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Conflicts of interest worsen crisis
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 06/04/2026
» Transport Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn's resignation as head of the committee handling the oil crisis caused by the war in the Middle East has spared him from public criticism over a potential conflict of interest linked to his family's oil trading business.
Govt keen to dangle debt relief
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 24/03/2025
» Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's recent idea to solve the problem of non-performing loans (NPLs) in the household debt sector is just a further extension of two similar programmes introduced by a previous Pheu Thai-led government to ease the financial burden of small debtors and SMEs.
Pheu Thai gambles in casino policy
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 16/09/2024
» 'Thaksin thinks, Pheu Thai acts." This famous slogan of the ruling Pheu Thai Party was clearly reflected in the government's policies presented to parliament by Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra last Thursday.
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.
Rent-free home least of PM's woes
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 16/11/2020
» 'What's did I do wrong?" asked Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha recently in the wake of boisterous calls by opposition parties and anti-establishment protesters for him to step down.
The winds of change are blowing
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 24/08/2020
» The wind of change has swept across Thailand and awakened Thai youth faster and more furiously than I've witnessed before in my lifetime. The three-fingered salute of rebellion which has spread to high-school students like Covid-19 during the traditional ritual of national anthem singing appears to have caused alarm among older generation people like myself.
FFP voters in search of a new home
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 24/02/2020
» It was one of those dark days in Thai political history when the Constitutional Court decided to condemn the Future Forward Party (FFP) to premature death for the crime of receiving a 191.2 million baht loan from its leader, Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit.
Dissolving FFP won't benefit nation
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 17/02/2020
» Political gurus who predicted the Future Forward Party (FFP) would be dissolved by the Constitutional Court over the "Illuminati case" were proven wrong when the court ruled otherwise on Jan 24.
Politics returns to childish ways
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 29/07/2019
» When chairing the joint sitting of the Lower House and the Senate during the debate on the government's policy statement last Thursday and Friday alternately with Senate Speaker Pornpetch Wichitcholachai, House Speaker Chuan Leekpai was right when he warned members of the two houses that parliament is not a playground and they should not treat it as such.