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A businessman walks past signage meant to comfort passersby, set up around the burnt out Central World shopping mall, torched in May by Red Shirt anti-governmment protestors as they fled from an army advance on their occupied street camp, in Bangkok, Thailand. The repetitive words Everything will be OK are wrapped around construction screening as work continues to restore the huge shopping center, a task that will not be completed for a number of years. This weekend, anti-government protesters have declared they will demonstrate to mark the four-year anniversary of the military coup that ousted former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra outside this shopping center.

The power of positive thinking

This signage really inspires confidence, doesn't it? Given the events of May, this corporate "message" seems like an invitation for more trouble.

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