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Tragedy, farce in Mountain B saga
Oped, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 15/08/2022
» By now, many of us may have lost interest in the deadly fire at the Mountain B pub in Sattahip district of Chon Buri province because they are occupied with other more pressing issues such as inflation.
Vote buying does not ensure success
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 01/08/2022
» Vote buying in parliament is an ugly form of dirty politics which normally rears its head during a censure debate, especially on the last day, before a vote is to be taken.
PM kicks for touch on fuel, food prices
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 27/06/2022
» Wise men say putting the right man in the right job will get it done and done well. So when Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha last week assigned the National Security Council (NSC) to take the lead in tackling energy and food problems, many eyebrows were raised, questioning the rationale of such bizarre idea.
PM survives debate, but takes a hit
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 06/09/2021
» Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and his five ministers survived the censure debate on Saturday.
Thaksin's pawns continue to fall
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 05/03/2019
» My belated sympathies go out to Yongyuth Wichaidit, former deputy prime minister and former interior minister in the Yingluck Shinawatra government and former Pheu Thai Party leader.
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.
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.
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".
Beware the civil service's warrior queens
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 26/09/2016
» The women have guts -- and lots of it. I am referring to Commerce Minister Apiradi Tantraporn who last week signed an administrative order to pave the way for the Legal Execution Department to proceed with confiscating the assets of her predecessor, Boonsong Teriyapirom, and his five associates involved in the fake government-to-government rice deals with two fictitious Chinese firms, to recoup the loss from these deals estimated at about 20 billion baht.