Who will be Thailand’s next prime minister? Billionaire Dhanin Chearavanont of CP Group might have an idea

Dhanin Chearavanont has spent six decades building the Charoen Pokphand Group (CP) into a global empire spanning everything from agriculture and food to telecommunications and e-commerce – not to mention property development, automobiles, and finance – but he may have even greater ambitions in the political arena.Since his abrupt resignation last month as chairman of CP Foods, the conglomerate’s core business, speculation in Thailand has been rife that Dhanin will either be named as a senator –…