What is Chamlong really up to?
February 20, 2006 - IT'S ABOUT self-redemption, Chamlong watchers say.

EDITORIAL: How long can we go on like this?
February 19, 2006 - The PM’s troubles have become those of the nation, and the potential damage makes the tax his family allegedly failed to pay seem trivial

PM-CHAMLONG: Thaksin’s mentor may join protests
February 19, 2006 - PM’s erstwhile mentor set to announce his position today

1m cards to tell PM to quit
February 16, 2006 - Thammasat student union confident it will get 50,000 needed to launch proceedings

ANTI-THAKSIN CAMPAIGN: One million postcards to tell Thaksin to step down
February 15, 2006 - Midnight University will launch a campaign on Saturday to get 1 million people to send postcards to Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra asking him to step down.

IMPEACHMENT PETITION: 10,000 ink drive to oust Thaksin
February 14, 2006 - Thammasat student union confident it will get 50,000 needed to launch proceedings

ANALYSIS: Samak commits political suicide
February 14, 2006 - The former Bangkok governor has only himself to blame for destroying his political future by attacking Prem

ANALYSIS: PM could stay, but at what price to society?
February 14, 2006 - Based on his posturing in recent days, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra seems to be giving Thais a choice: they are either with him or against him. And he doesn’t appear to care whether what he is doing polarises society in a way never seen in recent his

LETTER FROM ROYAL PLAZA: And the crowd roared ‘ok-pai’
February 13, 2006 - We, “the stupid mobsters” as the prime minister calls us, were faced with an uncertain situation on Saturday.

ANTI-THAKSIN RALLY: Coalition gains momentum
February 12, 2006 - The new Royal Plaza alliance of senators and civic groups has boosted the credibility of the movement to oust Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and produced an array of new issues from free trade to human rights violations and the plight of the rural poor

LEADERSHIP CRISIS: PM puts charter on the table
February 12, 2006 - Proposal dismissed as a delay tactic by ‘cornered’ premier

ANALYSIS: The going gets tougher for Thaksin
February 12, 2006 - During his radio show on February 4, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra insisted that his children had urged him to sell Shin Corp stocks for the sake of his political pursuits and free him from criticism over conflicts of interest and what not.

Lecturers rally to the defence of Chula dean
February 08, 2006 - Lecturers at Chulalongkorn University have threatened to resign if the dean of the political-science faculty, Professor Amara Pongsapich, is forced to step down.”

PM wields carrot and stick
February 08, 2006 - Sondhi and others land on police blacklist, but Thaksin makes overtures to other critics”

ANALYSIS: It’s a ticket to paradise, you idiots!
February 08, 2006 - How’s that? I told you last week they were not going to pay and it’s a waste of time. Painful as it is, I’m beginning to agree with our prime minister: We are a bunch of idiots. I mean stop worrying about the country’s coffers and mind your own business.”

Activists, Opposition attack PM on all fronts
February 07, 2006 - Activist groups and the opposition Democrat Party are staging a multi-pronged attack on the embattled prime minister with bids yesterday for criminal investigations and a censure debate over his family’s controversial tax-free share sale of Shin Corp. Two advocacy groups filed a number of complaints yesterday calling on relevant agencies to investigate the suspicious link between Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and Ample Rich Investments, an offshore venture located in the British Virgin Islands tax haven”

ANALYSIS: Sondhi and friends fail to draw blood
February 07, 2006 - Media maverick Sondhi Limthong-kul claimed victory in his battle against Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra after a rally at the Royal Plaza last Saturday drew nearly 100,000 people – the largest anti-government protest since the bloody May 1992 demonstrations against the Suchinda Kraprayoon regime.

ANALYSIS: Toppling Thaksin at any price is not a viable option
February 07, 2006 - Even in the face of the biggest threat to his political leadership last week, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was as defiant as ever. And in case some people had doubts about his political resolve, Thaksin made it clear that only His Majesty the King would have the last word.

MASS PROTEST: Anti-Thaksin alliance grows
February 06, 2006 - Powerful groups gear up for political fight involving Thais from all walks. Civic groups and academics hope to use the political “wake-up” call from the marathon rally led by media tycoon Sondhi Limthongkul to spur political reform and oust Thaksin Shinawatra as prime minister.

Wang Nam Yom starts to apply pressure
February 06, 2006 - Labour Minister Somsak Thepsuthin vowed yesterday to remain working for Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, but was said to have begun bargaining for another Cabinet position and more power inside Thai Rak Thai. Political pundits had speculated that Somsak might lead his Wang Nam Yom faction out of the ruling party and resign from Cabinet at the height of the anti-Thaksin protest on Saturday night.

ANALYSIS: More guile is going to be needed to topple this heavyweight
February 06, 2006 - To topple a prime minister who claims the backing of 19 million voters surely requires more than 100,000 people chanting emotionally for his ouster for a day. But opponents of Thaksin Shinawatra will take heart in the fact that his once-impregnable fortress has been seriously breached.

LETTER FROM ROYAL PLAZA: Carnival atmosphere, but a serious intent
February 06, 2006 - The enthusiasm began in the morning. We were all fired up on hearing PM Thaksin Shinawatra deliver his weekly radio address. An angry friend called me to say, “Have you heard that? How dare he say if the King whispered to him he would resign?” I'm sure most of the approximately 100,000 strong crowd who gathered at the rally were rallied even more by his speech. Demonstrators gradually arrived at the square and by late afternoon, a section of the square was fully occupied with protesters.

EDITORIAL: Media blackout fails to hide truth
February 06, 2006 - The Thaksin administration is behaving more and more like the corrupt, military regimes of old. The government's imposition of a media blackout on the anti-Thaksin rally belies its growing vulnerability