By Nirmal Ghosh, Thailand Correspondent

BANGKOK: Former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra, a fugitive from the law in his own country, arrived in Phnom Penh yesterday to become a special economics adviser to the Cambodian Prime Minister.

He arrived on board his private jet at about 10am local time at an air force base next to the international airport where he was greeted by Prime Minister Hun Sen.

Thaksin was taken to a house provided for him in a luxury downtown enclave in the capital. He had dinner with Mr Hun Sen last night, and is scheduled to deliver a lecture to some 300 Cambodian civil servants tomorrow.

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