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Will Yingluck be allowed to leave?
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 18/07/2014
» The big question now is: Will Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha, head of the National Council for Peace and Order, retract the decision allowing former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra to leave the country for a European tour from July 20-Aug 10 now the National Anti-Corruption Commission has decided to indict her for malfeasance in office for gross negligence in overseeing the rice pledging scheme?
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Yingluck must apologise to the people
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 12/11/2013
» The mood of quite a few protesters has clearly gone beyond the blanket amnesty issue. The shouts of "Yingluck get out" that resonated at every protest site – Samsen railway station, Silom, Asoke intersection and Ratchadamnoen – along with the ear-deafening whistle blowing are indicative of the mood.
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Come clean on Yingluck
News, Editorial, Published on 12/09/2017
» The official version of the "great escape" by ex-prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra is coming apart. More importantly, the public is rapidly losing confidence in the government's ability to reconstruct what occurred -- or concoct a credible account.
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Yingluck gone but populism sticks around
News, Anchalee Kongrut, Published on 30/08/2017
» Ousted premier Yingluck Shinawatra has gone -- some might say -- with the wind. And the way she fled the country was so sly, like a Hollywood film noir where the femme fatale coolly sashays out of the scene having outwitted everyone.
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Overcoming the old splits, post-Yingluck
News, Published on 09/10/2017
» A post-Yingluck Shinawatra Thailand is not a reconciled Thailand, and nor will it be if her Pheu Thai Party ceases to exist.
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A fight Yingluck knows she can't win
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 17/11/2015
» A war of words is being fought between the government, represented by Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam, and former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, represented by her legal team.
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Yingluck's fight or flee dilemma
News, Published on 16/02/2015
» Speculation that former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra may be seeking political refuge abroad carries many political overtones, according to The Nation Weekly.
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OAG gets a sudden spurt of energy
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 23/12/2014
» Out of the blue, the Office of the Attorney-General felt the urge to call an urgent meeting of the joint panel of the OAG and the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) this Thursday, Christmas Day, to discuss the rice pledging case against former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
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Not only protesters, the farmers too
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 24/12/2013
» The festive season is already here with the New Year just a week away and many office workers anxiously anticipating their year-end bonus. Even government officials are to get a bonus – thanks to the extraordinary generosity of the government and despite the fact that it is broke.
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2011 flood lessons go unheeded
Oped, Danny Marks, Published on 25/03/2020
» Almost 10 years ago, the Thai government faced another huge crisis and unnatural disaster: the 2011 floods which killed over 800 and caused over US$45 billion (1.5 trillion baht) in damage. The damage and losses would have been significantly lower if the Yingluck Shinawatra government had responded more effectively. While the responses needed to the coronavirus certainly differ from a mega-flood, there are numerous lessons that the current Prayut Chan-o-cha government can learn from the mistakes made during the floods and thus how to best handle a crisis. But have they?
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