Anand Panyarachun, a former prime minister of Thailand, has always preferred a quiet life, which contrasts sharply with his enormously successful career as a high profile diplomat and politician who helped shaped Thailand’s politics as well as its outlook on the world. He is now the subject of a biography – Anand Panyarachun and The Making of Modern Thailand – written by veteran correspondent Dominic Faulder. Luke Hunt spoke with Faulder at the Foreign Correspondents’  Club of Thailand.

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