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Military mindset will be tough nut to crack
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 27/11/2017
» The way the military -- from Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Prawit Wongsowon down to the Phramongkutklao Hospital and the Armed Forces Academies Preparatory School (Afaps) -- has been handling the suspicious death of Pakapong Tanyakan, a freshman of the school, not only leaves much to be desired, but leaves the military establishment bruised.
Anupong caught napping over speed guns
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 23/10/2017
» For quite a few people in the three restive southernmost provinces, Interior Minister Anupong Paojinda is best remembered for the fraudulent handheld GT200 bomb detectors and the 350 million baht surveillance air ship which rarely flew, but most of the time sat wastefully at a hangar in a military camp in Pattani's Nong Chik district.
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.
Police ineptitude taints Yingluck saga
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 02/10/2017
» Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra's fate in Thailand has been sealed. She has to live in exile, perhaps for the rest of her life, because she cannot return to her home country without being thrown into prison to serve the five-year prison term handed down in her absence by the Supreme Court's Criminal Division for Holders of Political Positions.
Fake news runs rampant in land of smiles
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 04/09/2017
» It looked like a Potemkin-scene remake and Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha was the star player.
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.
Perils of trespassing into sacred territory
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 21/08/2017
» Lt Gen Sansern Kaewkamnerd, the government spokesman and caretaker director-general of the Public Relations Department, drew flak from media organisations and journalists because he unwittingly, or perhaps unknowingly, trespassed into their fiercely-guarded territory -- known in journalistic lexicon as "editorial independence".
No end of surprises in Red Bull case
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 14/08/2017
» The metropolitan police seem to always have something up their sleeve that never fails to surprise.
DSI custody death response misses the mark
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 07/08/2017
» The reputation of the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) took a huge blow when the Criminal Court ruled last Friday that Thawatchai Anukul, a former land official in Phuket and Phangnga provinces, who was kept in custody at a cell at the DSI head office, was "put to death by somebody else".
Raging red bull runs rings round lame ducks
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 08/05/2017
» Two interesting developments in the notorious fatal hit-and run case of 2012 implicating Red Bull scion Vorayuth "Boss" Yoovidhya occurred last week.