{"id":1430,"date":"2009-11-24T09:16:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T15:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2009-11-24T09:17:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T15:17:49","slug":"thai-prime-minister-samak-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/thai-prime-minister-samak-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, who was ousted from office last year for appearing on television cooking shows for payment, died Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/samak-sundaravej.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1431\" title=\"Samak Sundaravej\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/samak-sundaravej-280x182.jpg\" alt=\"Samak Sundaravej\" width=\"280\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/samak-sundaravej-280x182.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/samak-sundaravej.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><\/strong>Samak died after a two-month hospitalization at Bangkok&#8217;s Bumrungrad International Hospital for liver cancer, said his personal secretary, Paisarn Akkasarakul. Samak was 74 and had battled cancer for a year.<\/p>\n<p>His funeral will be held at Benjamaborpit Temple and a royally sponsored bathing rite is set for Wednesday, the Thai News Agency said.<\/p>\n<p>Samak steered the People Power Party to victory in December 2007 in the first democratically held election since a bloodless coup the year before.<\/p>\n<p>But the veteran politician and former governor of Bangkok was accused of being a nominee of friend and former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose administration was mired in allegations of corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Samak also faced allegations of corruption, appealed a three-year prison sentence for defaming a deputy governor and dealt with an election commission decision that his party had committed fraud in the 2007 balloting and should be dissolved.<\/p>\n<p>His nine months in office ended last year with political crisis in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of protesters camped outside the government&#8217;s headquarters and blocked Samak from entering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, who was ousted from office last year for appearing on television cooking shows for payment, died Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,118],"tags":[2253,2250,2257,2256,2252,2248,2254],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-hot","tag-minister-samak-sundaravej","tag-samak-sundaravej","tag-samak-sundaravej-dies","tag-samak-sundaravej-dead","tag-thai-prime-minister-samak","tag-thai-prime-minister-samak-sundaravej","tag-thai-samak-sundaravej"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}