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The election aftermath will be a big mess to clean up
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 03/02/2014
» The government managed to stage on schedule the election that it had wanted so badly with the dream that it would usher the Pheu Thai Party into office for another term. But yesterday's election was one that this country has never seen the likes of before, and it will go down in history as the most violent, most messy and most opposed by the people.
Surapong’s recipe for more trouble
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 06/12/2013
» Thursday night’s candlelight ceremony at Sanam Luang to celebrate His Majesty the King’s 86th birthday led by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was shown live by all free-to-air TV stations and attracted a big crowd, mostly government officials - but it was less than half the story.
Government offers dubious excuses for rice price cut
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 24/06/2013
» Here is some simple arithmetic. Suppose you are a miller and you pay a farmer 15,000 baht for a tonne of paddy and, after the grain is milled, you sell the produce at 10,000 baht. Your loss is 5,000 baht, which is simple and straightforward.
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.
Highlights of the Week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 16/11/2012
» The political atmosphere is steadily heating up in the lead-up to the anti-government rally by the Pitak Siam group at the Royal Plaza on Nov 24-25, with the opposing sides stepping up their war of words and litigation and more outsiders joining the fray.
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.