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	The Pheu Thai Party has registered caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra as its first party-list candidate by entering the candidate registration site at 4am on Monday.</div>
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	How appropriate that the party set to steal the country should enter like a thief in the night.</div>
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	Richard Bowler</div>
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	Bangkok</div>

Like a thief in the night

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<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%">Nongluck is a senior economic journalist covering the macroeconomics, real estate, and corporate investment strategies driving growth across Thailand and Southeast Asia</span></span><span lang="TH" style="font-size:18.0pt"><span style="line-height:107%"><span style="font-family:&quot;Angsana New&quot;,serif">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></p>

Like a thief in the night

Re: "Yingluck registered as Pheu Thai No 1 party-list candidate", Politics, December 23.

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