• OPINION

  MFP must dare to rebuke dubious deals

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 04/03/2024

  » Convicted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's first foreign visitor since his release on early parole from Police General Hospital on Feb 18 was Cambodian Supreme Privy Council President Hun Sen.

• OPINION

  Quasi-lockdown may be a step too far

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 28/06/2021

  » People living in Bangkok and nine other "maximum-restriction and controlled" provinces will now feel the pain of a semi-lockdown imposed by the Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).

• OPINION

  Protesters must keep showing restraint

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 15/03/2021

  » A group of anti-establishment protesters, calling itself the People Go Network (PGN), has defied police warnings not to camp overnight in front of Government House, and are settling in for a long stay at that very spot.

• OPINION

  Govt response has been mind-boggling

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 16/03/2020

  » Deputy Prime Minister and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul went ballistic against Western tourists once again, probably out of stress from his heavy responsibility in containing the Covid-19 spread.

• OPINION

  FFP voters in search of a new home

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 24/02/2020

  » It was one of those dark days in Thai political history when the Constitutional Court decided to condemn the Future Forward Party (FFP) to premature death for the crime of receiving a 191.2 million baht loan from its leader, Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit.

• OPINION

  Govt opts for coronavirus middle road

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 03/02/2020

  » Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has come under heavy criticism from critics for doing too little too slowly to handle the serious health threat posed by novel coronavirus 2019, now declared by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a global health emergency.

• OPINION

  Farming chemical facts distorted

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 02/12/2019

  » Industry Minister Suriya Jungrungreangkit did not speak the whole truth about the reversal of the resolution by the new National Hazardous Substances Committee (NHSC) that he chairs over weed-killers glyphosate and paraquat, and the pesticide chlorpyrifos.

• OPINION

  FFP pays price for meteoric rise

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 25/11/2019

  » Following the Constitutional Court ruling last week that disqualified Future Forward Party (FFP) leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit as an MP, the Election Commission (EC) said it is considering whether to file criminal charges against him in a related case for violation Section 151 of the Members of the House of Representatives Election Act 2018. But FFP spokeswoman Pannika Wanich has made a valid point about the law in a defence of the party's leader.

• OPINION

  Stalling on chemical ban must end

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 07/10/2019

  » Huge banners declaring support for a total ban of herbicides paraquat and glyphosate and pesticide chlorpyrifos have recently been erected at many state-run provincial hospitals, in what appears to be an escalated campaign by the Ministry of Public Health to warn people of the danger posed by the three toxic substances widely used among Thai farmers to kill weeds and insects.

• OPINION

  PM fails to put oath debate to bed

  News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 23/09/2019

  » The Sept 18 parliamentary debate against Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha over his incomplete reciting of the oath of office is over. But the controversy lingers on as the opposition has refused to let go of the matter. This is because the prime minister did not himself clarify why he omitted to recite an important part of the oath as stipulated in the constitution but assigned his top legal expert, Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam, to act on his behalf.

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