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Sympathise with farmers, not PM
News, Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 10/02/2014
» 'I would like to tell the prime minister: You have children and so do I. When you wake up, your child has everything to eat, but my children have nothing to eat. There are two papaya trees at our home. The first tree has been stripped bare of all its fruit, which were turned into som tum. There is not even pla ra [fermented fish to make som tum] left. I don't know what to do next."
Why pay them pensions?
Veera Prateepchaikul, Published on 06/09/2013
» A life-long pension of 15,000 baht a month for former lawmakers may not seem a huge amount of money these days, but the handout begs a big question: is it justifiable to continue paying these politicians, who are already better off than most people in this country.