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… More Images »  Thailand’s Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva, right, greets supporters in the rain during final campaigning efforts for the ruling Democrat Party in Bangkok on Friday. Big rallies in Bangkok marked a final push by candidates in a national election on Sunday aimed at resolving Thailand’s sometimes violent six-year political crisis but which [...]

Thailand’s massage parlour tycoon Chuwit Kamolvisit (C) poses in a jacuzzi inside Copa Cabana, one of his six upscale entertainment clubs
in Bangkok on August 2, 2003. (Adrees Latif/Reuters)…But that’s all in the past, Chuvit says. He has sold his old businesses and bristles at questions about his former endeavors, maintaining that he wants [...]

Chuwit Kamolvisit, a former brothel owner and born-again Christian, is running on an anti-graft ticket, telling all about the hefty kickbacks he once paid to police to keep his massage empire running. Though his Rak Prathet Thai (Love Thailand) Party has little chance of winning any more than a handful of seats, he’s pledging to [...]

In this June 21, 2011 photo, Chuwit Kamolvisit waves to his supporters during an election campaign for his Rak Thailand Party in Bangkok. (Photo: AP)BANGKOK — As the super-pimp who once ran Thailand’s biggest brothel empire and then exposed the police kickbacks he had to pay for it to flourish, Chuvit Kamolvisit feels uniquely qualified [...]

BANGKOK — As the super-pimp who once ran Thailand’s biggest brothel empire and then exposed the police kickbacks he had to pay for it to flourish, Chuvit Kamolvisit feels uniquely qualified to lead the country’s fight against corruption.
And in his quest to win a parliament seat in elections Sunday, the 49-year-old one-time massage parlor [...]

… There are no discrimination laws here against gay people, so a young gay Thai may feel like, ‘My life is free, I can do anything I want,’ when in reality, most gay people here live a double life, both with a straight male identity and with a gay identity,” said Narupon Duangwises, a cultural [...]

And in his quest to win a parliament seat in elections Sunday, the 49-year-old one-time massage parlor king is betting a public tired of divisive, hypocritical leaders will agree.
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BANGKOK (AP) — As the super-pimp who once ran Thailand’s biggest brothel empire and then exposed the police kickbacks he had to pay for it to flourish, Chuvit Kamolvisit feels uniquely qualified to lead the country’s fight against corruption.…After returning home, he made a fortune during a late 1980s real estate boom. When a client [...]

BANGKOK — As the super-pimp who once ran Thailand’s biggest brothel empire and then exposed the police kickbacks he had to pay for it to flourish, Chuvit Kamolvisit feels uniquely qualified to lead the country’s fight against corruption.…After returning home, he made a fortune during a late 1980s real estate boom. When a client took [...]

… 06-28) 04:21 PDT BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — As the super-pimp who once ran Thailand’s biggest brothel empire and then exposed the police kickbacks he had to pay for it to flourish, Chuvit Kamolvisit feels uniquely qualified to lead the country’s fight against corruption. And in his quest to win a parliament seat [...]