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Prosecution fails to clear up 2006 election scandal
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 08/02/2016
» After almost 10 years of living with the stigma of being electoral cheats, which resulted in the dissolution of the Thai Rak Thai Party by the Constitutional Court, several former members of the defunct party are celebrating the Supreme Court's verdict last Wednesday which, they claim, has found the party not guilty.
Not much hope of voters understanding the charter
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 01/02/2016
» The completed draft constitution by Meechai Ruchuphan's Constitution Drafting Committee is up for public scrutiny. It is a thick volume of importance, yet boring to read because of all the legal jargon that is difficult to understand, even for people with some legal background.
Democrat dilemma over fractious Sukhumbhand
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 08/12/2015
» There is clearly no love lost between the Democrat Party and recalcitrant Bangkok Governor MR Sukhumbhand Paribatra.
With Section 44, no need to reason why
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 04/09/2015
» Have sympathy for Chaturon Chaisaeng. The former education minister and key member of the Pheu Thai party was caught totally off guard when his passport was cancelled and only learned of it when asked by reporters for comment.
Dismal reflection of civil aviation 'efficiency'
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 21/07/2015
» The long queues are gone, the brief chaos over at Don Mueang airport and only unhappy memories remain for the poor souls forced to wait hours before boarding, or even missing, their flights over the weekend.
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.
UDD insincere in its denial of 'Men in Black'
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 16/09/2014
» It came as no surprise that core members of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) and some former Pheu Thai MPs have broken their self-imposed silence to deny the existence of the "Men in Black" and question the arrest of the five suspects paraded before the media.
Again, the 'big fish' escapes
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 05/08/2014
» Warong Dechgitvigrom, former Democrat MP for Phitsanulok, posted a message and an image of a big house in Khao Yai on his Facebook page on June 1 last year.