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Government must stop waste piling up
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 11/06/2018
» Thailand aspires to become a global kitchen; a top supplier of food to the rest of the world. It also aspires to become a tourism, hospitality, aviation and wellness hub for the region -- if not the world -- to mention just some government objectives.
Prawit's offer less generous than it seems
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 05/02/2018
» When the embattled deputy prime minister, Gen Prawit Wongsuwon, told a group of military affairs reporters at the Ministry of Defence last Wednesday that he was ready to resign "if the people do not want me", I was hesitant to welcome his move or shower him with praise for acting as a role model for our politicians and public figures about what they should do when caught in the middle of a scandal.
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.
End prejudice against migrant workers
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 10/07/2017
» Jingoism ran high among many nationalists as the subject of millions of documented and undocumented migrant workers from Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia was discussed on social media in the aftermath of the controversial decree on migrant workers which came into force on June 23.
The soul of the Mekong is in serious trouble
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 06/02/2017
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha last week asked reporters why non-governmental organisations (NGOs), environmental activists and academics continue to protest against the planned blasting of rapids in the Mekong River.
NGV buses pawns in deepening customs row
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 12/12/2016
» I wonder whether Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and some of his cabinet ministers will have the privilege of being the first passengers to ride the new air-conditioned NGV buses on Dec 21.
Weevils in the rice scheme get fumigated
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 12/09/2016
» A sense of vindication overcame me last Friday when the Anti-Money Laundering Office announced the seizure of about seven billion baht worth of bank deposits and land plots in Bangkok, Phuket, Phangnga, Lamphun, Ayutthaya and Ang Thong from two companies: Siam Indica Co and Srilalai Co (later changed to Kitha Properties Co) and various individuals closely connected to Apichart Chansakulporn, or Sia Piang, an influential rice exporter who was close to the Pheu Thai Party.
Netizens' anger real in a digital world
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 02/10/2015
» It's like the boss being about to sneeze and most of his staff rush to hand him a handkerchief. And this boss appears to love the way he is being pampered by his staff.
Few admirers of Thailand’s sorry role in Uighur saga
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 13/07/2015
» After a barrage of condemnation from the United States, the European Union, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and a host of human rights groups, over the Thai government’s "forced deportation" of 109 Uighur men back to China, Beijing has come to Thailand's rescue. It has undeniably done so to defend itself against concerns that the returnees face harsh treatment and a lack of due process, as stated by John Kirby, the US State Department spokesman.
Of drought, and cats, and rain gods
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 26/06/2015
» Black Siamese cats are in high demand these days. No, not for dining tables in China, but for <i>hae nang maew</i>, a ritual to ask the deity for rain, as much of the country suffers under the worst drought in memory.