• OPINION

  Mirror, mirror who's the fairest PM of all?

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 22/01/2018

  » Bangkok Poll, of the research centre of Bangkok University, reported over the weekend that the popularity rating of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has dropped to 36.8% from the 52.8% recorded in its opinion survey conducted in May last year.

• OPINION

  Darkest-day song nothing to be proud of

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 20/02/2019

  » Army commander-in-chief Gen Apirat Kongsompong's decision to order the army-run radio stations to "resurrect" the old ultra-nationalist song Nak Phandin ("Burden on the Land") in an apparent response to the Pheu Thai Party's prime ministerial candidate Khunying Sudarat Keyuraphan's threat to cut military spending and Future Forward Party's pledge to scrap mandatory conscription is totally uncalled for.

• OPINION

  PM says he's a politician − no surprise there

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 08/01/2018

  » Finally, last week, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha halfheartedly admitted, for the first time since he took over the government's administration more than three years ago, that he is a politician, but not without reminding all of us that he is not just any politician -- but a politician who used to be a soldier.

• OPINION

  There are bigger issues than Thaksin's police rank

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 17/08/2015

  » National police chief Pol Gen Somyot Pummpunmuang has until the end of September to do what he is legally required to do, and has promised to do, more than once -- strip fugitive former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra of his police lieutenant-colonel title.

• OPINION

  Prawit ushers in nepotism on the sly

  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.

• OPINION

  Prawit's offer less generous than it seems

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 05/02/2018

  » When the embattled deputy prime minister, Gen Prawit Wongsuwon, told a group of military affairs reporters at the Ministry of Defence last Wednesday that he was ready to resign "if the people do not want me", I was hesitant to welcome his move or shower him with praise for acting as a role model for our politicians and public figures about what they should do when caught in the middle of a scandal.

• OPINION

  Prawit's rose-tinted view of police corruption

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 19/06/2017

  » Gen Prawit Wongsuwon, deputy prime minister in charge of security affairs, took sick leave for about two weeks in mid-May. But it seems he has been away in the twilight zone for much longer, as he is totally in the dark about how some "lucrative" posts in the police force are traded.

• OPINION

  Mingkwan drops bombshell on party

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 12/12/2022

  » Mingkwan Saegsuwan, former deputy prime minister and commerce minister, dropped a bombshell on the very first day that he was presented to the media by Gen Prawit Wongsuwon, leader of the Palang Pracharath Party, as a new member and possibly head of its economic team.

• OPINION

  Rebel MPs want their share of the cake

  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.

• OPINION

  Regime's best-laid plans still subject to folly

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 15/01/2018

  » Was Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon really serious when he issued a stern warning to officials of the Foreign Ministry, the Office of the Attorney-General and police that they could face malfeasance in office charges under the Criminal Code if they do not try hard enough to have fugitive former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra sent back home to face the music?

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