Suthep voted Asia's Person of the Year 2013 on Asia Society website

Asia Society announced that Thaugsuban attracted 88 percent of the vote, nearly 116,000 votes in total.
Malala Yousafzai, the female education rights activist from Pakistan, was runner-up for the second consecutive year. She earned close to 12,000 votes, 9 percent of the total.
Asia Society is a leading educational organization dedicated to promoting mutual understanding and strengthening partnerships among peoples, leaders and institutions of Asia and the United States in a global context.
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