Thursday, 26 November 2009

Late former Prime Minister Samak Sundarave died of cancer Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. He was 74



FILE - In this September 9, 2008 file photo, Thailand's then Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, right, is greeted by a woman villager as he tours a market before holding the cabinet meeting in Udon Thani province, northeastern Thailand. Samak, a firebrand politician who briefly served as prime minister but was ousted for simultaneously getting income as host of a popular TV cooking show, died of cancer Tuesday. He was 74. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong, File) (CAAI News Media)


An unidentified woman mourner gestures as she pays her last respect to the portrait of late former Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej during a bathing rites ceremony at a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. Samak, a firebrand right-wing politician and TV cooking show host who served a brief and tumultuous term last year as Thailand's prime minister, died of cancer Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. He was 74. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong) (CAAI News Media)


An unidentified woman mourner touches the hand of late former Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej during a bathing rites ceremony at a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. Samak, a firebrand right-wing politician and TV cooking show host who served a brief and tumultuous term last year as Thailand's prime minister, died of cancer Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. He was 74. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong) (CAAI News Media)


Two Thai mourners pass the portrait of late former Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej during a bathing rites ceremony at a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. Samak, a firebrand right-wing politician and TV cooking show host who served a brief and tumultuous term last year as Thailand's prime minister, died of cancer Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. He was 74. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong) (CAAI News Media)


Mourners pay their last respect to late former Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, center, during a bathing rites ceremony at a Buddhist temple in Bangkok, Thailand Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009. Samak, a firebrand right-wing politician and TV cooking show host who served a brief and tumultuous term last year as Thailand's prime minister, died of cancer Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. He was 74. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong) (CAAI News Media)

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