BANGKOK, Jan 11 – Anti-government protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban was voted Asia’s Person of the Year 2013 by the Asia Society.

The Asia Society website (http://asiasociety.org) announced that Mr Suthep, the People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) secretary general attracted 88 per cent of the vote, or nearly 116,000 votes in total, beating Malala Yousafzai, the female education rights activist from Pakistan.

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