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Renegades bring House debate to life
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 21/02/2022
» Mustachioed MP of Uttaradit province Saranwut Saranket does not look like a typical Thai politician. He looks more like a Wild West cowboy, albeit without a gun slung on his waist or a horse.
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.
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.
PM faces harsh decisions as government starts to creak
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 20/07/2015
» Former Pheu Thai Party leader Chaturon Chaisaeng says it is now too late for a cabinet reshuffle as the country's economy has turned so bad that it is beyond repair even if a a few under-performing ministers were to be dumped.
Corruption award goes to rice scheme
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 17/01/2014
» It's the mother of all corruption cases, those phantom government-to-government rice deals.
Floods may prove a blessing for rice scheme
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 14/10/2013
» The Straits Times of Singapore reported on Saturday that India has overtaken Thailand as the biggest rice supplier to Singapore _ the first time this is believed to have happened.
Ombudsman's ruling brings own credibiity into question
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 04/10/2013
» The Office of the Ombudsman has cleared Finance Minister Kittirat Na-Ranong of any ethical misconduct over his "white lie" because, it says, he had not caused any damage to the private sector.
Even a little is better than nothing at all
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 31/07/2013
» The embattled Commerce Ministry seems to have finally, if grudgingly, accepted that "something is better than nothing at all" when it comes to offloading the huge and ageing 17 million tonne rice stockpile generated by the rice pledging scheme.
Commerce Ministry, land of fairy tales
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 12/07/2013
» The Commerce Ministry is quite the expert in keeping us amazed by the fairy tales it has continually pulled from its sleeves since the launch of the rice pledging scheme - which should be renamed the rice buying scheme - two years ago.
Clowns in a 'musical chairs' cabinet
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 25/06/2013
» Pressure is rightfully mounting on Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to overhaul her cabinet and to replace incompetent ministers with more capable and professional people to shore up the government's credibility and image.