Oct 15, 2009 — See Agence France Presse (Wire Service)
Thai stocks dived in trading Thursday as anxiety over the health of the nation's revered king and fears of political instability pummelled the market for a second day running. ..."From school and in the media, people are told that the monarchy is central to what it means to be Thai," said Kevin Hewison, a Thai politics researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the US. "The monarchy is a large part of the way many people believe Thailand operates at the moment," he added.
