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Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 21/12/2012
» Despite the strong possibility the government may not get the minimum 24 million votes needed in a referendum to rewrite the entire constitution, it appears determined to push ahead with the planned plebiscite.
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Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 07/12/2012
» Thais across the country turned out in force to celebrate HM the King's birthday on Wednesday; the unrest in the far South takes a turn for the worse with two teachers killed and one seriously wounded in a matter of two weeks; and a three-day blackout in Koh Samui and Koh Phangan drove most tourists away before electricity supplies were resurrected on Friday morning.
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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.
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Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 26/10/2012
» Cabinet is undergoing a major facelift just ahead of the looming censure debate, although Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra denied it was a move to pre-empt the opposition's onslaught on certain vulnerable ministers.
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Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 05/10/2012
» The approach of tropical storm Gaemi and the possibility of another major flood, or not, is dominating the headlines.
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Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 28/09/2012
» The political future of Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit, who is also interior minister, hangs in the balance with pressure being applied both inside the party and outside for him to resign from political office.
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Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 21/09/2012
» The final report on the political turbulance in April and May 2010 was released by Kanit na Nakorn's truth commission and, as anticipated, was heavily criticised, especially by red-shirts and the Pheu Thai Party; and Parliament President Somsak Kiatsuranont was spotlighted for using seven million baht of taxpayers' money to take a large group of his staff and pro-government media people on a junket to Europe.
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Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 14/09/2012
» The unexpected flooding of Sukhothai municipality early this week rekindled nightmares of a repeat of last year's disastrous floods. On a brighter note, in the far South 93 militants gave themselves up, providing a glitter of hope for the government's staggering efforts to restore peace in the region, and a family at war over the death of a former movie star.
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Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 24/08/2012
» Former NSC chief Thawil Pliensri joined the war of words between the Department of Special Investigation and the army over the deaths of red-shirt protesters during the political strife two years ago, but Deputy Prime Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong stole the limelight when he admitted he lied about export growth figures.
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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.
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