Thailand's new parliament is set to elect Anutin Charnvirakul as prime minister Thursday, keeping the conservative in the top office after his party routed its election rivals with a nationalist campaign.
The Southeast Asian nation's next government will have to handle the fallout from the Middle East war, sluggish economic growth and lingering border tensions with neighbour Cambodia.
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