Bangkok Post: Opinion

Sunday, November 25, 2012

A rice deal that never existed in the first place

By Veera Preteepchaikul

The truth is out, that the Commerce Ministry's claim of a 15-million-tonne government-to-government rice deal with China over three years is anything but real.There is a popular Thai saying that goes along these lines: “A dead elephant cannot be covered up by lotus leaves.”This is exactly ...

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• 26 January 2009

  Thaksin's old broken record

  By Veera Preteepchaikul

   BangkokPost.com  Those of you who are fans or no-fans of exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra should have, by now, learned what he had said during his phone-in interview from somewhere abroad with the Dstation of the United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship on Sunday.As ...

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• 19 January 2009

  Reading between the lines

  By Veera Preteepchaikul

   BangkokPost.comAs a young reporter a few decades ago, I was taught by my editor to try to ``read between the lines'' certain photos that become available when the country is under an unusual situation. On the surface, the pictures may look quite normal but they can contain some hidden messages ...

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• 08 January 2009

  The red shirts and the Law of Karma

  By Veera Preteepchaikul

   January 8, 2009 The image of two red-shirt leaders, Jatuporn Promphan and Nathawut Saikua, taking cover from missiles hurled against them by their 'rebel' red-shirt supporters at an election campaign rally in the northeastern province of Buri Ramon January 7 would be unthinkable just a ...

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