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Insurgents have 'a deep pain' in their hearts
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 18/02/2013
» A two-minute video clip of the funeral of some of the 16 dead Islamist insurgents from the failed attack on a marine outpost in Narathiwat's Bacho district was posted on the YouTube social network last Friday _ just two days after the attack.
Charupong's comments upset PM
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 04/02/2013
» 'Silence is golden". So goes the timeless old adage. Unfortunately though, Charupong Ruangsuwan, the interior minister and de jure Pheu Thai Party leader, appeared to have forgotten this bit of wisdom when he recently talked to The New York Times correspondent in Bangkok, Thomas Fuller, for an article about Thai politics and the role of deposed prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra in the government of his sister, Ms Yingluck.
Suffering Klity Creek people finally get some justice
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 11/01/2013
» In a landmark environmental case, the Supreme Administrative Court on Thursday ordered the Pollution Control Department to pay nearly four million baht in compensation for lead poisoning to 22 Karen villagers at Klity Creek in Kanchanaburi.
Supreme Court judged by people's court
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 07/01/2013
» The Supreme Court is caught up in an unwitting dispute with the Fine Arts Department and all sorts of professional and amateur conservationists and Facebook followers over its questionable decision to demolish its 70-year old courthouse in order to build a new and more modern structure.
Abhisit caught in dirty political trick?
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 14/12/2012
» As a criminal suspect is regarded as innocent unless proven otherwise, he or she is entitled to the rights accorded by the law. That includes the right to privacy and not to be photographed while being fingerprinted by the police to acknowledge charges.
Is scandal in the eye of the writer or reader?
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 10/12/2012
» It has been a long-standing tradition for Thai newspapers to print a short message on the front pages of their Dec 5 editions expressing well wishes to His Majesty the King on the occasion of his birthday.
Govt is hardly convincing about the South
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 03/12/2012
» All the 300-plus schools in Pattani province which closed on Nov 26 after the killing two days before of a school director in Nong Chik district by suspected extremists are due to reopen today after Education Minister Pongthep Thepkanchana promised to look into the teachers' demands.
Boonlert unfit to lead another protest
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 30/11/2012
» Former Pitak Siam group leader Gen Boonlert Kaewprasit not only grossly miscalculated the expected turnout at last Saturday's Pitak Siam rally and shot himself in the foot with his outlandish idea of freezing democracy for five years, he also blundered badly by trying to seek army intervention after police fired tear gas at protesters.
Real 'big picture' really isn't pretty
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 19/10/2012
» The big picture! So said Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra as she asked all the critics of the government’s rice pledging scheme to look at it. And the "big picture" is the benefit the scheme supposedly brings to the country’s three million rice farming households.
Patience can lead to virtue and rotten rice
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 15/10/2012
» Taxpayers should not be surprised if they are occasionally confused by the conflicting statements made by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her ministers, Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapirom in particular, pertaining to anything related to the rice pledging scheme _ because the government is treating everything as a trade secret which must be kept confidential and disclosed to the public only at the end of next year.