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    Patronage may end up costing us dear

    News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 04/01/2021

    » Thais should have enjoyed and celebrated the arrival of the New Year, but many have stayed at home and celebrated quietly with their love ones instead, not knowing this time around how long it will take before this second wave of Covid-19 will be contained. Forget about the economic recovery or the ambitious plan of turning Thailand into a safe haven for foreign tourists wanting to escape the contagion.

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    FAO warning shows folly of rice pledging

    News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 11/02/2013

    » Just as the media and the public are losing interest in the government's populist rice pledging scheme, the latest report from the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) warns that Thailand may be running out of space to store rice.

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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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    Patience can lead to virtue and rotten rice

    News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 15/10/2012

    » Taxpayers should not be surprised if they are occasionally confused by the conflicting statements made by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her ministers, Commerce Minister Boonsong Teriyapirom in particular, pertaining to anything related to the rice pledging scheme _ because the government is treating everything as a trade secret which must be kept confidential and disclosed to the public only at the end of next year.

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