• OPINION

  Channel 3 hiding behind 'public interest'

  Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 09/09/2014

  » The management of TV Channel 3 seems to have forgotten that about a decade ago Supinya Klangnarong, then a vocal activist of the NGO the Campaign for Media Reform was charged with criminal defamation by Shin Corp for alleged defamatory remarks she made at a seminar entitled "Five Years of Thai Rak Thai – Shin Corp Gets Richer".

• OPINION

  Govt leaves Thamanat sore to fester

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 16/09/2019

  » Deputy Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister Thamanat Prompow must have been a valuable asset of the government to justify both Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam coming to his defence over his criminal past in connection with a drug trafficking case in Australia about three decades ago and over his questionable educational background while other cabinet ministers keep their distance from the scandal.

• OPINION

  Pita's PM hopes hang on a miracle

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 10/07/2023

  » Judgement day for Pita Limjaroenrat's quest to become Thailand's 30th prime minister has been set for July 13, 19 and 20. The event is significant because, if Mr Pita is selected, Thailand may see unprecedented changes in the next four years if the campaign policies promised by the Move Forward Party are implemented, partially if not in their entirety.

• OPINION

  Road ahead for MFP full of uncertainty

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 29/05/2023

  » Given the majority of 313 House seats out of 500 won by the coalition parties led by the Move Forward Party (MFP), Pita Limjaroenrat, that party's prime ministerial candidate, should rightfully become Thailand's 30th prime minister.

• OPINION

  'Lese majeste' law hinders royalists too

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 01/11/2021

  » Cries for abolition of lese majeste, or Section 112 of the Criminal Code, and the release on bail of those held in prison on lese majeste charges are getting louder again, after a rally yesterday at Ratchaprasong intersection led by pro-democracy groups and anti-royalists.

• OPINION

  Sulak lese majeste case so absurd it hurts

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 16/10/2017

  » Well-known academic and social critic Sulak Sivaraksa is no stranger to lese majeste charges.

• OPINION

  Prawit's rose-tinted view of police corruption

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 19/06/2017

  » Gen Prawit Wongsuwon, deputy prime minister in charge of security affairs, took sick leave for about two weeks in mid-May. But it seems he has been away in the twilight zone for much longer, as he is totally in the dark about how some "lucrative" posts in the police force are traded.

• OPINION

  Media out to lunch as police whistle-blower calls

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 07/03/2016

  » Media organisations and academics, as well as anti-corruption advocacy groups, went full throttle against embattled news anchor Sorrayuth Suthassanachinda and Channel 3 last week. Meanwhile, the whistle-blowing by Adm Phajun Tamprateep, a former close aide to Privy Council president Prem Tinsulanonda, that revealed an unidentified general was involved in the "sale" of police positions ahead of the annual police reshuffle went largely unnoticed by the media.

• OPINION

  ICT minister went too far with cyber closure threat

  Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 07/05/2013

  » Pheu Thai Party people and the red-shirts are understandably angry with cartoonist Chai Ratchawat for his offensive remark about Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, but the ICT minister's threat to shutdown websites hosting any criticism of her is too much to swallow.

• THAILAND

  Highlights of the week

  Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 07/12/2012

  » Thais across the country turned out in force to celebrate HM the King's birthday on Wednesday; the unrest in the far South takes a turn for the worse with two teachers killed and one seriously wounded in a matter of two weeks; and a three-day blackout in Koh Samui and Koh Phangan drove most tourists away before electricity supplies were resurrected on Friday morning.

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