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  • THAILAND

    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.

  • THAILAND

    Weekly highlights

    Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 09/03/2012

    » Southern insurgents stepped up their attacks on the security forces this week, killing six soldiers and wounding 13; in Japan, Prime Minister Yingluck assured Japanese investors that last year's devastating flood will not be repeated and their factories are now safe; and the government has started the process to compensate victims of political violence.

  • THAILAND

    Highlights of the Week

    Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 31/08/2012

    » Defence Minister Sukumpol Suwannatat appears to have resolved his conflict in his ministry with his abrupt transfer of three generals. But Science and Technology Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi is caught in a three-way war of words with the City Hall and a group of water experts on the flood prevent plan. In the deep South, militants went on bomb-planting spree to mark their national day.

  • THAILAND

    Highlights of the week

    Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 18/01/2013

    » The Bangkok governor election has been set for Sunday March 3, and front-running and underdog aspirants alike have already started their door-knocking campaign to woo the city’s voters, even before registration of candidates opens.

  • THAILAND

    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.

  • THAILAND

    Weekly highlights

    Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 18/05/2012

    » Tomorrow, May 19, is the second anniversary of the violent culmination of the political protests in Bangkok in April and May 2010 during which 89 people died in the capital - red-shirt supporters, soldiers, police, journalists and medical volunteers and other innocent people caught up in the turmoil.

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