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Conflicts over reform the new flashpoint
News, Published on 05/01/2012
» Leader of the Nitirat group Worachet Pakeerat, a lecturer at Thammasat University's Faculty of Law, talks to NATTAYA CHETCHOTIROS about the coming year in politics, the government-proposed charter amendment and the need to erase the bootprints of the 2006 coup.
Charter draft to take one year
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 03/01/2012
» Parliament president Somsak Kiatsuranont expects a new charter draft will be completed within a year and a referendum will decide if it should take effect.
Russia needs 'China-style' web controls: official
AFP, Published on 15/12/2011
» Russia needs Chinese-style government regulation of the Internet, a top official said Wednesday, after election protesters organised nationwide rallies through social networking sites.
Thaksin pardon, not floods, dominate news
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 17/11/2011
» For the first time in many weeks, politics overtook the floods in front page interest as a rumoured royal pardon for former PM Thaksin Shinawatra provoked an angry reaction.
Lightning attack
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 19/08/2011
» The Democrats aren't wasting any time in going after the new foreign minister for his alleged role in getting former PM Thaksin a visa to Japan.
Out with the new; in with the old
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 18/08/2011
» As promised, the Phue Thai party is making plans to push for the reinstatement of the 1997 constitution.
Icelanders hand in draft of world's first 'web' constitution
AFP, Published on 30/07/2011
» A group of 25 ordinary citizens on Friday presented to Iceland's parliamentary speaker a new constitution draft, which they compiled with the help of hundreds of others who chipped in online.
Messy legislation
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 26/11/2010
» Although both government-sponsored draft amendments passed their first reading yesterday, it was not parliament at its best
No claims of victory
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 24/11/2010
» PAD turnout outside parliament was low while inside, the government was attacked for being insincere but the opposition had little chance of getting what it wanted.
Taxing woes
Database, Published on 20/10/2010
» Cabinet approved a draft law for a "green tax" on all industries, to kick in by 2012; there is still some work to do but proposed rates are in the neighbourhood of 10,000 baht per tonne of waste water, 2,500 baht per tonne of emissions and 15 percent of 1,000 baht per tourist; Big Business enthusiastically welcomed the environmental tax proposal, but had a couple of teensy weensy little worries, hardly worth mentioning but still... such as about consumer resistance when they push the new taxes onto the public because no way will business absorb the costs; and also there's unfairness of, say, shops along the Chao Phraya dumping pollution and not having to pay any tax; also, there is concern over calling tourists "pollution"; but really, all in all, an excellent idea.