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Ombudsman's ruling brings own credibiity into question
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 04/10/2013
» The Office of the Ombudsman has cleared Finance Minister Kittirat Na-Ranong of any ethical misconduct over his "white lie" because, it says, he had not caused any damage to the private sector.
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Showdown? It's just window-dressing
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 18/02/2014
» The stage was supposedly set for a major showdown on Tuesday. What was not clear was whether it would be a make-or-break confrontation, or just another show of force by the two opposing forces, the Centre for Maintaining Peace and Order (CMPO) and the People’s Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC).
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Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 17/08/2012
» The power struggle in the Senate ended with the elected members putting their candidate in the speaker's seat, while in the House the government was grilled by the Democrats over a lack of transparency and corruption in the spending of funds for mega-projects such as the rice pledging scheme and flood rehabilitation programme, and in the far South the violence continued unabated.
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Buy high, sell cheap -- and you lose
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 22/10/2013
» The mathematics is simple and straightforward. When you buy something such as a pack of rice at 200 baht and you sell it at 150 baht, the loss is 50 baht. And if there were other costs too, then the loss will be higher.
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Can the Commerce Ministry be trusted even now?
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 02/07/2013
» On June 18, the National Rice Policy Commission slashed the rice pledging price by 20% from 15,000 baht to 12,000 baht per tonne. Less than two weeks later it made an about turn, reverting to the old price and putting its own credibility and that of the government at rock bottom.
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Highlights of the Week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 02/11/2012
» Led by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, the 23 new cabinet appointees were sworn in before His Majesty the King at Siriraj Hospital on Thursday and a special meeting of the cabinet scheduled for today, Friday.
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No more 'turning a blind eye'
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 28/12/2020
» 'Find the bad people," said an emotionally-charged Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on Tuesday when he talked about the human trafficking gangs responsible for smuggling migrant workers from Myanmar into Thailand, blamed for the current Covid-19 outbreak in Samut Sakhon province.
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Rice-scheme fan Kittiratt defends the indefensible
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 02/11/2015
» Former deputy prime minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong seems to take pride in being one of the staunchest defenders of the Pheu Thai Party's botched rice pledging scheme and former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, who is facing dereliction of duty charges for mishandling the rice scheme that caused huge losses to the state.
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Ex-ministers fail badly in their defence of Yingluck
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 19/01/2015
» So, four ministers from the ousted government of Yingluck Shinawatra have taken to YouTube to answer, in her defence, the questions about the rice-pledging scheme raised by members of the National Legislative Assembly last Friday. They took this action to offset the assembly's refusal to let them speak on her behalf.
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Comfort letter makes GSB chief squirm in his seat
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 17/02/2014
» Many of us, I believe, are well aware of the phrase "comfort women", those unfortunate women and girls in countries occupied by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II who were forced into prostitution in organised brothels to satisfy the sexual appetite of its soldiers. There are several films about this dark side of the war.
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