• THAILAND

  Highlights of the week

  Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 08/06/2012

  » The main news focus this week was undoubtedly the conflict between the Constitution Court and the parliament over the court’s order that the parliament suspend the final reading of the constitution amendment bill, which was scheduled for today,Friday, until the bench has ruled on the constitutionality of the amendment process.

• OPINION

  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. 　

• OPINION

  We can't afford another political crisis

  Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 06/08/2013

  » The war drums have been sounded by both the pro- and anti-Thaksin camps ahead of the parliamentary debate starting Wednesday on the contentious amnesty bill and, probably, the even more explosive reconciliation bill, which would absolve all wrongdoers in political conflicts, including the Man in Dubai

• OPINION

  PM shrugs off court's blow to his pride

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 29/08/2022

  » The Constitutional Court's decision to suspend prime minister Prayut Chan-o-cha from performing his duties appears to have dealt a big blow to him even though deputy spokeswoman Tipanan Sirichana has insisted he is still the de jure prime minister pending the court's ruling on his term in office expected within a month.

• OPINION

  Spare 'Toon' from carping over his run

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 27/12/2021

  » With the dark shadow of the Omicron variant looming, the year 2022, which is just a week away, was never going to be a year of untold happiness to begin with for most people in the world, including Thailand.

• OPINION

  Army's role in boxing a shady affair

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 30/03/2020

  » Lumpinee Boxing Stadium, located on the grounds of the Royal Thai Army Sports Centre on Ram Intra road in Bangkok's suburbs, has earned a bad reputation after being blamed for a Covid-19 cluster which has, so far, infected more than 50 people with the deadly disease.

• OPINION

  Bad judgement is risking lives

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 06/04/2020

  » Yet another mistake. And, again, it involves an army officer. Maj-Gen Kosol Chujai, a specialist attached to the Office of the Defence Permanent Secretary, who was assigned to help health officials with the screening of arriving passengers at Suvarnabhumi Airport, let 152 arriving Thai passengers go home on Friday night after they protested and refused to enter quarantine at state facilities.

• OPINION

  Even hand needed in share cases

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 24/06/2019

  » The ongoing tit-for-tat game which is being played out in the Constitutional Court between the opposition Future Forward Party (FFP) and the Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP), the core government party, is typical of Thailand's gutter politics whereby opposing parties are always at each other's throat until one of them is choked to death. Because of the high political stakes involved, it appears that there will be no compromises and no prisoners taken.

• OPINION

  One slip, and charter row erupts again

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 16/09/2013

  » With its majority in the House, the support of its allies in the Senate and the fact that both the Senate and House speakers are its own men, the ruling Pheu Thai Party thought its charter amendment bill seeking to overhaul the composition of the upper chamber would sail through, with the opposition providing only nuisance value along the way.

• OPINION

  Leaders' resignations echo PAD's decline

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 26/08/2013

  » The anti-Thaksin group People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) has been anything but a potent political force that could pose a real threat to the government since it made the cardinal mistake of calling on voters to "Vote No" in the general election in 2011, which saw the Pheu Thai Party romp to victory with 265 House seats over the Democrat Party's 159.

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