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Thaksin may be signalling a return to the spotlight
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 20/04/2015
» "To Phra Suthep: I have stopped for a long time but you have not. You say you have been in the monkhood for nine months. Don't be a monk merely to be covered by a saffron robe and have your head shaved. Have your heart ordained as well because you still lie frequently. (I) thought you would stop lying in your saffron robe. We knew each other quite well."
Cut the tactless quips and focus on the job
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 27/03/2015
» It was indeed a bad slip of the tongue by Governor Sukhumbhand Paribatra when he suggested that frustrated Bangkokians should "go live on a mountain" if they could not accept the risk of flooding while living in the city.
Finally, Dhammakaya's political alliances made clear
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 27/02/2015
» I really admire the bluntness of Dr Weng Tojirakarn.
The Sangha's shock ruling leaves it ripe for reform
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 23/02/2015
» The Sangha Supreme Council will not defrock controversial monk Phra Dhammachayo, or Phra Thepyarn Mahamunee, the abbot of Wat Dhammakaya, and that decision has landed it in a hot and sticky situation.
Forgiveness depends on admitting rice scheme flaws
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 26/01/2015
» Are you ready? Are you ready Thai people?
Tang Archeewa's puppet master should shut him up
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 06/01/2015
» The Ministry of Foreign Affairs seems to have just awakened to the problem of Ekaphob Luera, widely known as “Tang Archeewa.” Without a hard push from the National Council for Peace and Order, I wonder if the ministry will do something regarding the red-shirt underling now facing lese majeste charges.
Again, the 'big fish' escapes
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 05/08/2014
» Warong Dechgitvigrom, former Democrat MP for Phitsanulok, posted a message and an image of a big house in Khao Yai on his Facebook page on June 1 last year.
The ‘big stick’ of martial law must be used sparingly
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 28/07/2014
» Many of us may have forgotten that Bangkok is still under martial law.
Problems are being sorted with bewildering speed
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 07/07/2014
» It is in no-way overstating the fact that there has been a distinct odour to the way the pledged rice has been stored in many privately-owned warehouses and silos from the start of the infamous scheme three years ago. But the real problem is that all those people in the Yingluck government, from top to bottom, who were responsible for the scheme didn’t smell it.
Big fish that was overlooked
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 01/07/2014
» I couldn’t agree more with former senator Somchai Sawaengkarn who said on his Facebook page last week that the mainstream media has downplayed the Saraburi military court’s issuing of an arrest warrant for Lt Gen Manas Paorik, former deputy commander of the 3rd Army Region and a senior member of the Pheu Thai party.