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Surapong’s recipe for more trouble
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 06/12/2013
» Thursday night’s candlelight ceremony at Sanam Luang to celebrate His Majesty the King’s 86th birthday led by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was shown live by all free-to-air TV stations and attracted a big crowd, mostly government officials - but it was less than half the story.
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.
Floods may prove a blessing for rice scheme
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 14/10/2013
» The Straits Times of Singapore reported on Saturday that India has overtaken Thailand as the biggest rice supplier to Singapore _ the first time this is believed to have happened.
Government brings trouble on itself
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 21/06/2013
» Resentful farmers angered by the cutback in the rice pledging price have threatened to protest in various parts of the country, putting the government in the hot seat with the possibility it may have to backtrack to appease its major voter base.
The 'mole' is inside the government
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 07/06/2013
» Deputy Prime Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi is no stranger to controversy. It could be said he has a penchant for courting controversy, and a tongue so sharp and quick that even bad-mouthed fresh market vendors envy him.
Chalerm's no-show in deep South perplexing
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 09/04/2013
» Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung's procrastination about visiting the far South, his lame excuses, paint him in a bad light - especially in light of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's visit on Sunday following the slaying of the Yala deputy governor last week.
Wrong election forecasts a lesson for pollsters
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 05/03/2013
» To err is human. But to err on the scale of the wrong predictions made for the Bangkok governor’s election by all but one of the major pollsters is not just an embarrassment, it's a disaster for their credibility.
Caution needed in far South
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 14/02/2013
» There is good cause for many of us to feel proud of, and to commend, the marines at a make-shift base in a rubber plantaion in Narathiwat’s Bacho district who fought off the major onslaught by well-armed Islamist insurgents early Wednesday morning.
Imprisoned red-shirts merely expendable pawns
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 01/02/2013
» It should not be surprising that the demand for amnesty for jailed red-shirt protesters has been given the cold shoulder by both the government and the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship, because the government's political stability is deemed more important than the plight of the prisoners.
Chalerm may have got off on the wrong foot
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 22/10/2012
» 'Reconciliation or challenging for a fight?" So read the headline of Thai Rath's editorial on Saturday, Oct 20, in direct reference to Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubamrung's staging of a "deliberative dialogue" session in Nakhon Ratchsima province next Sunday in a bid to build consensus towards national reconciliation.