Showing 1 - 10 of 27
Who's directing behind the scenes?
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 13/05/2024
» The speechwriter who wrote the speech delivered by Pheu Thai Party leader Paetongtarn Shinawatra at the party meeting on May 3 did a lousy job which consequently put her in hot water.
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.
Gen Chavalit is a little wide of the mark these days
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 29/02/2016
» Former prime minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, whose nickname is Big Jiew, has always been an amazing public figure to me. Last Thursday, he hosted a press conference at his house in Soi Pinprachakhom after keeping a low profile for about half a year to disclose his open letter addressed to "patriotic Thai people".
Suthep's grand push on reforms might be a pipe dream
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 03/08/2015
» Former People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) leader Suthep Thaugsuban is admired by as many people as he is hated for his role in leading the mass protests which culminated in the toppling of the Yingluck Shinawatra government on May 22 last year.
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 hae nang maew, a ritual to ask the deity for rain, as much of the country suffers under the worst drought in memory.
Rice saga fates await Boonsong, Phoom and Manas
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 11/05/2015
» The curtain has fallen on the impeachment case against former commerce minister Boonsong Teriyapirom, his former deputy Phoom Sarapol and former Foreign Trade Department director-general Manas Soyploy over the fake government-to-government (G-to-G) rice deals with two Chinese trading companies: Guangdong Stationery and Sporting Goods Import and Export, and Hainan Grains and Industrial Trading.
For Pheu Thai, love means having to say you're sorry
Oped, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 23/03/2015
» One thing unique about Pheu Thai people, from top to bottom, is that they rarely admit their mistakes.
New cabinet must now prove its worth
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 02/09/2014
» The private sector has given the thumbs-up to the economic team of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha led by MR Pridiyathorn Devakula, who was appointed deputy prime minister in charge of economic affairs.
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.
Court rice graft ruling glitter of hope
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 10/06/2014
» There are two welcome news items, each with both good news and bad, about the discredited rice pledging scheme.