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Why wake a sleeping tiger?
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 21/12/2012
» Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung has always been the odd man out in the ruling Pheu Thai Party. His recent, sensible advice to drop the plan to rewrite the constitution for the sake of ensuring the government's political stability has been foolishly shot down.
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Banharn on sticky path as latest 'kao jai'
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 04/01/2013
» It is a tradition for many people to make a wish for the New Year to come, or express good wishes to their loved ones, friends and even foes at this time. Chart Thai Pattana Party advisory chairman Banharn Silpa-archa made a wish too on this fun-filled and happy occasion, and made a commitment as well.
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Forest issue takes a serious turn for the worse
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 12/11/2012
» Can we kiss goodbye to our forests? Green groups won the first round when they forced Natural Resources and Environment Minister Preecha Rengsomboonsuk to halt the issuance of land documents in certain protected areas.
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Chalerm may have got off on the wrong foot
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 22/10/2012
» 'Reconciliation or challenging for a fight?" So read the headline of Thai Rath's editorial on Saturday, Oct 20, in direct reference to Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung's staging of a "deliberative dialogue" session in Nakhon Ratchsima province next Sunday in a bid to build consensus towards national reconciliation.
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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.
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Yongyuth's political future uncertain
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 25/09/2012
» Despite all the legal and political opinions in support of the legal status of Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was unwilling to take the risk of allowing him to chair this week's Tuesday cabinet meeting.
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Bhichai Rattakul's unrealised plan
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 27/08/2012
» Although former Democrat leader Bhichai Rattakul retired from active politics decades ago, he was frustrated by the colour-coded political impasse of the last few years and tried to do something about it - but his own party blocked his efforts.
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Pheu Thai's in tactical retreat
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 07/08/2012
» The Pheu Thai Party is not giving up its attempts to revamp the constitution and bring about its sown version of national reconciliation, even though it has decided to put the four reconciliation bills and the charter amendment bill on hold for the time being.
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No shame about lying
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 24/09/2012
» When parliament president Somsak Kiatsuranont said on Thursday that he might visit China to attend a provincial trade exposition instead of taking a "study" tour of western Europe which was heavily criticised by the press, I was foolishly misled into thinking that he really felt guilty about spending seven million baht of taxpayers' money on a junket which includes watching an English Premier League soccer match.
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Where are the promised public hearings on reconciliation?
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 29/05/2012
» It looks as if we were all duped about the promised public hearings on reconciliation. The reconciliation bill was instead rushed to the parliament and is set to be debated on the same time that many world leaders are in Bangkok for the World Economic Forum.
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