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Dems have tough decision ahead
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 08/04/2019
» Having suffered a humiliating defeat in the March 24 elections, the Democrat Party appears to arrived at a point where it has to make an important decision about which political path it wants to follow -- whether to join the pro-Prayut Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP)'s coalition alliance, or to play the role of an independent opposition.
There's always the Thaksin billions
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 24/01/2014
» The Jan 25 deadline promised by the government for the payment of rice farmers who have pledged their rice crops as far back as October is likely to be missed again.
Pheu Thai on a knife-edge over charter bill
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 30/09/2013
» As expected, the constitutional amendment bill concerning the composition of the Senate easily sailed through the final reading of the joint session of the Senate and House of Representatives on Saturday.
One slip, and charter row erupts again
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 16/09/2013
» With its majority in the House, the support of its allies in the Senate and the fact that both the Senate and House speakers are its own men, the ruling Pheu Thai Party thought its charter amendment bill seeking to overhaul the composition of the upper chamber would sail through, with the opposition providing only nuisance value along the way.
The 'mole' is inside the government
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 07/06/2013
» Deputy Prime Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi is no stranger to controversy. It could be said he has a penchant for courting controversy, and a tongue so sharp and quick that even bad-mouthed fresh market vendors envy him.
Eight years after Tak Bai, and no closer to peace
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 25/10/2012
» Today is the eighth anniversary of the Tak Bai tragedy – one of the worst blunders ever committed by the military in the restive deep South.
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.
Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 17/08/2012
» The power struggle in the Senate ended with the elected members putting their candidate in the speaker's seat, while in the House the government was grilled by the Democrats over a lack of transparency and corruption in the spending of funds for mega-projects such as the rice pledging scheme and flood rehabilitation programme, and in the far South the violence continued unabated.