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The on-again, off-again magic jabs deal
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 09/08/2021
» The show must go on. This maxim may explain the reason why Dr Boon Vanasin, chairman of Thonburi Healthcare Group, came out again on Aug 3 to talk to the Thai media with a new claim that he was in the process of signing a deal with the Defence Ministry to procure an unspecified amount of the mRNA Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for import into Thailand.
A reprieve, so they can continue to plunder?
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 03/07/2015
» Chambers of commerce in some coastal provinces have asked the government for a two-month reprieve for the owners of thousands of illegal fishing boats now moored at ports and jetties unable to meet the IUU fishing rule.
Military moves up, from bottles to banknotes
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 07/10/2014
» The public disclosure of the assets and liabilities of members of the National Legislative Assembly by the National Anti-Corruption Commission, especially the wealth of several police and military generals, is indeed an eye-opener.
Channel 3 hiding behind 'public interest'
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 09/09/2014
» The management of TV Channel 3 seems to have forgotten that about a decade ago Supinya Klangnarong, then a vocal activist of the NGO the Campaign for Media Reform was charged with criminal defamation by Shin Corp for alleged defamatory remarks she made at a seminar entitled "Five Years of Thai Rak Thai – Shin Corp Gets Richer".
Easing of curbs on media right decision
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 22/07/2014
» The curbs on press freedom imposed in the form of announcement No 97 of the National Council for Peace and Order, since eased after they encountered stiff resistance from media organisations, reminds me of the crude means used by former dictators, both civilian and military, in dealing with the media.
PM's surprise talks plan needs a serious look
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 05/08/2013
» Africa seems to be an ideal place in which to gain some inspiration - at least for Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
Auctioned rice must be quality guaranteed
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 23/07/2013
» Rice exporters are complaining they have not been given the chance to examine the first lot of rice - 150,000 tonnes of 5% white rice and 200,000 tonnes of broken milled rice - the Commerce Ministry is to auction off on July 29.
FAO warning shows folly of rice pledging
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 11/02/2013
» Just as the media and the public are losing interest in the government's populist rice pledging scheme, the latest report from the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warns that Thailand may be running out of space to store rice.
Out of sight, but rice scheme not out of hot water
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 15/01/2013
» Out of sight, out of mind, so the saying goes. And never more so than with the government’s primary, populist policy vote-catcher – the deeply troubled rice pledging scheme.
A rice deal that never existed in the first place
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 22/11/2012
» The truth is out, that the Commerce Ministry's claim of a 15-million-tonne government-to-government rice deal with China over three years is anything but real.