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News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 22/06/2020
» Thailand appears able to contain the spread of coronavirus at home as manifested by the absence of local infection for the past three weeks, thanks to the tireless efforts of the medical personnel and the public health volunteers as well as the cooperation of the majority of the public in observing the basic health requirements of wearing a face mask in public, social distancing and regular hand cleansing.
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 15/06/2020
» Pressure is steadily building on Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha from rebel MPs in the ruling Palang Pracharath Party, spearheaded by the Sam Mit faction, for a cabinet reshuffle despite the prime minister having made clear that changing the cabinet is his prerogative.
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 08/06/2020
» When Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon told the media last week he was not ready to assume the leadership of the ruling Palang Pracharath Party (PPRP), that doesn't mean he will reject the offer in the near future. Otherwise he would have said he didn't want the job because he has been the de facto leader from the very beginning.
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 27/01/2020
» What appears to be an act of stupidity or carelessness of a government lawmaker -- who left his electronic voting card in the card reading device at the House as he left for home in Phatthalung province in the middle of the debate on the budget bill during Jan 10-11 to attend a funeral and chair a Children's Day event, and an unknown colleague used his card to vote in favour of the bill -- has now developed into a serious transgression that threatens to render the bill, which was passed by both the House and the Senate, null and void.
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 05/08/2019
» All opinion polls on the issue of police reform conducted in the past five years under the junta's rule showed most people backed change.
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 22/07/2019
» Most political pundits believe Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha's 19-party coalition government will not last long for a number of reasons.
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 01/07/2019
» Fingers are pointing at the government with accusations about its indifference to, or ignorance of, political violence; or even complicity in the violence itself over the brutal attack on anti-junta political activist Sirawith "Ja New" Seritiwat by four unidentified perpetrators in Klong Sam Wa district in Bangkok on Friday.
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 10/06/2019
» Trouble is brewing in the Palang Pracharath-led coalition alliance sooner than expected over the sharing of key economic ministries. Now that the party got its candidate, Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha, voted in as prime minister, it is going back on its promises by demanding the agriculture and commerce ministerial posts from the Democrat Party, and the transport minister's post from the Bhumjaithai Party, on the pretext that Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak, Gen Prayut's right-hand man on economic affairs, may opt out of the new cabinet if he does not control the three key economic ministries.
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 13/05/2019
» Many of us will understand by now why Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon was so tight-lipped over the past several months about the 194 senators that the selection committee he led was assigned to handpick. We were kept totally in the dark regarding the candidates for the posts.
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 22/04/2019
» Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon said last week that the case of former Immigration Bureau commissioner Pol Lt Gen Surachate Hakparn was closed and there was no need for an investigation. He added that anyone who wants to know the actual cause of Pol Lt Gen Surachate's abrupt firing as the commissioner and, subsequently, his "demotion" to civil servant should better find out themselves.