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Let charges flow thick and fast in Dhammakaya saga
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 02/03/2015
» Making merit at a temple with money borrowed from a co-operative set up in that same temple's compound so that you can go to heaven or find after-life happiness appears to be Mongkhol Setthi Credit Union Co-operative's marketing gimmick.
The Sangha's shock ruling leaves it ripe for reform
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 23/02/2015
» The Sangha Supreme Council will not defrock controversial monk Phra Dhammachayo, or Phra Thepyarn Mahamunee, the abbot of Wat Dhammakaya, and that decision has landed it in a hot and sticky situation.
Gen Prem is right, corruption is contemptible
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 03/02/2015
» Privy Council president Prem Tinsulanonda is known to be a man of few words – the kind of a man who speaks little but hits hard.
Will Yingluck be allowed to leave?
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 18/07/2014
» The big question now is: Will Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha, head of the National Council for Peace and Order, retract the decision allowing former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra to leave the country for a European tour from July 20-Aug 10 now the National Anti-Corruption Commission has decided to indict her for malfeasance in office for gross negligence in overseeing the rice pledging scheme?
Problems are being sorted with bewildering speed
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 07/07/2014
» It is in no-way overstating the fact that there has been a distinct odour to the way the pledged rice has been stored in many privately-owned warehouses and silos from the start of the infamous scheme three years ago. But the real problem is that all those people in the Yingluck government, from top to bottom, who were responsible for the scheme didn’t smell it.
Charupong should shun Jakrapob and his movement
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 24/06/2014
» It is clear that former Pheu Thai party leader Charupong Ruangsuwan has decided he will not come home and instead live in self-imposed exile, at least until there is a democratically elected government.
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.
Suffering Klity Creek people finally get some justice
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 11/01/2013
» In a landmark environmental case, the Supreme Administrative Court on Thursday ordered the Pollution Control Department to pay nearly four million baht in compensation for lead poisoning to 22 Karen villagers at Klity Creek in Kanchanaburi.
Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 28/09/2012
» The political future of Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit, who is also interior minister, hangs in the balance with pressure being applied both inside the party and outside for him to resign from political office.
Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 10/08/2012
» The hoo-ha over the government’s rice pledging scheme is likely to drag on and will probably dominate the coming censure debate against the government by the opposition Democrat Party, which is yet to be scheduled.