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The prime minister's new challenge
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 08/02/2012
» As head of a super committee charged with water resources management and flood prevention, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has accepted a real challenge which will prove against her critics that she is more than just a pretty face with a sense of high fashion.
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Weekly highlights
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 23/03/2012
» King Prajadhipok’s Institute has come under heavy fire over its controversial study and report on national reconciliation after the House reconciliation committee agreed by majority vote to adopt one of the recommendations. The committee chairman, 2006 coup leader General Sonthi Boonyatkalin, was also in the public spotlight when he refused a request to tell the whole truth about the overthrow of the Thaksin government.
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Prawat slaps Santi's face to try and save face
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 19/03/2012
» Face saving is an important issue in Thai society, especially if that face belongs to somebody who feels he or she has a high social status. That is why Social Development and Human Security Minister Santi Prompat got himself into trouble when he failed to save the face of Prawat Uttamote, a list MP of the Pheu Thai Party, when the former decided to remove the latter's elder sister, Panita Kamphu na Ayutthaya, the permanent secretary of social development and human security, from her post. She swapped posts with Wichien Chavalit, an adviser to the Prime Minister's Office, which is regarded as an inactive post.
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Weekly highlights
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 03/02/2012
» Students and lecturers at Thammasat University take sides as the clash of opinions over the lese majeste law fuelled by the Nitirat group's campaign splits the campus. In the far South, the government finally admitted that paramilitary rangers killed four innocent civilians and wounded five others. As for the flood prevention plan, there is no good news.
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'Big fish' can't see the forests
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 27/02/2012
» Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said in her weekly "Yingluck government meets the people" TV programme that her government would heed His Majesty the King's advice given to members of the Strategic Formulation Committee for Water Resources Management during an audience at Siriraj hospital on Friday.
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Weekly highlights
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 02/03/2012
» Nitirat group leader Worajet Pakeerat was punched on the face by two brothers who, on their surrender to the police, said they were opposed to the group’s stated aims, to have the lese majeste law changed. Supporters and opponents of charter change began gearing up for a new showdown as the parliament started charter rewriting proceedings.
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One small step for Yingluck
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 13/02/2012
» As far as the government is concerned, the 10-million baht cost of staging the "Love Thailand, Move Thailand Forward" gala dinner at Government House on Friday was worth the cost despite all the criticism of bad taste, waste of taxpayers' money, a PR stunt, etc from a host of critics.
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Ombudsman barking up the wrong tree
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 13/03/2012
» Although an increasing number of foreigners now own land in Thailand through nominees or their Thai spouses, the ombudsman's claim that foreigners now own one-third of the country is simply just not credible.
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Thongtong panel's 'no-case' decision a letdown
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 21/02/2012
» Barely three months after the inquiry into the alleged unusual wealth of Supoj Saplom began the team has thrown in the towel, ending the investigation and raising public suspicions about the government's sincerity in promising to deal harshly with the problem of corruption.
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Weekly highlights
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 16/03/2012
» The government says that there is a slim chance of a repeat of the 'big flood' this year but Japanese investors remain sceptical, wanting all the floodwalls and floodways promised by the government to protect their factories to be in place before the rains come.
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