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  • OPINION

    Paranoia wreaking economic havoc

    News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 20/07/2020

    » We have taken pride in the fact that Thailand has not had any local transmission of Covid-19 for more than 50 consecutive days and that our success in stemming the spread of the virus has won worldwide praise.

  • OPINION

    Time to back virus control effort

    News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 23/03/2020

    » Bangkok Metropolitan Administration has made the right decision, belatedly though.

  • OPINION

    Marium's death a timely warning

    News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 19/08/2019

    » Many people may not care about the tragic death of Marium, an eight-month-old orphaned baby dugong. Marium died on Saturday from an infection exacerbated by bits of plastic lining her stomach. She was found beached in Krabi province in April, rescued and then treated by veterinarians of the Department of Marine and Coastal Resources with the hope that, one day, when she was strong enough, she would be able to return to the wild to be with the other dugongs in the sea around Libong island in Trang province.

  • OPINION

    Selfless heroism, hazing idiocy

    Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 23/02/2016

    » Remember that beautiful story of the Krabi fisherman who instinctively went to the rescue of two elderly Norwegian bird watchers stuck in thick mud, throwing himself face down in the muck so they could free themselves.

  • OPINION

    Judge NCPO by its performance, not by opinion polls

    News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 25/08/2014

    » Bangkok University's Krungthep Poll came out last week with the latest opinion survey on the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) showing it had scored 6.9 points out of 10 for its first three-month performance. By comparison, for that same time period, the Yingluck government scored 4.49 points, and the Abhisit government 3.82 points.

  • THAILAND

    Weekly highlights

    Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 12/04/2012

    » As the country heads into the Songkran celebration an 8.6 magnitude quake off Indonesia set off tsunami alarms across the Indian Ocean -- including six southern coastal provinces in Thailand, where tens of thousands of residents and tourists fled to high ground, temporarily spoiling the festive mood. But not for Thaksin's supporters in the Northeast, a few hundred of whom went to Vientiane to greet him.

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