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PM says he's a politician − no surprise there
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 08/01/2018
» Finally, last week, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha halfheartedly admitted, for the first time since he took over the government's administration more than three years ago, that he is a politician, but not without reminding all of us that he is not just any politician -- but a politician who used to be a soldier.
PM's questions are on a journey to nowhere
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 13/11/2017
» In May, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha posed four questions to the public and invited them to leave written replies at Damrongtham centres throughout the country.
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.
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.
NOB transfer harms govt anti-graft drive
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 11/09/2017
» Pol Lt Col Pongporn Pramsaneh has been widely recognised as an honest and straightforward officer in the Department of Special Investigation – a rare breed in the police force. It explains why he was ordered shifted from the DSI's head of the Tax Litigation Office to lead the National Office of Buddhism (NOB) on Feb 25 by Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha to do an unenviable mission. His task was to clean up the mess concerning the misappropriation of government funds for the renovation of temples and for schools on temple grounds.
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".
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.
Prawit's rose-tinted view of police corruption
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 19/06/2017
» Gen Prawit Wongsuwon, deputy prime minister in charge of security affairs, took sick leave for about two weeks in mid-May. But it seems he has been away in the twilight zone for much longer, as he is totally in the dark about how some "lucrative" posts in the police force are traded.
Election prospects take another knock
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 29/05/2017
» Earlier last week, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha told us the next election, which was to be held in accordance with the government's political roadmap, might be postponed if unrest is still prevalent.