EDITORIAL Titanic struggle to save democracy
Prem's casting of an advance ballot
is symbolically significant but shouldn't be seen as discouraging
SIDELINES Risks getting greater in high-stake power play
It was a severe blow to the government's attempt to list the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand on the stock exchange and spend the huge proceeds on ambitious projects. Most of all, it meant a big windfall had slipped from the grasp of self-serving politicians in power.
SUNDAY BRUNCH Not a pretty picture
Bangkok Senator Kaewsan Atibhodi is never at a loss for words on the way the Thaksin administration has run the country
WATCHDOG Post-poll scenarios don't raise hopes of a solution by ballot
The struggle between caretaker Premier Thaksin Shinawatra and his political opponents, grouped as the so-called People's Alliance for Democracy, seems to have become a do-or-die battle in the month since the former dissolved Parliament on February 24 in a bid to whitewash charges laid by critics.