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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.
Wrong election forecasts a lesson for pollsters
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 05/03/2013
» To err is human. But to err on the scale of the wrong predictions made for the Bangkok governor’s election by all but one of the major pollsters is not just an embarrassment, it's a disaster for their credibility.
Imprisoned red-shirts merely expendable pawns
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 01/02/2013
» It should not be surprising that the demand for amnesty for jailed red-shirt protesters has been given the cold shoulder by both the government and the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, because the government's political stability is deemed more important than the plight of the prisoners.
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.
Why wake a sleeping tiger?
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 21/12/2012
» Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung has always been the odd man out in the ruling Pheu Thai Party. His recent, sensible advice to drop the plan to rewrite the constitution for the sake of ensuring the government's political stability has been foolishly shot down.
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?
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.
Black clouds form over Kittiratt's export 'white lie'
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 27/08/2012
» Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong is suffocating under a deluge of harsh criticism for having admitted that he told a "white lie", as he terms it, about Thailand's export growth target this year in order to boost the confidence of investors. So another bashing from me is unnecessary.