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School van tragedies can be averted
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 05/09/2022
» The death of a 7-year-old school girl found locked in a school van from morning until late in the afternoon in a parking lot of a school in Chon Buri last Tuesday is a tragic incident that can be prevented, without much difficulty.
Saksayam begins job with wrong turns
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 12/08/2019
» Transport Minister Saksayam Chidchob of the Bhumjaithai Party appears to stand out among his colleagues in the cabinet, as far as speed in performing duties is concerned.
Future Forward boss faces Supreme Court test
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 29/04/2019
» The media shareholding case against Future Forward Party (FFP) leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit and a few other prospective MPs appear to revolve around two issues -- firstly, the interpretation of Section 98 (3) of the 2017 constitution and Section 42 (3) of the MPs Election Act which forbid an election candidate from being a proprietor or shareholder of a media company and, secondly, whether a verdict of the Supreme Court can be reversed.
Vans are only a start to fixing road crisis
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 09/01/2017
» It took the lives of 25 people, including the drivers, of a passenger van and a pickup truck, in the worst road accident this year, to provide a saddening wake-up call for the government to do something in earnest to rein in passenger vans.
Custom clashes with politics in Banharn Buri
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 27/01/2015
» It happened in Suphan Buri, often called Banharn Buri – the province dominated by former prime minister Banharn Silpa-archa, advisory chairman of the Chart Thai Pattana Party.
KAL heiress on trial? Wouldn't happen here
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 20/01/2015
» I am aghast at the report from Seoul that Korean Air heiress Cho Hyun-ah could face up to 15 years in jail over the "nut rage" incident on board a KAL flight from Seoul to New York on Dec 5.
Old cars aren't the problem on city streets
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 09/10/2013
» There is an old southern Chinese saying which goes along these lines: "When one’s stomach is full, he or she has nothing to do and, therefore, starts looking for trouble."
Sanity must prevail over rice pledging
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 01/10/2012
» Three cheers of chai-yo to Dr Adis Israngkura na Ayudhaya, dean of the Economic Development Faculty of the National Institute Development Administration (Nida), and 145 academics and students who co-signed a petition to the Constitution Court challenging the effectiveness of the government's rice-pledging scheme and the sanity of continuing this badly-flawed and corruption-riddled populist policy.