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Weekly highlights
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 27/01/2012
» The Nitirat group comes under heavy fire for its controversial proposals regarding the monarchy, as moves to amend or rewrite the charter gained added momentum. Meanwhile, a confrontation is looming between the City Hall and the government over flood prevention - amid predictions of another flood crisis this year.
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An act of expediency or a huge mistake?
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 28/05/2012
» 'There are no real friends nor permanent foes in politics, only shared interests." This popular Thai political saying has been proven true time and again as witnessed in the case between Gen Sonthi Boonyaratglin, former coup maker and leader of the one-MP Matibhum Party, and the ruling Pheu Thai Party.
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Facing up to rice error
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 13/08/2012
» Ammar Siamwalla, the honorary economist at the Thailand Development Research Institute, warned aboutb it back in September last year during his talk at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand.
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Without govt funding Thai athletes will never shine out
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 14/08/2012
» By Asean standards Thai atheletes did not perform badly at the London 2012 Olympic Games. They won two silvers and one bronze, while Indonesia and Malaysia each won only a silver and a bronze.
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Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 21/09/2012
» The final report on the political turbulance in April and May 2010 was released by Kanit na Nakorn's truth commission and, as anticipated, was heavily criticised, especially by red-shirts and the Pheu Thai Party; and Parliament President Somsak Kiatsuranont was spotlighted for using seven million baht of taxpayers' money to take a large group of his staff and pro-government media people on a junket to Europe.
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No shame about lying
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 24/09/2012
» When parliament president Somsak Kiatsuranont said on Thursday that he might visit China to attend a provincial trade exposition instead of taking a "study" tour of western Europe which was heavily criticised by the press, I was foolishly misled into thinking that he really felt guilty about spending seven million baht of taxpayers' money on a junket which includes watching an English Premier League soccer match.
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Sanity must prevail over rice pledging
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 01/10/2012
» Three cheers of chai-yo to Dr Adis Israngkura na Ayudhaya, dean of the Economic Development Faculty of the National Institute Development Administration (Nida), and 145 academics and students who co-signed a petition to the Constitution Court challenging the effectiveness of the government's rice-pledging scheme and the sanity of continuing this badly-flawed and corruption-riddled populist policy.
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Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 05/10/2012
» The approach of tropical storm Gaemi and the possibility of another major flood, or not, is dominating the headlines.
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Lotus leaves will not cover up rice problem
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 08/10/2012
» "You cannot cover up a dead elephant with lotus leaves." So goes this popular Thai saying, which means that a scandal or something evil which is widely known can never be concealed or covered up because the truth about it will, sooner or later, be exposed.
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Highlights of the week
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 12/10/2012
» Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapriom remains tightlipped on goverment-to-government (G-to-G) rice deals, claiming the details are secret, as the Transport Ministry is asked to help provide storage space for this harvest's crop. In Bangkok the "sandbag row" was supposed to be settled at a meeting on Friday between City Hall and the Water and Flood Management Commission. And more violence in the deep South.
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