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Truth will soon emerge about Yaowapa
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 19/03/2013
» Speculation is rife that our charming Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra may lose her job for incorrectly declaring her assets regarding a loan transaction, and that a member of the Shinawatra clan is being groomed to take her place.
Slippery path to charter reform
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 14/01/2013
» Holding a referendum to gauge public opinion about a charter rewrite looks to be more complicated than the Pheu Thai Party had previously thought.
Referendum, really a piece of cake?
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 28/12/2012
» "A piece of cake!" a confident former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra told his adoring red-shirt followers when he described how easy it would be to get the people's approval in the planned referendum on rewriting the entire constitution during his video-linked address at Khao Yai last weekend.
Gearing up for a 'yes' vote
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 24/12/2012
» Deposed former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has given the government the go-ahead to proceed with the planned referendum to rewrite the 2007 constitution in its entirety, according to Noppadon Pattama, Thaksin's legal adviser and close aide.
Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 21/12/2012
» Despite the strong possibility the government may not get the minimum 24 million votes needed in a referendum to rewrite the entire constitution, it appears determined to push ahead with the planned plebiscite.
Surapong's motives questionable
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 06/11/2012
» Is Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul serious about letting the International Criminal Court (ICC) probe and judge the 2010 political violence in Bangkok? Or is this just part of an orchestrated plot by the Pheu Thai Party to discredit Democrat Party leader and former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva ahead of the censure debate scheduled at the end of the month?
Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 28/09/2012
» The political future of Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit, who is also interior minister, hangs in the balance with pressure being applied both inside the party and outside for him to resign from political office.
Tests of khlongs are also a test of Plodprasop
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 03/09/2012
» Residents of Lat Phrao, Bang Khen, Sai Mai, Chatuchak, Huai Khwang, Bang Phlat, Bangkok Yai, Thawi Watthana and Bang Khae should mark Sept 5-7 on their calendars or in their smart phones.
Change of Senate guard
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 20/08/2012
» When the junta-appointed charter drafters crafted the current constitution, they wanted to make sure that the establishment would have a say in the Senate and that it would not be controlled by politicians. So, the result of this scheming to maintain the status quo of the establishment was a 150-member Senate which is made up of one elected senator for each province with the rest appointed.
80 years without democracy
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 26/06/2012
» “80 years without democracy” was the slogan of the red-shirt United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship when marking the 80th anniversary of the change from absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy last Sunday, June 24.