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PM kicks for touch on fuel, food prices
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 27/06/2022
» Wise men say putting the right man in the right job will get it done and done well. So when Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha last week assigned the National Security Council (NSC) to take the lead in tackling energy and food problems, many eyebrows were raised, questioning the rationale of such bizarre idea.
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Spare 'Toon' from carping over his run
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 27/12/2021
» With the dark shadow of the Omicron variant looming, the year 2022, which is just a week away, was never going to be a year of untold happiness to begin with for most people in the world, including Thailand.
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Opening needs caution with every step
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 18/10/2021
» Living with Covid-19 seems to be the inconvenient reality that several countries have accepted after realising that, unless there is an effective vaccine that can protect us from getting infected, the virus will remain with us and affect our livelihoods for the foreseeable future.
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Backstabbing mars test kits debate
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 23/08/2021
» When the first two Delta variant cases were detected in Thailand from a Thai woman and her four-year old child returning from Pakistan in May, no one would have thought the fast-spreading Covid-19 strain would conquer Thailand in just three months.
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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).
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Govt jab management fails to hit home
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 14/06/2021
» Most critics sum up Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha government's performance in the management of vaccines procurement with one simple word: "suck". I couldn't agree more with that harsh summation and there is no need to further amplify that utter failure.
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Mass jab hopes a crucial test for Prayut
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 31/05/2021
» Despite reassurances from Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha and Public Health Minister Anutin Charnvirakul that the mass Covid-19 vaccinations for people over 60 and those suffering from seven non-communicable underlying diseases across the country will proceed as scheduled on June 7, scepticism remains strong among many about whether this administration can still be trusted after repeated blunders in the handling of the pandemic.
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One man alone can't solve Covid crisis
Oped, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 10/05/2021
» On April 27, the cabinet made Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha Thailand's most powerful man, by giving him single command over every aspect of the nation's effort to tackle Covid-19 and the treatment of those infected by the disease.
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TV debate puts protesters on the spot
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 30/11/2020
» The talk of the town this weekend was the debate on Thai Rath TV's Direct Question with Jomquan talk show on Friday night on the Crown Property Regulations Act, between Dr Arnond Sakworawich of the National Institute Development Administration (Nida) and Ms Panusaya "Rung" Sitthijirawattanakul, one of the firebrand protest leaders of the Khana Ratsadon movement and a student at Thammasat University's Faculty of Social Science and Humanities.
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Paranoia wreaking economic havoc
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 20/07/2020
» We have taken pride in the fact that Thailand has not had any local transmission of Covid-19 for more than 50 consecutive days and that our success in stemming the spread of the virus has won worldwide praise.
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