Tag Archives: Kurt Campbell

Cambodia – In a never ending quest to irritate his larger neighbor, Thailand,  Cambodia’s Prime Minister, Hun Sen, is considering allowing former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to move there.   Despite the fact he is wanted on criminal charges in Thailand, ranging from tax evasion to treason.  Thaksin was deposed in a bloodless 2006 coup […]

Myanmar – There seems to be a lot in the news lately concerning the “hermit kingdom” of the south.  On Monday, the Burmese PM met with U.S. Senator Jim Webb, chairman of the Senate subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific.  Webb, in a continuation of the new pragmatic Obama foreign policy for SE Asia, […]