{"id":452,"date":"2008-07-08T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=452"},"modified":"2008-07-08T11:00:42","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T11:00:42","slug":"is-thailand-beginning-to-set-a-good-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/is-thailand-beginning-to-set-a-good-example\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Thailand beginning to set a good example?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/7494664.stm\">Thaksin Shinawatra is going on trial<\/a>.\u00a0 And it seems that judicial process might be getting institutional and popular backing.\u00a0 That would be a very positive sign that Thailand is maturing into a sophisticated society and economy.<\/p>\n<p>My experience with the judicial process a decade ago was not encouraging.\u00a0 And I doubt we&#8217;ll see a conviction.\u00a0 But the news that  three of his lawyers were jailed last month by the Supreme Court for offering a cash bribe in a cake box is surprising.\u00a0 Perhaps the Thai judiciary is becoming a counterweight to military, police and political corruption is encouraging.\u00a0 Well done Thailand.\u00a0 Other maturing nations, especially in Asia, should move in this direction.\u00a0 Watch this space &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thaksin Shinawatra is going on trial.\u00a0 And it seems that judicial process might be getting institutional and popular backing.\u00a0 That would be a very positive sign that Thailand is maturing into a sophisticated society and economy. My experience with the judicial process a decade ago was not encouraging.\u00a0 And I doubt we&#8217;ll see a conviction.\u00a0 &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/is-thailand-beginning-to-set-a-good-example\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is Thailand beginning to set a good example?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,21,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-asia","category-trade-and-fdi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-7i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}