”His reason for wanting to return is understandable. He needs to come to fight the charges” made by an anti-corruption panel, Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont told reporters.

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/ 14 May 2004

In living colour

He’s shy at first, or perhaps just slightly vulnerable — after all, he’s made his intensely personal story about growing up coloured in apartheid South Africa a public one. Novelist and poet Chris van Wyk has recently published his tragicomic memoir called <i>Shirley, Goodness & Mercy</i>. He spoke to Nikki Temkin.