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Bar raised on lese majeste issue
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 09/01/2012
» So, the lese majeste law, or Section 112 of the Criminal Code, will remain intact, at least for now and in the foreseeable future or as long as the nine political parties keep their word after reaching a gentlemen's agreement to leave it alone during a special Parliament meeting on Friday.
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Heavyweights battle over lese majeste law
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 16/01/2012
» The battle of wits over whether the lese majeste law or Section 112 of the Criminal Code should be amended or left untouched has intensified in academic circles now that all political parties, including the Democrats and Pheu Thai, have reached a consensus that they will leave the law as it is.
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Public debt and Thaksin's oil
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 23/01/2012
» One of the most controversial issues at the moment, which has taken on the life of a conspiracy by opponents of ousted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, concerns a plan to sell 2% of the Finance Ministry's stakes in PTT Plc and Thai Airways International to the government-controlled Vayupak Fund in order to free PTT and THAI from the status of being state enterprises and to reduce the government's public debt so it can borrow more.
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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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Nitirat's twist on 'freedom of expression'
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 06/02/2012
» Supporters of the Nitirat group have turned up one after the other to give moral support to the group in its latest face-off with Thammasat University's administration over its decision last week to ban the group from using the campus to campaign for the amendment of Article 112 of the Criminal Code _ the lese majeste law.
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One small step for Yingluck
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 13/02/2012
» As far as the government is concerned, the 10-million baht cost of staging the "Love Thailand, Move Thailand Forward" gala dinner at Government House on Friday was worth the cost despite all the criticism of bad taste, waste of taxpayers' money, a PR stunt, etc from a host of critics.
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'Tis not the season to be jolly for Yingluck
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 20/02/2012
» Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra posted a message on her Facebook page last Friday wishing Thais would treat one another with honour regardless of sex, race or origin and to respect human dignity. She said she felt saddened because Thai people treated one another with contempt and took sexual advantage for personal or political gains. Then she pleaded for cooperation and understanding of the role of women and vowed to restore the honour and dignity of Thai women.
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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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Thaksin leaves no doubt: Change is inevitable
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 05/03/2012
» Political confrontation is inevitable and whether it will descend into violence or not depends on how far the Pheu Thai Party wants to go in rewriting the charter.
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If the troops go, who protects the innocent?
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 12/03/2012
» As Islamic insurgents stepped up attacks against security forces in neighbouring Narathiwat province _ killing five soldiers in a roadside bomb attack and wounding 12 others in other raids on army outposts on Wednesday and Friday respectively _ about 100 members of 16 civic and student groups staged a protest in front of Rajabhat University's Yala campus on Thursday against the alleged rape of a teenage Muslim girl by a young soldier.
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