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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.
Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 07/12/2012
» Thais across the country turned out in force to celebrate HM the King's birthday on Wednesday; the unrest in the far South takes a turn for the worse with two teachers killed and one seriously wounded in a matter of two weeks; and a three-day blackout in Koh Samui and Koh Phangan drove most tourists away before electricity supplies were resurrected on Friday morning.
Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 21/09/2012
» The final report on the political turbulance in April and May 2010 was released by Kanit na Nakorn's truth commission and, as anticipated, was heavily criticised, especially by red-shirts and the Pheu Thai Party; and Parliament President Somsak Kiatsuranont was spotlighted for using seven million baht of taxpayers' money to take a large group of his staff and pro-government media people on a junket to Europe.
Weekly highlights
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 17/02/2012
» Government authorities were in unison, insisting the three bomb blasts in downtown Bangkok did not amount to terrorism because the devices were intended solely to kill unnamed foreign individuals - even though several Thais were hurt. In the parliament, there was bedlam on Thursday when Democrat MPs queried the prime minister about her "secret mission" at the Four Seasons Hotel last Wednesday.
Weekly highlights
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 13/01/2012
» Two street protests greeted the government this week with more to come soon and the government's plan for a two billion baht compensation package for victims of political violence seems to have backfired. But the "talk of the town" is the ear-bashing incident at Suvarnabhumi airport.