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The New York Times admitted in an early 2013 article titled, " In Thailand, Power Comes With Help From Skype ," that:  For the past year and a half, by the party’s own admission, the most important political decisions in this country of 65 million people have been made from abroad, by a former prime minister who has been in self-imposed exile since 2008 to escape corruption charges.  The country’s most famous fugitive,Thaksin Shinawatra, circles the globe in his private jet, chatting with ministers over his dozen cellphones, texting over various social media platforms and reading government documents e-mailed to him from civil servants, party officials say. The NYT piece would also report:   “He’s the one who formulates the Pheu Thai policies,†said Noppadon Pattama, a senior official in Mr. Thaksin’s party who also serves as his personal lawyer