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  • OPINION

    Public debt and Thaksin's oil

    News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 23/01/2012

    » One of the most controversial issues at the moment, which has taken on the life of a conspiracy by opponents of ousted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, concerns a plan to sell 2% of the Finance Ministry's stakes in PTT Plc and Thai Airways International to the government-controlled Vayupak Fund in order to free PTT and THAI from the status of being state enterprises and to reduce the government's public debt so it can borrow more.

  • OPINION

    Buffet cabinet and New Thailand

    Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 24/01/2012

    » About 100 Pheu Thai MPs are lining up, waiting for their turn at a cabinet seat, redolent of a large group of diners eagerly lining up at a buffet table which can seat only 35 people at a time.

  • OPINION

    Nitirat has gone too far

    Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 26/01/2012

    » The Nitirat scholars have made no secret of their opposition to the lese majeste law, but their latest proposal regarding the highest institution has overstepped the line and provoked uproar among the military and within pro-monarchy academia.

  • OPINION

    Another fatal shooting of the innocent?

    Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 31/01/2012

    » It seems likely that at least some of the dead and injured on the pickup truck fired on by paramilitary rangers in Pattani on Sunday night are innocent people.

  • OPINION

    Communication blame-game helps no one

    News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 30/01/2012

    » The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration came under heavy fire by Pheu Thai ministers over its alleged foot dragging in implementing flood prevention projects when the cabinet met last Tuesday. At the meeting, Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra urged all relevant agencies responsible for flood prevention to start working immediately and to show some results in two weeks time, otherwise the budgets already allocated to them would be recalled.

  • OPINION

    Tense standoff at Thammasat over lese majeste law

    Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 02/02/2012

    » My sympathy to Thammasat University rector Somkit Lertpaithoon who is in the unfortunate position of being caught in the middle of a potentially hostile confrontation between the Nitirat group and their supporters on the one hand and their opponents on the other over the lese majeste law, or Section 112 of the Criminal Code.

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