By Thai Newsroom Reporters OVER 937,000 VOTERS have requested to go to the polls inside Thailand and outside one week before schedule, according to today’s (Jan.2) report of the Election Commission. A total of 937,061 eligible voters have filed their formal requests to cast their early votes on Feb.1 instead of Feb.8 which is
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