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Regime's best-laid plans still subject to folly
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 15/01/2018
» Was Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon really serious when he issued a stern warning to officials of the Foreign Ministry, the Office of the Attorney-General and police that they could face malfeasance in office charges under the Criminal Code if they do not try hard enough to have fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra sent back home to face the music?
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.
Sulak lese majeste case so absurd it hurts
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 16/10/2017
» Well-known academic and social critic Sulak Sivaraksa is no stranger to lese majeste charges.
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.
Yingluck flight takes on soap opera feel
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 25/09/2017
» Former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra's judgement day is due this Wednesday. But the big question mark which has been lingering in the minds of many people is: Will she emerge from hiding and show up at the court? Her loyal supporters will certainly be there whether she shows up or not.
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.
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".
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".