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PM needs to be open to public criticism

News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 16/10/2023

» Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin is desperately rallying the public to get behind the Pheu Thai Party's controversial digital wallet scheme. Known as the "helicopter money" scheme, the plan -- which will see 10,000 baht in digital cash remitted to all Thais aged 16 and above -- was one of the policies the party had promised its supporters ahead of the May 14 election.

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Mass jab hopes a crucial test for Prayut

News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 31/05/2021

» Despite reassurances from Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul that the mass Covid-19 vaccinations for people over 60 and those suffering from seven non-communicable underlying diseases across the country will proceed as scheduled on June 7, scepticism remains strong among many about whether this administration can still be trusted after repeated blunders in the handling of the pandemic.

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Vaccine buy bears up to scrutiny

News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 25/01/2021

» Thank you Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit, leader of the Progressive Movement, for helping shed the light on the initiative of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej in the founding of a pharmaceutical firm, Siam Bioscience, 12 years ago, which was not widely known among Thais outside medical circles.

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TV debate puts protesters on the spot

News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 30/11/2020

» The talk of the town this weekend was the debate on Thai Rath TV's Direct Question with Jomquan talk show on Friday night on the Crown Property Regulations Act, between Dr Arnond Sakworawich of the National Institute Development Administration (Nida) and Ms Panusaya "Rung" Sitthijirawattanakul, one of the firebrand protest leaders of the Khana Ratsadon movement and a student at Thammasat University's Faculty of Social Science and Humanities.

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Daring to dream of an end to coups

News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 10/02/2020

» The Future Forward Party (FFP) has a big dream that no other party in Thailand dares or cares to dream. That is the dream that this country will one day be free from coups for good.

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'Flash mob' leaves FFP with work to do

News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 16/12/2019

» There were as many bystanders as party supporters among the few thousand people who converged in front of the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre and the Pathumwan skywalk on Saturday evening where the Future Forward Party (FFP) held its "flash mob" to test public response to its call for justice for the party after the Election Commission (EC) last week asked the Constitutional Court to dissolve the party over a 191-million-baht "loan" to the party by its leader, Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit.

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Judgement day for Thanathorn

News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 18/11/2019

» Judgement day for Future Forward Party (FFP) leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit arrives on Wednesday.

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Srivara puts foot in it with rescue rhetoric

News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 02/07/2018

» Pol Gen Srivara Rangsibrahmanakul did it again!

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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.

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Bidding adieu to the Shinawatra dynasty

News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 28/08/2017

» Allow me to leave former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra for a moment. I will come to her later.