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Rent-free home least of PM's woes
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 16/11/2020
» 'What's did I do wrong?" asked Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha recently in the wake of boisterous calls by opposition parties and anti-establishment protesters for him to step down.
Protesters must show more maturity
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 14/09/2020
» All eyes will focus on the protest this Saturday by anti-dictatorship students, albeit with a sense of uneasiness about whether the protest will be peaceful or whether it will lead to violence.
'Flash mob' leaves FFP with work to do
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 16/12/2019
» There were as many bystanders as party supporters among the few thousand people who converged in front of the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre and the Pathumwan skywalk on Saturday evening where the Future Forward Party (FFP) held its "flash mob" to test public response to its call for justice for the party after the Election Commission (EC) last week asked the Constitutional Court to dissolve the party over a 191-million-baht "loan" to the party by its leader, Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit.
PM's questions are on a journey to nowhere
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 13/11/2017
» In May, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha posed four questions to the public and invited them to leave written replies at Damrongtham centres throughout the country.
Election prospects take another knock
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 29/05/2017
» Earlier last week, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha told us the next election, which was to be held in accordance with the government's political roadmap, might be postponed if unrest is still prevalent.
Reform goes to waste under the NCPO
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 11/04/2016
» It's been two years of wasted time for national reforms since the May 22, 2014 coup by the National Council for Peace and Order.
'Big Brother' up against rare political alliance
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 08/03/2016
» It's not often the two arch political rivals, the Democrat and Pheu Thai parties, see eye-to-eye on a controversial political issue.
Waiting for the 'good guy'
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 05/01/2016
» In his nationwide weekly address last Friday, which was also New Year’s Day, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said he would reward himself this year by becoming a "good guy", less talkative and less aggressive with the media.
Finally, an end in sight to the Meechai conundrum
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 05/10/2015
» We should know today whether Meechai Ruchupan, an adviser to the National Council for Peace and Order and a veteran constitution writer, will accept the offer -- or invitation -- of Prime Minister and NCPO leader Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha to chair the new 21-member Constitution Drafting Committee.
Wissanu's right, it's a 'weird' idea
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 22/09/2015
» Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam, supposedly the government’s top legal mind, has come up with a "weird" (in his own words) idea which has quickly earned him more foes than friends.