The leaked phone call that could ring the changes for one of Thailand’s most powerful dynasties

The leaked phone call that could ring the changes for one of Thailand’s most powerful dynasties

A conversation between the prime minister and Cambodia’s former leader has sparked chaos and coup concerns and possibly the end of the Shinawatra family’s political fortunesIt was a call to someone she considered an old family friend. When Thai prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra picked up the phone to Hun Sen, the powerful former leader of neighbouring Cambodia, she was trying, she says, to ease tensions that had erupted over a border dispute…