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Move quickly to seize forests back from rubber planters
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 21/04/2015
» With the blessing of the National Council for Peace and Order, the Royal Forest Department intends over the next two years to seize back one million rai of former forest that has been encroached on, cleared and planted in rubber.
Amnuay is right man for the job
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 26/08/2014
» If the National Council for Peace and Order wants to strictly enforce martial law and ban public gatherings of more than five people, then its choice of Pol Maj-Gen Amnuay Nimmano as the man in charge of security in Bangkok, especially around Government House, is indeed the right decision.
Fugitive Jakrapob aims high in fighting the junta
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 09/06/2014
» So, Jakrapob Penkair, a Prime Minister’s Office minister in the government of Samak Sundaravej, has become the public face of the anti-coup resistance movement.
Don't make Thailand a laughing stock
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 09/05/2014
» The Centre for the Administration of Peace and Order (Capo) seems under the delusion it is a super special governmental agency which is not bound by the Constitutional Court’s decisions, unlike all other governmental agencies, the parliament and the cabinet.
The government is crippled, and we’re stuck with it
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 24/03/2014
» It has been more than three months since we have had a functional government. The bad news is, this dysfunctional government will be with us for at least the next three months until a new election is held - that is if it can limp along without having an "accident" which will put an end to it.
No matter the hurt, PM must accept court ruling
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 17/03/2014
» Caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s tearful appeal for sympathy and understanding for her government’s good intentions in the aftermath of the Constitution Court’s ruling rendering the government’s two trillion baht loan bill unconstitutional has invited a flood of criticism in the social media.
There are too many doubts over the Feb 2 election
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 23/12/2013
» The Democrat Party's decision on Saturday to boycott the Feb 2 election is understandable. It is pointless to contest a poll which will lead it nowhere, except back into the same political quagmire that beset the country before the election.
Tense times as revised amnesty bill awaits
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 21/10/2013
» The move in parliament on Friday when Pheu Thai MPs managed to push a new version of an amnesty through the 35-member House panel vetting the amnesty bill resembles what I would call a "silent coup".
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."
Big questions linger over reform assembly
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 19/08/2013
» It is said it takes two to tango. But it seems the government does not subscribe to this theory and has decided to tango alone without its opposite partner in its push for political reform and national reconciliation through the political reform assembly.