• 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

  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 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.

• THAILAND

  Highlights of the week

  Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 12/10/2012

  » Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapriom remains tightlipped on goverment-to-government (G-to-G) rice deals, claiming the details are secret, as the Transport Ministry is asked to help provide storage space for this harvest's crop. In Bangkok the "sandbag row" was supposed to be settled at a meeting on Friday between City Hall and the Water and Flood Management Commission. And more violence in the deep South.

• THAILAND

  Highlights of the week

  Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 29/06/2012

  » Nasa finally cancelled its climate research project in Thailand but the squabble over the issue between the government and the opposition is not over yet and may drag on. The reconciliation bills are again back in the news, with House Speaker Somsak Kiatsuranont suggesting that they should be withdrawn from the parliament.

• THAILAND

  Weekly highlights

  Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 12/04/2012

  » As the country heads into the Songkran celebration an 8.6 magnitude quake off Indonesia set off tsunami alarms across the Indian Ocean -- including six southern coastal provinces in Thailand, where tens of thousands of residents and tourists fled to high ground, temporarily spoiling the festive mood. But not for Thaksin's supporters in the Northeast, a few hundred of whom went to Vientiane to greet him.

• THAILAND

  Weekly highlights

  Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 11/05/2012

  » The debate on the lese majeste law was revived, with fresh calls for legal amendments, following the sudden death of convicted offender Ah Kong. The rising cost of living remains a topical issue, with the Commerce Ministry finally backtracking on its claim there is no problem, as the government moves to freeze prices. And the long delayed computer tablets for schools deal was finally inked.

• 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.

• THAILAND

  Weekly highlights

  Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 24/02/2012

  » The Four Seasons Hotel saga will probably shift from the social network gossip arena to the courtroom now that defamation complaints have been lodged with the police by the prime minister's legal team. Parliamentary debates on the charter rewrite have started and it is expected that the government will win again, after its two executive financial decrees were also endorsed by the Constitution Court.

• THAILAND

  Weekly highlights

  Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 02/03/2012

  » Nitirat group leader Worajet Pakeerat was punched on the face by two brothers who, on their surrender to the police, said they were opposed to the group’s stated aims, to have the lese majeste law changed. Supporters and opponents of charter change began gearing up for a new showdown as the parliament started charter rewriting proceedings.

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