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In Praise of Yingluck’s Good Qualities?
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Bangkok
Opinion/ Analysis: Burin Kantabutra
Prime Minister Yingluck’s come in for so much criticism over her handling of the flooding that it’s easy to overlook her good qualities.To give a balanced view of her, I’d like to recognize some of them.
She’s managed to retain her sanity in a situation that would have driven me nuts. Her own party thinks so little...
Democrats Become the Band on the Run?
May 31st, 2011
Bangkok
Is it becoming clearer by the day the star studded power of Ms. Yingluck will overtake the current tradition of Democrat allied coalition power cobbled together by various parties…? Polls would have us believe that the recent trend of the Democrats in light of the uber- show stopping Yingluck is that they’re safely heading for opposition party status.
Say it ‘Aint so…...
Thaksin: The Reports of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Monday, May 3rd, 2010
“I’m Not a Ghost”…. and Other Related News
In a series of well reported phone calls and interviews it appears Thaksin Shinawatra isn’t dead after all and the reports of his death were perhaps greatly exaggerated, to quote a famous line.
Recently, he joked with reporters both here (Naya Jaikawang), and abroad, (the Straits Times) and had also conducted...
In An Urgent Decision
Monday, April 12, 2010
Bangkok
Thai Election Commission voted to request…
That the Constitutional Court…dissolve the Democrat Party due to accepting a possibly illegal campaign contribution from TPI Polene Plc., of nearly 260 million baht. TPI is a large petrochemical and cement conglomerate. The case will be considered by the Attorney General before a final resolution from the Constitutional...
