Thailand votes after three prime ministers in two years

BANGKOK, Feb 6: Thais vote Sunday in an election pitting the popular reformists who won last time against the conservative who ended up as prime minister, with ex-leader Thaksin Shinawatra looming large from his prison cell.
The Southeast Asian nation's next government will need to reckon with a long-standing border dispute with Cambodia that twice erupted into deadly fighting last year, and the multibillion-dollar transnational cyberscam networks based in the region.
Economic growth is anaemic, with the tourism sector vital but arrivals yet to return to their pre-Covid highs, and fast-growing Vietnam is now attracting more foreign direct investment.
No party is expected to win an outright majority, and analysts say the election could be a repeat of the last poll less than three years ago.    �"AFP