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Deals with the devil
News, Postbag, Published on 26/07/2018
» If the junta's soiree to the Northeast is not blatant touting for popularity and eventual votes, I don't know what is.
Put meat on bike laws
News, Postbag, Published on 03/12/2016
» Re: "Children told not to drive motorbikes", (BP, Nov 30).
Niwattumrong reports to NPOMC
Online Reporters, Published on 23/05/2014
» Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan, former acting caretaker prime minister, and some other former cabinet ministers reported at the Royal Thai Army auditorium in Thewes area, Bangkok, on Friday morning in response to a summons by the junta's new National Peace and Order Maintaining Council (NPOMC).
Don't make Thailand a laughing stock
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 09/05/2014
» The Centre for the Administration of Peace and Order (Capo) seems under the delusion it is a super special governmental agency which is not bound by the Constitutional Court’s decisions, unlike all other governmental agencies, the parliament and the cabinet.
Sweet vindication as Thawil retakes NSC reins
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 29/04/2014
» Finally, Thawil Pliensri has his job back as secretary-general of the the National Security Council (NSC) – exactly 52 days after the Supreme Administrative Court upheld the lower court’s ruling for his reinstatement retroactively to Sept 30, 2011.
Chalerm: No foreigners at UDD rally
Online Reporters, Published on 04/04/2014
» Rumours that immigrant workers were being enlisted to join the red-shirt rally on Saturday to swell numbers were groundless, caretaker Labour Minister Chalerm Yubamrung said on Friday.
Court asked to halt Sehgal deportation
Online Reporters, Published on 07/03/2014
» An application for an injunction to halt the Centre for Maintaining Peace and Order's (CMPO) attempt to deport leading Indian businessman Satish Sehgal has been filed with the Civil Court.
Chalerm in charge
Voranai Vanijaka, Published on 20/02/2014
» Chalerm Yubamrung represents many undesirable things about Thai society, but he does get things done. Whether the things he gets done are desirable or not is, however, a matter of perspective.
Showdown? It's just window-dressing
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 18/02/2014
» The stage was supposedly set for a major showdown on Tuesday. What was not clear was whether it would be a make-or-break confrontation, or just another show of force by the two opposing forces, the Centre for Maintaining Peace and Order (CMPO) and the People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC).
PDRC blocks Yingluck's return to Govt House
Online Reporters, Published on 17/02/2014
» People's Democratic Reform Committee (PRDC) protesters on Monday joined another protest group in surrounding Government House to prevent caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's planned return to her office there.