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Pheu Thai needs to gauge red shirt emotions
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 30/04/2012
» Last Thursday's visit to Ban Si Sao Theves by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and three of her four deputies _ Yongyuth Wichaidit, Kittirat Na-Ranong and Gen Yutthasak Sasiprapa _ to perform a rod nam dam hua ceremony for Privy Council president Prem Tinsulanonda offended quite a few red shirts who strongly feel the prime minister's gesture amounts to a kowtowing to the amataya elitist clique represented by the retired general.
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Lonely voices still seeking justice
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 20/04/2012
» Two people from opposite sides of the colour-coded political divide who each lost a loved one in the May 2010 political violence in Bangkok ironically share a common view in opposing the reconciliation plan now being pushed by Pheu Thai Party and fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
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Ah Kong's legacy is to inspire a wider debate
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 14/05/2012
» It should come as no surprise that the government does not want to touch the lese majeste law _ Section 112 of the Criminal Code _ following the sudden death by liver cancer of convicted lese majeste offender Ampon (Ah Kong) Tangnoppakul, alias Uncle SMS, in Bangkok Prison Hospital on May 8.
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Communication blame-game helps no one
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 30/01/2012
» The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration came under heavy fire by Pheu Thai ministers over its alleged foot dragging in implementing flood prevention projects when the cabinet met last Tuesday. At the meeting, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra urged all relevant agencies responsible for flood prevention to start working immediately and to show some results in two weeks time, otherwise the budgets already allocated to them would be recalled.
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Weekly highlights
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 03/02/2012
» Students and lecturers at Thammasat University take sides as the clash of opinions over the lese majeste law fuelled by the Nitirat group's campaign splits the campus. In the far South, the government finally admitted that paramilitary rangers killed four innocent civilians and wounded five others. As for the flood prevention plan, there is no good news.
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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.
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No more blame games, please
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 23/02/2012
» Now that the government appears to have full powers to manage water resources, it must take full responsibility and not try to pass the blame to others if there is another flood this year, or any year.
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'Big fish' can't see the forests
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 27/02/2012
» Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said in her weekly "Yingluck government meets the people" TV programme that her government would heed His Majesty the King's advice given to members of the Strategic Formulation Committee for Water Resources Management during an audience at Siriraj hospital on Friday.
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Reforestation, or tree farms?
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 28/02/2012
» The government says it will heed His Majesty the King's advice on reforestation, but the three billion baht budget allocated to reforest seven million rai of land over five years is so small that it is questionable the project can be carried out effectively.
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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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