Even the government's 'good news' is badly handled
Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was supposed to have blown her top during a special meeting of Cabinet members on June 7 at Baan Phitsanulok. Thai Post Daily said she was very upset that ministers and their assistants had left her to defend the...
The complications of the Yingluck-Thawil confrontation
Expect a drawn-out battle between Premier Yingluck Shinawatra and Thawil Pliensri, the former secretary-general of the National Security Council (NSC), who is demanding to be reinstated in his former post. The Administration Court last week ruled...
A country with no plan B for major undertakings
Energy Minister Pongsak Ruktapongpisal says the power blackout in all 14 southern provinces on May 21 was "unavoidable". He says the cause was a natural occurrence: lightning striking a high-voltage transmission line that supplied power...
Why are they talking about an early election?
Political pundits seem to have come to the conclusion that the ruling Pheu Thai Party is gunning for an early election, perhaps before the end of the year, or even earlier.
Schools: it's the quality that counts, not the size
When the news first broke, the message was deceptively blunt and terse: schools with fewer than 60 students would be closed. End of story.
Premier's intervention wont resolve BOT-Finance rift
Bank of Thailand (BOT) chairman Virabongsa Ramangkura has urged Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to intervene in the currency dispute between the central bank and the Finance Ministry.
Danger: Politicians try to demolish independent agencies
A new war is brewing between the Pheu Thai Party and the Constitutional Court - a new round of confrontation that could decide the fate of independent agencies in the Constitution, which is the subject of a proposed amendment by the ruling party.
Democrats can't win without major internal reform
"The Democrat Party isn't a party of the capitalists. Nor is it a party for the people. It belongs to a group of senior party executives," said a political-science academic the other day, after a small uproar erupted over the...
PM must get a grip on the southern 'peace process'
Who's in charge of the "peace process" in the deep South?
Violence reduction pledge can enable peace talks
National Security Council (NSC) chief Paradorn Pattanatabutr says last Friday's killings of the deputy governor and assistant governor of Yala province in a bomb attack by southern insurgents would not affect the ongoing "peace...
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