BANGKOK, Thailand -- Billionaire George Soros has cancelled a planned visit to Thailand amid threats from protesters who blame him for the Asian economic crisis.
The protesters threatened to pelt Soros, a financier who operates out of New York, with excrement and rotten eggs.
They accuse him of speculating on the That baht in early 1998, causing it to be devalued and setting off a wave of panic across the region that caused shares indexes to crash, currencies to plunge and commodity prices to hit long-term lows.
The ensuing financial crisis eventually spread to emerging markets in Russia and Latin America.
An official at the Foreign Correspondent Club of Thailand (FCCT), which had organized a speech by Soros at Bangkok's famous Oriental Hotel on Thursday, said Soros had pulled out of the event
http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/01/29/thailand.soros/
2007-01-13 02:51:56 · 8 answers · asked by madame mao 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
bad karma always comes back to haunt you
2007-01-13 02:55:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
George Soros Thailand
2016-12-12 07:21:00 · answer #2 · answered by plyler 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
simply by fact he money smear operations like MediaMatters and circulate.on. And he's prosperous and reported he could sacrifice all of it to ward off Bush's reelection in 2004. He has lots of ability and he abuses it by investment despite will convey the republican occasion down, no remember if that's shady or not.
2016-10-19 22:26:41 · answer #3 · answered by woodworth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Y E S!! Glad to hear about this idiot having to
cancel his meeting. They should do the same thing every where he goes!!!
2007-01-13 03:07:12 · answer #4 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This might be a good time for him to pull all of his investments out of there too.
2007-01-13 02:56:54 · answer #5 · answered by kathy059 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's a good one. Their probably not too happy with him.
2007-01-13 02:55:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If we dont watch this bastard he will do the same here.
2007-01-13 02:55:35 · answer #7 · answered by 007 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Apparently so.
2007-01-13 03:05:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋