BANGKOK - Thirty candidates ranging from a firebrand politician to a former office-holder dubbed the "world's strongest minister" are in the race to be Bangkok's next governor.
Residents of the Thai capital will head to the polls on May 22 to choose a new governor for the first time in nine years.
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